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Bruce McCreary, obituary, intellectual and developmental disabilities, dual diagnosis, university education
Dr. Bruce McCreary whose entire career was devoted to working with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families passed away at Kingston General Hospital on November 15, 2017 at the age of 78. Dr. McCreary was raised on a farm near Smiths Falls, Ontario, and he attributed his career path to a summer job working at Rideau Regional Centre where many years later he became Clinical Director. Bruce completed his medical and core Psychiatry training at Queen's University followed by graduate work in Child Psychiatry and Mental Retardation at the University of Western Ontario and at the Mental Retardation and Human Genetics Kennedy-Galton Centre in St. Alban's England.
Bruce was committed to his work in the field of developmental disabilities and conducted clinics in Kingston across eastern Ontario for 50 years. At the same time, Bruce was active in work at Queen's University as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry. In 1977, he established the Division of Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Psychiatry. By 1995, the Division had grown to include social work, psychology, rehabilitation, law, genetics, nursing & family medicine. Today, the Queen's Division of Developmental Disabilities is only one of two...