Dr. frederick "Buddy" McIntosh to receive excellence in medicine award
Dr. Frederick "Buddy" McIntosh
KCOB and Toronto Chapter Life Director, Dr. Frederick "Buddy" McIntosh will be presented with the Excellence in Medicine award at the 2009 African Canadian Achievement Award ceremony on Saturday May 23, 2009 at the Jane Mallet Theatre in Toronto.
Frederick (Buddy) McIntosh O.D., MB BS (London) FRCS(C)
Born in Kingston, Jamaica 4th Feb. 1937.
Attended Kingston College 1948, graduating November 1955.
Worked at North Street Pathological Laboratory as a medical technologist for the Government of Jamaica for three years from 1955 - 1958.
Attended University College of the West Indies (UCWI) starting 4th October 1958, graduating in medicine April 30, 1965. Interned at Kingston Public Hospital from May 1965 to December 1966.
Worked at the Kingston Public Hospital, the English – speaking Caribbean’s largest medical unit, and the University of the West Indies Hospital (UWI) until Sept.1968.
Did post graduate studies in Otolaryngology, Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery at University of Toronto from 30th Oct., 1968 to 1972.
Obtained Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) (FRCS(C) in November 1973, and American Diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology in the USA November 1973, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1976.
He is one of the two founding charter members of Kingston College Old Boys Association (KCOBA) 9th Dec. 1973. He was made a Life Member of the Executive six years ago.
While a medical student he received a citation from the Principal of the University of the West Indies, Sir Phillip Sherlock for meritorious actions while accompanying Sir John Golding on a medical mission to Haiti after it was hit by the Hurricane Flora in October 1963.
He has received many awards by several organizations for community service in Toronto and Jamaica. He was V.P. of the Caribbean Chapter of the Canadian Diabetic Assn. from its inception in 1992 to 2004.
He has served as V.P. of the Daphne Dacosta Memorial Foundation from 1987 to 2000. This Foundation delivered health care in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Also to help in the prevention of breast cancer, cervical cancer and prostate cancer, by encouraging mammograms, pap smears in women, and PSA testing in men. It also gave mammography machines and a mobile medical van for immunization and vaccination purposes.
He has received an award from the Heritage Singers at their 20th Anniversary in 1997 for involvement over the years as a voice consultant to the group and again at their 30th Anniversary in 2007, for involvement over the years.
For contribution to medicine and community service in Toronto, he was invested with the Order of Distinction (OD) by the Jamaican government in October 1995.
Has been a Consultant Otolaryngologist at the Humber Memorial Hospital, now known as the Humber River Regional Hospital, since March, 1974.
No stranger to hurricanes, he was back in Jamaica four days after Hurricane Gilbert devastated Jamaica on 12th August, 1988, with medicines, antibiotics and vaccines.
His final last hope and desire is to do some ENT consulting work in Jamaica during his retirement years with his son, who is a physician at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay.
