Godfrey Heathcote: Ophthalmic pathologist, connective tissue biochemist, and medical laboratory administrator

bmj;385/jun04_9/q1180/FAF1faGodfrey Heathcote developed an interest in laboratory science as an 8 year old boy when his father, a research biochemist, gave him a microscope and a box of histology slides as a Christmas present. The following Christmas his present was a customised chemistry set.Over almost 50 years he established an international reputation in the pathobiology of ocular disease. Quiet and modest by nature, he believed—along with Jonas Salk, the US virologist who developed the first polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California—that the “reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”Heathcote was chair of the Canadian Ophthalmic Pathology Society, president of the British Association for Ophthalmic Pathology, pathology editor for the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, and editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Pathology. He spent most of his career in Canada, but he retained an affection for the NHS and maintained…
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