James A.F. Stevenson Memorial Lecture
A lecture series was established in 1972 to honour the memory of Professor James A.F. Stevenson (1918-1971) who was Chairman of the Department of Physiology at the University of Western Ontario from 1951 to 1970. Under his dynamic leadership the Department was expanded and teaching and research programs were strengthened. He directed a vigorous research group in Regulatory and Integrative Physiology concerned in particular with neural mechanisms in the control of water and energy balance.
Professor Stevenson was a pioneer in organizing scientific activities as founder and then as president of the Canadian Physiological Society and of the Biological Council of Canada. He was also Vice President of the Association of Scientific, Engineering and Technological Communities of Canada, and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. He received national and international recognition for his contributions, including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1969.
This series of lectures is dedicated to Professor Stevenson's firmly held view, which he pursued as a teacher and as a scientist, that physiological processes are integrated components of adaptive responses of the whole animal to environmental challenges.
| Year | Lecturer |
| 2024 | Stanley Nattel |
| 2022 | Tak Mak |
| 2020 | Amira Klip |
| 2018 | John Scott |
| 2016 | Charles Bourque |
| 2014 | Hal Dietz |
| 2012 | Jean Schaffer |
| 2010 | Jeff Wrana |
| 2008 | Randal Kaufman |
| 2006 | Gerard Karsenty |
| 2005 | Martin M. Matzuk |
| 2004 | Kenton M. Sanders |
| 2003 | Geoffrey Burnstock |
| 2002 | Virginia M-Y Lee |
| 2001 | Edward G. Lakatta |
| 2000 | Leroy E. Hood |
| 1999 | Jeffrey M. Friedman |
| 1998 | Henry M. Kronenberg |
| 1997 | A. James Hudspeth |
| 1996 | Denis Nobel |
| 1995 | Michel Chretien |
| 1994 | Neena B. Schwartz |
| Year | Lecturer |
| 1993 | Salvador Moncada |
| 1992 | David J. Ramsay |
| 1992 | Joseph H. Szurszewski |
| 1990 | P. Michael Conn |
| 1989 | Peter B.C. Mattews |
| 1988 | John B. West |
| 1987 | Geoffrey S. Dawes |
| 1986 | Albert J. Aguayo |
| 1985 | Wylie W. Vale |
| 1984 | Roger A. Gorski |
| 1983 | Patrick L. McGeer |
| 1982 | David H. Hubel |
| 1981 | F. Eugene Yates |
| 1980 | Arthur C. Guyton |
| 1979 | James T. Fitzsimons |
| 1978 | Charles H. Sawyer |
| 1977 | Jacques De Champlian |
| 1976 | Vernon B. MountCastle |
| 1975 | Alan N. Epstein |
| 1974 | Edward E. Evarts |
| 1973 | John R. Brobeck |
| 1972 | Sir John Eccles |
