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| name               = Eva Waddell Mader Macdonald
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| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1902|10|07}}
| birth_place        = [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1997|4|27|1902|10|7}}
| education          = Dalhousie University (M.D., 1927), University of Toronto (DPH, 1929)
| occupation         = Medical professional
| years_active       = 1929–1978
| employer           = Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto
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| office        = Chancellor of the [[University of Toronto]]
| term_start    = 1974
| term_end      = 1977
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'''Eva Waddell Mader Macdonald''' (7 October 1902 – 27 April 1997) was a Canadian medical professional at the [[Women's College Hospital]]. She began as a medical professor in hygiene before becoming the Director of Laboratories at WCH from 1945 to 1952.<ref name="Notes">"Notes: Dr. Eva Mader Macdonald." Archives of Women's College Hospital.</ref> Outside of medicine, Macdonald was the chancellor of the [[University of Toronto]] from 1974 to 1977.
==Early life and education==
In 1902, Macdonald was born in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]].<ref name=cmaj1979>{{cite journal|title=Personal File|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|date=18 August 1979|volume=121|issue=4|pages=458–487|pmc=1704384|pmid=20313340}}</ref> In 1927, she graduated from [[Dalhousie University]] and went to the [[University of Toronto]] with a health scholarship.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Locals and Personals|journal=The Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin|date=November 1928|volume=7|issue=11 |page=520|url=https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/handle/10222/12752}}</ref>  She received a Diploma in Public Health from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine in 1929.<ref name="Notes" />
==Career==
In 1927, Macdonald began her medical career as an intern at [[Nova Scotia Sanatorium]].<ref name=cmaj1979/><ref>{{cite journal|title=New Brunswick|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|date=August 1927|volume=17|issue=8|pages=971–972|pmc=407528}}</ref> After a brief stint at Nova Scotia Sanatorium, Macdonald began working at the [[Women's College Hospital]] in 1929. At the Women's College Hospital, Macdonald was a medical professor in hygiene for the University of Toronto until 1933.<ref name=cmaj1979/> During her career, she held multiple positions for the Women's College Hospital, including Hospital Bacteriologist (1939–1945), Director of Laboratories (1945 to 1952), and Director of Hospital Health (1953–1968).<ref name="Notes"/><ref>"Profile: Eva M. Macdonald." Archives of Women’s College Hospital. 13 April 1978</ref> During her time at Women's College Hospital, Macdonald co-developed, with Marion Hilliard, a simplified [[Pap test]] in partnership with W. L. Robinson of the Banting Institute.<ref name="Notes"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Celebrating Women’s History Month at WCH|url=https://www.womenscollegehospital.ca/news-and-publications/connect/celebrating-women’s-history-month-at-wch|last=Gardiner|first=Heather|date=28 October 2019|website=Women’s College Hospital}}</ref> Alternatively, Macdonald began working as a private practitioner in 1952 and continued until 1962.<ref>{{cite web|title=Eva Mader MacDonald fonds|url=https://memoryns.ca/eva-mader-macdonald-fonds|website=MemoryNS|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref>
In 1963, Macdonald created an initiative called Operation Recall to convince former women doctors to return to their careers.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shorter|first1=Edward|title=Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals|date=2013|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442645950|page=552|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXa1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA911|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> Outside of her health career, Macdonald replaced [[Pauline McGibbon]] as the chancellor of the University of Toronto in 1974.<ref name=brandonsun/> Macdonald held the position of chancellor until 1977 and retired in 1978.<ref name=cmaj1979/>
==Awards and honours==
In 1974, Macdonald was named alumna of the year of [[Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Alumnus/a of the Year|url=https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/alumni/awards/gala-homecoming/alumnus-of-the-year.html|website=Dalhouse University|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> In 1975, Macdonald was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] by [[Mount Saint Vincent University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary Degrees|url=http://www.msvu.ca/en/home/aboutus/universityprofile/senate/honorarydegrees/default.aspx|website=Mount Saint Vincent University|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Macdonald was married with two children.<ref name=brandonsun>{{cite news|title=New Career at 71|work=The Brandon Sun|date=10 August 1974|page=11}}</ref>
==Death==
Macdonald died on 24 April 1997.<ref name="Notes"/>
==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/macdonald-eva-mader-oral-history Eva Mader Macdonald oral history interview] held at the [https://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services]
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