The Christie Lecture is given by people who are either alumni or closely associated with the Meakins-Christie Laboratories and who have made outstanding contributions to the area of respiratory medicine. In the early 1930s, Ronald Christie was recruited by Dr. Jonathan Meakins for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Royal Victoria Hospital where they published a series of papers on the mechanics of breathing in emphysema and mitral stenosis and with blood gas abnormalities in pulmonary edema. Ronald Christie became physician-in-chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and chairman of the McGill Department of Medicine by 1955, and dean of the McGill Faculty of Medicine by 1962.
Esra Tasali
2024
University of Chicago
Sleep and Energy Metabolism Research Highlights
William S Powell
2021
McGill University
Perspectives on a Life in Lipids
David Gozal
2019
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Exosomes in Sleep Apnea: Personalized Biomarkers or Effectors of Morbidity
Manuel Cosio
2018
University of Padova
A life of research untangling the mechanisms of COPD. Did we get anywhere?
Peter Calverley
2016
University of Liverpool
Back to the future of COPD: How the Meakins-Christie got it right
Tony Eissa
2014
Baylor College of Medicine
Autophagy in lung inflammation and immunity: implications in asthma and COPD
Stephanie Shore
2012
Harvard School of Public Health
Obesity and asthma: lessons from animal models
Jason Bates
2011
University of Vermont
A physicist’s life in the lungs: the good, the bad, and the viscoelastic
Michiaki Mishima
2010
Kyoto University
Digital analysis of X-ray CT imaging of airway and lung parenchyma in obstructive ventilatory disorders
Marina Saetta
2008
University of Padova
From morphometry to immunology: a long trip toward the understanding of COPD
Jerome Dempsey
2007
University of Wisconsin
Sleep apnea: causes, consequences and myths
Marc Decramer
2006
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Systemic consequences of COPD
Peter Paré
2005
University of British Columbia
The identification of susceptibility genes for complex pulmonary and cardiovascular disease
Charles G Irvin
2004
University of Vermont
The Meakins-Christie Laboratories, past present and future: a personal perspective
Maurice McGregor
2001
McGill University
Let not the measurable drive out the relevant: difficult decisions in health care
Charis Roussos
2000
University of Athens
On principles and methods that we were taught at McGill
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi
1999
Juntendo University
Aging lung in health and disease
Joseph Milic-Emili
1998
McGill University
My life as a scientist
Ann J Woolcock
1997
University of Sydney
Understanding airway behaviour
A Charles Bryan
1996
University of Toronto
Strategies in mechanical ventilation
Peter Macklem
1995
McGill University
The way we breathe in health and disease
James Hogg
1994
University of British Columbia
The role of latent viral infection in the Pathogenesis of COPD
William M Thurlbeck
1993
University of British Columbia
Emphysema then and now
Ludwig Engel
1992
Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Honorary Lecturer
Margaret R Becklake
1991
McGill University
Spirometric test failure: disease or disinclination
David Bates
1990
University of British Columbia
Small airways through the respectroscope