Stefan A. Carter was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. In 1948, he immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Stefan graduated from the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine in 1954 and went on to have an illustrious career in vascular medicine. He was an advocate for Holocaust education and a classical music aficionado. His book Mozart: A Meditation on His Life and Mysterious Death was published in 2006. Stefan Carter passed away in 2023.