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Raymond Hakim, MDCM’76

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Member, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Advancement Board

Raymond Hakim, MDCM’76; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Member, Faculty of Medicine Advancement Board

I am a physician Made by McGill. I applied to McGill medical school after many years of working as an engineer at Hydro Quebec. I was surprised when I was accepted! McGill taught me the importance of combining knowledge and compassion; not just talk to patients but also to listen to them. Later I specialized in nephrology because I was told by a McGill nephrologist that the smartest people in internal medicine went into nephrology! So I am also a Made by McGill nephrologist.