Alexander D. Blackader
{{short description|Canadian-American pediatrician}}
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Alexander Dougall Blackader (June 19, 1847 – March 14, 1932) was a Canadian-American pediatrician.
Biography
Alexander D. Blackader was born in Montreal on June 19, 1847.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55117249/whose-birthday-is-this/ |title=Whose Birthday Is This? |newspaper=Calgary Herald |page=6 |date=1913-06-19 |access-date=2020-07-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} He earned first-class honors at McGill University and studied at St Thomas' Hospital in London.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dy9if3Yix8UC&pg=PA591 |title=Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time, Volumes 6-7 |publisher=International Press Limited |page=591 |year=1914 |access-date=2020-07-10 |via=Google Books}}
He was the president of the American Pediatric Society for 1892–93.[https://www.aps1888.org/past-presidents/ Past Presidents.] American Pediatric Society. Retrieved 14 November 2018. He gave the 1929 Bradshaw Lecture.{{cite journal|author=Blackader, A. D.|title=On the varying virulence of micro-organisms in infectious disease|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=22|issue=1|year=1930|pages=97–100|pmc=381641|pmid=20317677}}
He died in Montreal on March 14, 1932.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55117066/dr-alexander-d-blackader/ |title=Dr. Alexander D. Blackader |newspaper=Hartford Courant |location=Montreal, Quebec |agency=AP |page=4 |date=1932-03-15 |access-date=2020-07-10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite web |title=Biography – BLACKADER, ALEXANDER DOUGALL – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/blackader_alexander_dougall_16E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |access-date=28 October 2020}}
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Category:Presidents of the American Pediatric Society
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States
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Category:Canadian pediatricians
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