Bruce McManus was Director of the Cardiovascular Registry and the cardiovascular pathology service at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre. In 1993 he became the Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC and has remained a Professor in that department. He is an active researcher and co-Director of the James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital. He is a national leader in cardiovascular research and has served since 2000 as the inaugural Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health. In addition to being an excellent and productive scientist, Dr. McManus is an outstanding scientific mentor and has trained many basic biomedical and clinical scientists.