Boushra Riad Mikhael was chief of urology at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Born in Assyout, Egypt on 2 June 1936, his parents were Riad and Labibal Mikhael and he was the tenth of their eleven children. After attending medical school in Cairo he travelled to the UK and studied at the Institute of Urology in London. He passed the fellowship of the College in 1968. Two years later, in 1970, he moved to Ottowa in Canada and joined the staff of the Queensway Carleton Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario where he worked as an adult and paediatric urologist for 30 years. An assistant professor of surgery at the University of Ottawa, he was also an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. His religion was central to his life. An elder at Rideauview Bible Chapel for over 25 years, he was an itinerant bible teacher and also conducted hundreds of Bible studies at his own home. Known to have memorised large sections of the Bible he spent considerable amounts of his time preaching, teaching, praying and counselling. When he retired from medicine this became his full time occupation. He was chair of the board of Galilee Bible Camp, board member of Counsel Magazine, the Ontario Workers and Elders Conference and the Rise Up international conferences. In the last weeks of his life he completed a book *The desire of all nations*, one of many he wrote on religious topics. On 25 July 1964 he married Nadia née Tadros who was also medically qualified. They had two sons, Sam and Joseph, who also became doctors. He died of colon cancer on 26 January 2012 aged 75 and was survived by his wife, sons, daughters-in-law, Patti and Heather, and granddaughters Annie, Alyssa and Katie.