Honours and Recognition
       The achievements of Charles Hodge was the first Canadian to be elected a Fellow of the Biological Photographic Association (1958). He was given the first William Gordon Award (1969) for outstanding biophotography in Canada. He was winner of the gold medal (1970) of the combined Royal Colleges of Physicians, Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (the only photographer in North America to have this distinction), and a Louis Schmidt Laureate (1975), the highest honour of the BPA. He became Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (1984) and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Medical Illustrators of Great Britain (1990). In 1992 he was appointed to the Order of Canada.

During the latter stage of his career, Charlie worked diligently to catalogue on computer more than 200,000 colour and black and white negatives in Neurophotography to make these more accessible for the research and clinical staff of the Institute. This collection includes detailed photographs of some 4,000 seizure operations with cortical stimulation points, undoubtedly the most extensive record of its kind in the field of epilepsy surgery.

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         Hundreds of Fellows of the Neuro at the end of their training were presented with the familiar photograph taken by Charles Hodge of the MNI building in 1954. This will continue to remind them of Charlie's great talents, his key role in providing the photographic records for their research and clinical studies, and his traditional photographs of the Neuro staff that were documented in each annual report over many years. And beyond that, we will recall his warmth to his friends and his cheerful fortitude in overcoming substantial handicaps to become one of the best scientific photographers of his era.

A Charles Hodge Memorial Fund has been established at the MNI to which many of Charlie's friends and admirers have already contributed.

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Thanks to Marcus Arts and the Neurophotography staff for graphic Web design © William Feindel, 2001