The Peter T. Macklem Lecture honours the memory of Dr. Peter Macklem (1931-2011). Dr. Macklem founded the Meakins-Christie Laboratories in 1972 and served as its first director until his appointment as Physician-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Chair of the Department of Medicine at McGill in 1979. Among many honours, he was awarded the Order of Canada, inducted into the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, and received the Trudeau Medal of the American Lung Association. His many contributions to respiratory physiology and medicine included studies of respiratory mechanics including the mechanisms of airflow limitation, identifying the importance of small airways disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and establishing that respiratory muscles could undergo fatigue with consequent ventilatory failure.
2026
Tillie Hackett, University of British Columbia, Canada
Understanding heterogenous airways disease in asthma and COPD using spatial imaging
2023
Darcy Wagner, Lund University, Sweden
Building a lung from scratch: a new frontier to study human disease and to generate transplantable tissue units
2022
Patricia Janet Sime, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Fires of inflammation and its resolution in COPD
2019
Graham Barr, Columbia University, USA
Lumping and splitting chronic lower respiratory diseases
2018
Ian Adcock, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mechanisms underlying severe asthma phenotypes
2016
Thomas Similowski, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, France
Peter T. Macklem: stimulating from the Phrenic To the Mind
2015
Jeffrey Fredberg, Harvard H.T. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium: Was Peter right yet again?
2014
James C. Hogg, University of British Columbia, Canada
COPD changing concepts. A journey starting as a PhD student with Peter Macklem