HARRY L. GOLDSMITH

Harry Goldsmith is Professor of Physiology at McGill University. He joined the University Medical Clinic at the Montreal General Hospital in 1964, where he continues to do research using devices for visually observing the flow and interactions of human blood cells. Most recently, he has worked on the flow-induced formation and rupture of receptor-ligand bonds between neutrophils, and neutrophils and platelets. He was Director of the Division of Experimental Medicine from 1976 to 1995, and administered the Ph.D. program in Medicine. He teaches physiology students on the mechanics of blood flow and its relation to vascular diseases.