Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 16, 2010
• Invested on: November 04, 2011

A caring and compassionate physician, Robert Taylor has brought humanitarian medical relief, as well as surgical training, to underserved populations around the world. Undertaking assignments with the Canadian Baptist Ministries, and later, with the International Red Cross, he travelled the remote rivers of Bolivia to minister to Indigenous peoples, and to rural missions in the Congo to provide surgical care and training. He has established courses to teach essential surgical skills to health care practitioners in Malawi, Zambia, Haiti and Guyana. He also founded the outreach International Surgery Committee of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons.