COPD

Affiliation:Asthma and COPD Education Coordinator, Vancouver Coastal HealthAbout:Jay Beaupre is a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) since 2008 and Certified Respiratory Educator (CRE) since 2011. After graduating in 2008, he worked as an acute care Respiratory Therapist in the hospital in St. Albert Alberta and then...

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...

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: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...

Respiratory Therapist, COPD Transition Team, 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...