{"id":767,"date":"2015-04-08T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=767"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:55:34","slug":"archives-of-dr-charles-scriver-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/archives-of-dr-charles-scriver-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives of Dr. Charles Scriver now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aoc.mcgill.ca\/sites\/aoc.mcgill.ca\/files\/imagecache\/Large\/charles_scriver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aoc.mcgill.ca\/sites\/aoc.mcgill.ca\/files\/imagecache\/Large\/charles_scriver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from McGill&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/aoc.mcgill.ca\">Alumni Online Community<\/a><\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An important new collection for contemporary history of medicine is now open for consultation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.mcgill.ca\/\">McGill University Archives<\/a>. The papers of Montreal pediatrician and geneticist Dr. Charles R. Scriver were donated to the Archives in 2013 and serve as a record of his 50-year career in biogenetics. His over 600 publications extend from the metabolic aspects of genetic disease in infants to bioinformatics and population genetics. Dr. Scriver\u2019s research in the scientific community is thus situated at the nexus of genetics and pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scriver received his primary education at the Lower College of Canada, earned his Bachelor of Arts <em>cum laude<\/em> (1951) and M.D.C.M. (1955) at McGill\u2019s Faculty of Medicine, and underwent clinical training at McGill and Harvard University (1955-58). From 1961 to 1966, Scriver was an appointed Markle Scholar within the Department of Pediatrics, a position which poised him to accept a full professorship of Pediatrics beginning in 1969. During this time, Dr. Scriver helped found the DeBelle Laboratory, a biochemical genetics lab under the Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Research Institute. Scriver\u2019s work on vitamin D\u2019s impact on newborn metabolic disorders (particularly rickets) during this period led to more stringent screening processes for phenylketonuria (PKU) and hypothyroidism in infants, and to the breakthrough introduction of vitamin D in Quebec grocery store milk. He is currently the Alva Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics in the McGill Faculty of Medicine and is honored in the Canadian Science and Engineering <a href=\"http:\/\/cstmuseum.techno-science.ca\/en\/hall-of-fame\/hall-of-fame-charles-robert-scriver.php\">Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"email:refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca\">contact <\/a>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.mcgill.ca\/\">McGill University Archives<\/a> for more information or to consult the archives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Further reading:<\/em><\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"212.97\">Christopher Canning, George Weisz, Andrea Tone, and Alberto Cambrosio, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/849546091\">Medical Genetics at McGill: The History of a Pioneering Research Group<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine<\/em>, 30, no. 1 (2013): 31-54.<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"212.97\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"citation journal\">George Fedak and Nam-Soo Kim. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/264578262\">Canadian Pioneers. Dr. Charles Robert Scriver<\/a>&#8220;. <i>Genome<\/i> <b>51, no. <\/b>5 (May 2008): iii\u2013iv. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important new collection for contemporary history of medicine is now open for consultation in the McGill University Archives. The papers of Montreal pediatrician and geneticist Dr. Charles R. Scriver were donated to the Archives in 2013 and serve as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/archives-of-dr-charles-scriver-now-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}