The Macklem Lecture is given in honour of Dr. Peter Macklem, who founded the Meakins-Christie Laboratories in 1972. Dr. Macklem was director at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories between 1972-1979 until his appointment as Physician in Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Chair of the Department of Medicine at McGill in 1979. Among his many contributions to respiratory physiology and medicine were the notion of equal pressure points determining flow limitation during forced expiration, the importance of small airways in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the concept that respiratory muscles, like other skeletal muscles could undergo fatigue.
Darcy Wagner
2023
Lund University
Building a lung from scratch: a new frontier to study human disease and to generate transplantable tissue units
Patricia Janet Sime
2022
Virginia Commonwealth University
Fires of inflammation and its resolution in COPD
Graham Barr
2019
Columbia University
Lumping and splitting chronic lower respiratory diseases
Ian Adcock
2018
Imperial College London
Mechanisms underlying severe asthma phenotypes
Thomas Similowski
2016
Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, France
Peter T. Macklem: stimulating from the Phrenic To the Mind
Jeffrey Fredberg
2015
Harvard H.T. Chan School of Public Health
Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium: Was Peter right yet again?
James C. Hogg
2014
University of British Columbia
COPD changing concepts. A journey starting as a PhD student with Peter Macklem