Dr. Colin Powell
Dr. Colin Powell is Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary, and moved here in August 2006 from Dalhousie University. Before this he was Professor and Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University and Director of the Centre for Health Care of the Elderly at Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He received his medical education at the University of London and then in Internal Medicine at Oxford and Glasgow. He trained in Geriatric Medicine in Glasgow. He was Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine, University of Liverpool from l973 to l981 when he emigrated to become Head of the Department of Geriatric Medicine at St Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba until 1993.
His published research interests have included the detection of unreported disability in old age, aspects of aphasia, depression, frailty, removal of physical restraints, the delivery of health care to frail older adults, and Parkinsonism in Old Age. He was twice President of the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba and was on the Board of Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia and the Board of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Ageing (University of Western Ontario). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Age and Ageing. He has been Chair of the Health and Biological Sciences Division of the Canadian Association on Gerontology. In 1995-6, he was Acting Head of the Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University. He was President of the Nova Scotia Society of Internal Medicine and President of the Gerontology Association of Nova Scotia. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Member Award of the Canadian Geriatrics Society. He is a member of the Advisory Board of CARP (Canadian Association of the 50 Plus).
In 2003-4, he undertook a seven month sabbatical studying Parkinson's Disease and related disorders in Old Age (Universities of Alberta and British Columbia).
He was formerly a magistrate in the City of Liverpool. He has occasionally appeared as an expert witness in cases involving restraints, dementia and mandatory retirement. He was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.