“La médecine ne devrait pas être une profession, mais une vocation.”
Between 1982 and 1992, Dr. Teasdale-Corti ran a program to train surgical residents at Makerere University in Kampala and also trained Italian doctors to serve in Africa.
During the period of civil war in Uganda, it operated on the wounded on both sides often under difficult and dangerous conditions. In 1982, during an operation, she contracted AIDS.
She became a member of the Order of Canada in 1991 and ella received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal in 1996.