{{Short description|Canadian neurologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Donald Calne | image = <!--(filename only)--> | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|05|04}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | fields = Neurology | workplaces = Retired Professor Emeritus | alma_mater = University of Oxford | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Killam Research Prize,<br>Starr Award, Officer of the Order of Canada, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Hon degree UBC | religion = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | footnotes = }} '''Donald Brian Calne''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (born May 4, 1936) is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/4091/donald-calne|title=Donald Calne &#124; Penguin Random House|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/author/calnedonald|title=Donald Calne|website=www.librarything.com|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54033/la_id/1.htm |title=Error |access-date=2009-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306184500/https://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54033/la_id/1.htm |archive-date=2016-03-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography== Born in London, England, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Oxford.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He worked in England and at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland until 1980.<ref name=ubc/> From 1981 to 2001, he was the Director of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre at the University of British Columbia and a professor of neurology.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He is a member of the National Parkinson Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://medicine.ucalgary.ca/events/langston |title=2008 Donald Calne Lectureship &#124; Faculty of Medicine &#124; University of Calgary |accessdate=2009-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210911/http://medicine.ucalgary.ca/events/langston |archivedate=2011-07-06 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.parkinson.org/Page.aspx?pid=395]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parkinsons.ubc.ca/Dr.D.B.Calne.htm |title=Dr. D.B. Calne |accessdate=2009-11-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210311/http://www.parkinsons.ubc.ca/Dr.D.B.Calne.htm |archivedate=2011-07-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificparkinsons.org/resources.html |title=PacificParkinsons.org > Expert Resources |accessdate=2009-11-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827161457/http://www.pacificparkinsons.org/resources.html |archivedate=2008-08-27 }}</ref> In 2002, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia.<ref name=ubc/> He was a member of the Steering Committee of the 1st World Parkinson Congress (WPC) in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldpdcongress.org/Program/2006_speakers.cfm |title=WPC :: WPC 2006 Featured Speakers |accessdate=2009-11-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827094709/http://www.worldpdcongress.org/Program/2006_speakers.cfm |archivedate=2011-08-27 }}</ref>

He was the first researcher to use L dopa in the UK and the first to show how to use synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease. He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears.<ref name=ubc>{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites12.html|title=UBC Archives - Honorary Degree Citations - 2000-02|website=www.library.ubc.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/1580096-progress-in-the-treatment-of-parkinsonism-advances-in-neurology|title=Progress In The Treatment Of Parkinsonism|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref><ref>http://www.bcic.ca/recognition/awards/past-recipients/previous-recipients/427-health-sciences{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1999, he published the book, ''Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior''.<ref>Calne, Donald B. (1999). Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior. New York, Pantheon Books. {{ISBN|978-0-375-40351-4}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotalone.com/authors.php?aid%3D920 |title=Author: Donald B. Calne, M.D. |accessdate=2009-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223161448/http://www.enotalone.com/authors.php?aid=920 |archivedate=2007-02-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.human-nature.com/odmh/cognitiveb.html|title=PowWeb|website=www.human-nature.com|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=290|title=Metapsychology Online Reviews|website=metapsychology.mentalhelp.net|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref>

He married Susan M. Wigfield, who has been a nurse and co-ordinator at the UBC hospital’s movement disorders clinic. They worked with people with Parkinson's disease together for 25 years.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/parkinsons-disease-a-mystery Parkinson's Disease a Mystery] at The Canadian Encyclopedia</ref><ref>[http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v41/n2/pubmed/ng.293.html]{{dead link|date=September 2019}}</ref><ref>[http://www.abaa.org/books/273995252.html]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==See also== * List of neuroscientists * List of neurologists

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== * [http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=327 Profile] * {{Cite book|title=Canadian Who's Who|year=2004|author=Elizabeth Lumley|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8892-5|page=199}}

==External links== * [http://www.brain.ubc.ca Brain Research Centre] at the University of British Columbia * [http://www.parkinson.org National Parkinson Foundation]

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