Donald Blake Rix, CM OBC[2][3] (1931 – November 6, 2009) was a Canadian pathologist, philanthropist, community volunteer, and businessman.
[4] Dr. Rix earned a specialty certificate in general pathology in 1968 from the University of Western Ontario.
He was a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
He was the former chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade, a senior member of both the British Columbia and Canadian Medical Associations, and was awarded the BCMA Silver Medal of Service Award in 2004.
[5] Donald Rix died of cancer on November 6, 2009,[1][6] and in 2014, it was revealed that he was the first patient in the world to have received personalized onco-genomics on a research basis as part of his cancer treatment.