Pat McGeer
Olympic athlete
1927 –
Who is Pat McGeer?
Patrick Lucey "Pat" McGeer, OC, OBC, FRSC, is a Canadian physician, professor and medical researcher. He is regarded as a leading authority on the causes and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and is the principal author of the inflammatory hypothesis of the disease, which holds that Alzheimer's is an inflammation of the cortex. Formerly, he was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, a politician who represented the constituency of Vancouver-Point Grey in the British Columbia legislature from 1962 to 1986, and a member of the British Columbia cabinet from 1976 to 1986.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1927
Canada - Also known as
- Patrick L. McGeer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- Princeton University
- University of British Columbia
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on July 23, 2013
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