canada gairdner wightman award canada gairdner wightman award the canada gairdner wightman award is annually awarded by the gairdner foundation to a canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of medicine and medical science. award winners source: gairdner- past recipients 1976 keith j.r. wightman 1979 claude fortier 1981 louis siminovitch 1984 douglas g. cameron 1986 aser rothstein 1989 lloyd d. maclean 1992 john robert evans 1999 charles hollenberg, peter macklem 2001 henry friesen 2006 allan r. ronald 2008 alan bernstein 2009 david sackett 2010 calvin stiller 2011 michael r. hayden 2012 lorne a. babiuk 2013 james c. hogg 2014 salim yusuf 2015 janet rossant 2016 frank plummer 2017 antoine m hakim 2018 frances alice shepherd 2019 connie jean eaves 2020 guy a. rouleau 2021 elizabeth eisenhauer