Assistant Professor, Respiratory Medicine, UBCAbout:Dr. Ryu holds the Moira and David Yeung Professorship in Respiratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for...
COPD Clinical Research NurseAbout:Laura is a registered nurse who has worked at Royal Columbian Hospital on medical wards, intensive care (ICU) and cardiac care (CCU). Shen then worked in Older Adult Community Nursing and specialized in palliative care clients. Laura has also worked as a...
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBCAbout:Mohsen Sadatsafavi, MD, PhD, is an epidemiologist and health economist, and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He leads the Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program (https://resp.core.ubc.ca), a program of outcomes research dedicated to asthma and COPD. His work is concerned...
Affiliation:Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British ColumbiaAbout:Dr. John Fleetham is a Professor and a clinician-scientist at the University of British Columbia He has an extensive publication record and his research has been acknowledged by a variety of international and national awards and in 2023 he...
Affiliation:Research Manager – Industry Partnerships, Centre for Lung Health Research Support Unit, Legacy for Airway HealthAbout:Shelley has a Bachelor of Science, Honors degree in Cell and Molecular biology, with a minor in criminology, from Simon Fraser University. She has over 12 years of experience as...
Affiliation:Professor, Respiratory Medicine, UBCAbout:Dr. Road is a Professor at the Division of Respiratory Medicine and a Respirologist at Vancouver Hospital and UBC. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Provincial Respiratory Outreach Program and the UBC Hospital Lung Function Laboratory. His main areas...
Affiliation:Post-doctoral fellow, Respiratory Medicine, UBCAbout:Dr. Milne completed her undergraduate education at Acadia University and medical school (2013), internal medicine residency (2016) and respiratory medicine fellowship (2018) at the University of British Columbia. Following her respiratory medicine fellowship, she completed the Clinician Investigator Program at the...
Affiliation:Research Associate, Respiratory Medicine, UBCAbout:Chris completed a Ph.D. at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Medicine supervised by Drs. Robert Newton and Mark Giembycz. His Ph.D. work focused on corticosteroid/glucocorticoid resistance and how this could be ameliorated with long acting beta2-adrenoceptor agonists, in...
Asthma and COPD Education Coordinator, Vancouver Coastal HealthAbout:Sonia Bola is a respiratory therapist, certified respiratory educator, and certified tobacco educator. Sonia graduated in 2015 from TRU as a respiratory therapist. She began working in acute care at the University Hospital of Northern BC. She later...
Director, Centre for Lung Health Professor and Division Head, Respiratory Medicine, UBCAbout:Dr. Christopher Carlsten is director of the Centre for Lung Health, a professor and head of the Respiratory Medicine Division at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is the Canada Research Chair in Occupational...