Personal History

1923 Born in Kuling, China and brought up in Shanghai. He was the youngest of four children. His parents, George Christopher Willis and Jean Ogston Malloch, were missionaries and operated several Christian book shops in Shanghai .

1948 Graduated from McGill University Medical School

1948 Married Margaret Hanna, a newly graduated nurse from the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

1949-1950 Worked in Bermuda at the King Edward Vll Hospital

1950-1951 Worked in Cartwright, Labrador, Canada with the Grenfell Mission

1951-1954 Worked at the Montreal General Hospital and Veteran's Hospital and completed his training in Internal Medicine

1953 Won the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons' medal for the best research essay in medicine in Canada, entitled "Atherosclerosis: The Role of Physical Stress, the Ground Substance and Ascorbic Acid."

1954-1955 Received his Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, England and obtained membership with The Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.

1956-1959 Worked at The Singapore General Hospital

1959-1967 Established a Christian Medical Clinic in Sandakan, Borneo and built a hospital in the jungle to serve the Kadazan people. The Laboratory Manual was the result of his medical experience in Borneo.

1967-1971 Returned to Canada and worked as an internist in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

1971-1975 Moved to Montreal , Quebec and resumed his liaison with The Montreal General Hospital, working in the Emergency Department

1975-1980 Moved to Okinawa, Japan and became Professor of Medicine at the Unversity of Hawaii's Post-graduate Medical Education Program at the Chubu Hospital. He began writing "Bedside Medicine" during this period in Okinawa.

1980-1984 Returned to Montreal, Quebec to work in the ER Department at The Montreal General Hospital

1984-1985 Moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to teach medicine at The Black Lion Hospital under a McGill University satellite program

1985-1990 Moved to Maizuru City, Japan and taught medicine to Japanese doctors at The Maizuru Municipal Hospital.

1990-1992 Partially retired to Shawville, Quebec and provided consultations in Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases at the Pontiac Community Hospital

1992-2012 Fully retired from medicine

Throughout his working years, Dr. G C Willis preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was married to Margaret for over sixty-three years and has eight children, sixteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. His eldest son, Dr. George Christopher Willis Jr., is also an internist and currently works in Singapore.

Dr. Willis passed out of this life, and into eternal life, on January 2, 2012, in his 89th year.

"Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. "

The book of Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 1-2, King James version of the Holy Bible

" I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing."

The second Letter to Timothy, chapter 4 verses 7-8, King James version of the Holy Bible