The Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award is given from time to time to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science. 2009 it has been renamed to Canada Gairdner Wightman Award. Previous winners are:
- 1976 Keith J.R. Wightman
- 1979 Claude Fortier
- 1981 Louis Siminovitch
- 1984 Douglas G. Cameron
- 1986 Aser Rothstein
- 1989 Lloyd D. MacLean
- 1992 John Robert Evans
- 1999 Charles Hollenberg, Peter Macklem
- 2001 Henry Friesen
- 2006 Allan R. Ronald
- 2008 Alan Bernstein
- 2009 David Sackett
- 2010 Calvin Stiller
- 2011 Michael R. Hayden
- 2012 Lorne A. Babiuk
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