Bryce Weir OC, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FRCS (Ed) hon

Goldblatt Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Neurology, former chief of Neurosurgery, Director of the Brain Research Institute, Interim Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs
The University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School

Dr. Weir is also Anderson Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Alberta. His cerebrovascular research laboratories were supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the National Institute of Health continuously over decades. He demonstrated the time course of vasospasm in man and was a major force in making early intervention the standard in the neurosurgical care of ruptured aneurysm patients. His laboratory developed an animal model of chronic cerebral vasospasm. The encasing blood clot was critical to the development of vasospasm but the proximal causes were multifactorial. Dr. Weir has participated in almost all the major prospective clinical trials of drugs designed to ameliorate vasospasm dating back to the 1983. He authored “Aneurysms Affecting the Nervous System”, “Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Causes and Cures”, and “Cerebral Vasospasm” (with Dr. R.L. Macdonald). He was awarded the Grass Gold Medal of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Society of Neurosurgery and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.