Richard Goldbloom

Dr. Richard Goldbloom
Dr. Richard Goldbloom in Toronto, spring 1990
Born	(1924-12-16) December 16, 1924 (age 92) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Pediatrician/University Chancellor
Spouse(s)	Ruth Goldbloom (née Schwartz) (1946—w2012)
Children	Dr. Alan Goldbloom, Dr. David Goldbloom, Ms. Barbara Goldbloom
Parent(s)	Dr. Alton Goldbloom and Annie Goldbloom (née Ballon)

Richard Ballon Goldbloom, OC ONS (born December 16, 1924) is a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston. From 1964 to 1967, he was an associate professor at McGill University and a physician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. From 1967 to 1985, he was the head of Dalhousie University's Department of Pediatrics. He was the first physician-in-chief and director of research at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 1975 he became the founding president of the Halifax-Dartmouth Waterfront Development Corp., a federal and provincial agency that worked towards restoration and development of the area's waterfront, until 1980, when he was unexplainably removed by the Nova Scotia government. A classical pianist, Goldbloom was the president of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s. From 1983 to 1985, he was Chairman of the Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee and since 1989 he has been the Chairman of the Maritimes Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee.

On December 29, 1986, was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was invested into the order on April 29, 1987 for