The Christie Lecture honours the memory of Dr. Ronald Christie (1902-1986), who was a research fellow at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Meakins in the 1930s. Together, Meakins and Christie published a series of seminal papers on the mechanics of breathing in emphysema and mitral stenosis. Dr. Christie returned to McGill in 1955 to become Physician-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and was later appointed Dean of the McGill Faculty of Medicine. He was responsible for recruiting a large number of prominent researchers in respiratory physiology to McGill, which laid the groundwork for the later establishment of the Meakins-Christie Laboratories.
2026
Andrea Aliverti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Measuring breathing: from the lab to real life
2024
Esra Tasali, University of Chicago, USA
Sleep and Energy Metabolism Research Highlights
2021
William S Powell, McGill University, Canada
Perspectives on a Life in Lipids
2019
David Gozal, University of Missouri School of Medicine, USA
Exosomes in Sleep Apnea: Personalized Biomarkers or Effectors of Morbidity
2018
Manuel Cosio, University of Padova, Italy
A life of research untangling the mechanisms of COPD. Did we get anywhere?
2016
Peter Calverley, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Back to the future of COPD: How the Meakins-Christie got it right
2014
Tony Eissa, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Autophagy in lung inflammation and immunity: implications in asthma and COPD
2012
Stephanie Shore, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Obesity and asthma: lessons from animal mode
2011
Jason Bates, University of Vermont, USA
A physicist’s life in the lungs: the good, the bad, and the viscoelastic
2010
Michiaki Mishima, Kyoto University, Japan
Digital analysis of X-ray CT imaging of airway and lung parenchyma in obstructive ventilatory disorders
2008
Marina Saetta, University of Padova, Italy
From morphometry to immunology: a long trip toward the understanding of COPD
2007
Jerome Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, USA
Sleep apnea: causes, consequences and myths
2006
Marc Decramer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Systemic consequences of COPD
2005
Peter Paré, University of British Columbia, Canada
The identification of susceptibility genes for complex pulmonary and cardiovascular disease
2004
Charles G Irvin. University of Vermont, USA
The Meakins-Christie Laboratories, past present and future: a personal perspective
2001
Maurice McGregor, McGill University, Canada
Let not the measurable drive out the relevant: difficult decisions in health care
2000
Charis Roussos, University of Athens, Greece
On principles and methods that we were taught at McGill
1999
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, Juntendo University, Japan
Aging lung in health and disease
1998
Joseph Milic-Emili, McGill University, Canada
My life as a scientist
1997
Ann J Woolcock, University of Sydney, Australia
Understanding airway behaviour
1996
A Charles Bryan, University of Toronto, Canada
Strategies in mechanical ventilation
1995
Peter Macklem, McGill University, Canada
The way we breathe in health and disease
1994
James Hogg, University of British Columbia, Canada
The role of latent viral infection in the Pathogenesis of COPD
1993
William M Thurlbeck, University of British Columbia, Canada
Emphysema then and now
1992
Ludwig Engel, Westmead Hospital, Australia
Honorary Lecturer
1991
Margaret R Becklake, McGill University, Canada
Spirometric test failure: disease or disinclination
1990
David Bates, University of British Columbia, Canada
Small airways through the respectroscope