Bernard Langer

Bernard Langer (May 23, 1932 — February 23, 2022) was a Canadian surgeon and educator. In 2015, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Biography Born in Toronto, he received an MD (1956) from the University of Toronto, interned at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH) and completed training as a surgeon at the University of Toronto. Langer subsequently pursued training in oncology at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston and in liver transplantation at Brigham Hospital in Boston. and in 2015 was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame(2).

Langer married Ryna Manson; the couple had four children including Jacob Langer, himself a notable general and paediatric surgeon and the former Chief of General and Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.