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1946
DIED
2019
C. WARRINER Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for C. WARRINER
5 Entries
Ellen Dempsey
January 18, 2020
I am very sad to read of Brians death. He was a fine man. I met Dr Warriner in the 1990s while working on Marion Merrell Dow clinical trials with Anzemet or dolesetron mesylate. He was an investigator in the post-operative nausea and vomiting trial. I kept in touch with him periodically over the past 25 years. He had kindly given me anesthesia guidance prior to two surgeries in 2011 and 2013. Always responding to my emails promptly, offering his expertise generously and supportively. I thought it odd that I had no response to my email with Christmas greetings last month. I wrote to him today once again to seek his trusted guidance and when I looked to verify that his email address had not changed, I came across his obituary. I was shocked and saddened. I can well imagine that his family will miss him greatly. He was kind, caring and respected by all who had the pleasure of getting to know him. A man of integrity and the highest personal and scientific standards.
Ellen Dempsey
Ssemmanda hannington
June 6, 2019
I met dr warriner when he came to Uganda and he mentored us during our residence in anaestehesiology. He was a true teacher and a wonderful mentor and his teachings shall forever be with me as I practice anaestehesiologyMay his soul rest in eternal peace.
Dr ssemmanda hannington Consultant anaesthesiologistAga khan hospital, kisumu
Erasmus Okello; For Ugandan Anaesthesia & Critical Care Medicine Family
June 5, 2019
Brian C. Warriner has been a great friend, professional father, mentor and inspirational force to most in our Ugandan anaesthesia family. Brian's legacy as a highly respected long-serving professor of anaesthesia, world-renown leader, researcher and educator among others cannot be recounted enough. To us in Uganda, to whose Anaesthesia training and practice his selfless, generous and tireless work helped grow, Brian was a gift.
In some sort of predestination, Brian heard of Uganda from one of his staff members who had visited earlier and spoken highly of the Anaesthesia promise in this particular region that would flourish with a little more support. His journey to Uganda birthed a wonderful relationship with the department of Anaesthesia at Makerere University where Brian became family.
During his annual visits to Uganda, he enjoyed teaching and mentoring students and faculty, as well as serving patients in perioperative areas. His greatest love of all however, was preparing new residents for a journey of academic and clinical training and career in the field of anaesthesia, sharing his vast experience and lessons in the process, many of which continue to shape careers of his beneficiaries to date. Through this he met and inspired a host of trainees, many of whom now serve as the present and future of Ugandan Anaesthesia.
Brian was very instrumental in setting up and maintaining the Makerere-UBC collaboration which created further opportunities for Ugandan trainees to visit, observe and subspecialise in Canada expanding our horizons even further.
Even after his retirement, Brian sought and planned to visit Uganda one last time to commune with his family here, but sadly his health could not allow it.
To Brian's surviving family, thank you so much for sharing him with us, for supporting him in his endeavors that brought so much promise and opportunity to our world. We convey our heartfelt condolences to you and pray for lasting strength through all the days to come.
To you Brian, words cannot express the sadness we feel knowing we will not have the opportunity again to show you just how much we learnt from you and how our world is and will be so much better because of you. Yours has been a long journey in which, through your effortless kindness, generosity and dedication to leave a mark in the world, you touched lives all around the world and we are forever honoured, even lucky, to have been part of that family. Our lasting gratitude abounds forever, and we embrace the honour of forever being your living legacy. Thank you for making us better. We will forever miss you and in our lives shall you always hold a special place. Thank you for being you. Thank you for being such a great inspiration. Rest in eternal peace Professor.
Jeff McEwen
June 3, 2019
My memories of Brian are mostly through Beavers, skiing, and visiting their house in the 80's and 90's. I remember driving up to Silverstar listening to classical music. The time Brian thought he had a brain tumor because the glue on his ski goggles smelled like vomit. Feeding Whiskey-jacks out of our hands on a Beaver camping trip. He also took Andrew and I to Dino-town one Saturday but we couldn't bring pop into his car. We had to finish it in the parking lot. Great father, Beaver leader, and someone to look up to as a child. He will be missed.
- Jeff McEwen
Jim McEwen
June 3, 2019
I and my entire family were deeply saddened to hear of Brian's passing. Our families had many happy and memorable experiences together as our children were growing up. He was a good friend, a great father, a talented fellow Beaver leader (who was only somewhat miffed at a camp when he found his sleeping bag mysteriously filled with popcorn), and an experienced and enthusiastic skier (although we realized that some of the times he paused mid-run to enjoy the scenery at Mount Baker might have also provided opportunities for him to catch his breath). My wife and each of our three children have very happy memories of Brian with Cameron, Andrew and Sally. Later in life, our paths crossed again, as Brian and I did some surgical tourniquet studies together, and his advice was invaluable. I think he particularly enjoyed presenting a paper in Tampa with me once, because the occasion was celebrated by visiting a restaurant that served up to 40 ounce steaks! Throughout it all, we became very aware of the many people who he helped, and whose lives he changed.
Very saddened to hear the news of an early end to a life well lived. Eileen and I hope to attend his celebration of life.
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