Michael C. Klein , M.D., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P., F.A.A.P. (Neonatal/Perinatal), F.C.P.S.,Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at UBC, Senior Scientist Emeritus Child and Family Research Institute in Vancouver
Best known for his RCT of episiotomy, demonstrating that it caused the  trauma that it was supposed to prevent, credited with contributing to large drop in routine episiotomy use and a fall in rectal trauma. And as PI on a Canadian National Study of the attitudes and beliefs of all maternity care providers and women they serve. Teaches at UBC in family practice and midwifery and is on the editorial board of BIRTH.
Head of a McGill teaching Centre and Department of Family Medicine at a McGill teaching hospital in Montreal for 17 years, Head of Department of Family Practice at Children’s and Women’s in Vancouver for 10.
He has received Morris Wood Award for Lifetime Contributions to Primary Care Research: North American Primary Care Research Group, Family Physician Researcher of the Year: College Family Physicians of Canada,  Founders Award from DONA, Research Award from Lamaze International, Award for Lifetime Contributions to Family Practice Research, College of Family Physicians of Canada. He is on the Board of DONA.