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George Anis Awad died on 24 May 2007, at the Toronto Hospital. He had struggled courageously with a relentlessly deteriorating heart condition for several years and succumbed quite suddenly in hospital in the loving company of his wife, Macy, and his two children, Melia and Tarek. He and all of us who cared about him were desperately hoping for a heart to become available for transplant surgery. This would have saved his life, but it was not to be.
George was a dedicated husband, father, child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst who was loved and respected by many for his passionate commitment to his family, friends, and the world of ideas and ideals.
George was born in 1942 in Acre,1 Palestine, and left in 1948 when the state of Israel was established. His family settled in Beirut, Lebanon, where George, the fourth of five siblings, flourished as the scholar of the family. After completing medical school at the American University of Beirut, he came to the University of Rochester, New York, to do his psychiatric training. It was here that we met and became friends and colleagues. After his child psychiatry training at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he came to Toronto to work in the Family Court Clinic, a division of the Clarke Institute at that time. He eventually became director of that program. He