Pat McGeer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pat McGeer

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Profession: politician, neurologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Patrick Lucey "Pat" McGeer, OC, OBC, FRSC (born June 29, 1927), 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.
In 1995, he and his wife Edith were inducted as Officers of the Order of Canada.
In 2002 they were jointly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2005 they were jointly inducted into the Order of British Columbia.