## [#  Sir William Osler Professorship 

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**[Endowed chair](http://eye.hms.harvard.edu/professorships/)** established in 1984 by the late Susan Morse Hilles, who named the professorship for her ancestor **Sir William Osler**, a Canadian physician, pathologist, educator and historian who has been called the “father of modern medicine.”