Peter Macklem

Peter Tiffany Macklem OC FRSC FRCPC (October 4, 1931 – February 11, 2011) was a Canadian doctor, medical researcher and hospital administrator.

[1][2] Peter Tiffany Macklem was born in 1931 in Kingston, Ontario, and grew up there.

A resident of the Thousand Islands area, he helped lead the campaign (still in progress) to have the Saint Lawrence River named a Canadian Heritage River.

[4] His nephew, Tiff Macklem, served as the 10th governor of the Bank of Canada.

In 1979, he became chief physician at the RVH and, the following year, chair of the Department of Medicine at McGill.