Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award

Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award

The Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award is given from time to time to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science. Previous winners are:

*1976 Keith J.R. Wightman
*1979 Claude Fortier
*1981 Louis Siminovitch
*1984 Douglas G. Cameron
*1986 Aser Rothstein
*1989 Lloyd D. MacLean
*1992 John R. Evans
*1999 Charles Hollenberg, Peter Macklem
*2001 Henry Friesen
*2006 Allan R. Ronald

ee also

*Gairdner Foundation International Award


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