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Minan Abbas

Assistant Professor

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Rami Abdelshaheed

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Simona Abid

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Abdulgani Abonowara

MD, FRCPC, FACC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Rami Abou-Khamis

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Salaheddin Abouanaser

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Tala Abu-Hijleh

Assistant Professor

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Mohannad Abu-Hilal

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor
Director, Division of Dermatology
Director, Advanced Clinical Dermatology Fellowship

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Abdulrhman Abulaban

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Margaret Ackerman

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Juan Gabriel Acosta Velez

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Dr. Rick Adachi is a professor of medicine at McMaster University and a staff rheumatologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. He is also the inaugural holder of the Alliance for Better Bone Health Chair in Rheumatology. He is a graduate of McMaster University and has received his fellowship in Internal Medicine and in Rheumatology. Dr. Adachi is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Osteoporosis Canada and is a member of the Council of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). Recently he was re-elected to the IOF Board of Directors. Dr. Adachi has conducted many clinical trials and has published extensively on a wide variety of therapies for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal and corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis. He has participated in epidemiologic research assisting in the development of large databases looking at a wide variety of risk factors and therapies in osteoporosis. Dr. Adachi has participated in the development of guidelines for the treatment of primary and corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis in Canada. Dr. Adachi was awarded the First Annual Phillip Rosen Award in Rheumatology when he completed his training in Rheumatology. More recently Dr. Adachi was awarded the Lindy Fraser Award by Osteoporosis Canada. In 2006, he was awarded the Alliance for Better Bone Health Chair in Rheumatology at McMaster University and received the North American Menopause Society award for Innovation in Osteoporosis Research.

Research Interests: The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (random sample of 10,000 subjects followed for 10 years to assess risk for osteoporosis and fractures); the structural analysis of bone and cartilage in bone and cartilage as measured by pQCT and pMRI; clinical trials in osteoporosis.

Rick Adachi

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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Colin Adams

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Jeremy Adams

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Nazanin Aghel

Assistant Professor

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Albert Agro

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

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Ali Ahmad

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Niloufar Ahmadbeigi

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Amna Ahmed

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Hanan Ahmed

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Shoeb Ahsan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Craig Ainsworth

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Abayomi Ajayi

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Baha Al Azzoni

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

Kumait Al Lawati

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Noura Al Osaimi

Assistant Professor
Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography Fellowship Director

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Ahmed Al-Den

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ziyaad Al-Khateeb

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Ammar Al-Khudairy

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ahmed Al-Riyami

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ayman Al-Saleh

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Aiman Alak

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Sara Alavian

Assistant Clinical Professor

Siwar Mazen Albashir

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Michael Alexander

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Waleed Alhazzani

MBBS, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Anhar Alhussaini

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Karim Ali

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Cheryl Allaby

Associate Professor

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Education and Professional Standing

Dr. Allen’s undergraduate education was at Oxford University in England and at the Royal London Hospital. After postgraduate training which led to the MRCP (UK) diploma in General Internal Medicine Dr. Allen completed fellowship training in respiratory medicine at McMaster University. This was followed by a Canadian MRC research fellowship in clinical exercise physiology at McMaster. He joined the consultant staff at the Firestone Institute in 1984.

Selected Publications

Allen CJ, Jones NL. Rate of change of alveolar CO2 and the control of ventilation during exercise. J Physiol 1984;355:1-9.
Allen CJ, Newhouse MT. Gastroesophageal reflux and chronic respiratory disease. Am Rev Resp Dis. 1984;129:645-7.
Allen CJ, Jones NL, Killian KJ. Alveolar gas exchange single breath analysis. Journal of Applied Physiology 1984;57:1704-9.
Anvari M, Allen CJ, Borm A. Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication is a satisfactory alternative to long-term omeprazole. Br. J. Surg 1995;82:938-42.
Anvari M, Allen CJ, Moran LA. Immediate And Delayed Effects Of Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication On Pulmonary Function. Surg Endosc 1996 10:1171-5.
Kates N, Craven M.A., Crustolo A-M., Nikolaou N, Allen C, Farrar S. Sharing care: the psychiatrist in the family physician’s office. Can J Psychiatry 1997;42:960-65.
Anvari M., Allen CJ. Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication two year comprehensive follow-up of a technique of minimal paraesophageal dissection. Ann Surg 1998 Jan;227(1):25-32.
Allen CJ, Anvari M. Prospective Evaluation of Cough Before and After Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication. Thorax 1998;53:963-8. This paper discussed in an editorial Ing AJ, Ngu MC. Cough and gastroesophageal reflux. Lancet 1999;353:944-6.
Allen, C. J. , Parameswaran, K. , Belda, J. & Anvari, M. Reproducibility, validity, and responsiveness of a disease-specific symptom questionnaire for gastroesophageal reflux disease. Diseases of the Esophagus2000:13 (4), 265-270.
K. Parameswaran, M. Anvari, A. Efthimiadias, D. Kamada, FE. Hargreve, C. Allen. Lipid-Laden Macrophages in Induced Sputum are a Marker of Oro-pharyngeal Reflux and Possible Gastric Aspiration. Eur Respiratory J 2000 16(6):1119-1122.
Parameswaran K, Allen CJ, Kamada D, Efthimiadis A, Anvari M, Hargreave FE. Sputum cell counts and exhaled nitric oxide in patients with gastroesophageal reflux, and cough or asthma. Can Respir J 2001;8(4):239-44.
Anvari M, Allen C. Five-year comprehensive outcomes evaluation in 181 patients after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. J Am Coll Surg 2003;196(1):51-7.
Allen CJ, Anvari M. Does laparoscopic fundoplication provide long-term control of gastroesophageal reflux related cough? Surg Endosc 2004;18(4):633-7.
M.A. Craven, L. Nikolaou, C.J. Allen, A.M. Crustolo, N. Kates. Patient Education Materials for Mental Health Problems in Family Practice: Does Location Matter? Patient Education and Counseling 2005;56:192-196.
Anvari M, Allen C, Marshall J, Armstrong D, Goeree R, Ungar W, et al. A randomized controlled trial of laparoscopic nissen fundoplication versus proton pump inhibitors for treatment of patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease: One-year follow-up. Surg Innov. 2006 Dec;13(4):238-49
D’Silva L, Cook RJ, Allen CJ, Hargreave FE, Parameswaran K. Changing pattern of sputum cell counts during successive exacerbations of airway disease. Respir Med. 2007;101(10):2217-20.
Anvari M, Allen C, Marshall J, Armstrong D, Goeree R, Ungar W, et al. A randomized controlled trial of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication versus proton pump inhibitors for the treatment of patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): 3-year outcomes. Surg Endosc. 2011;25(8):2547-54. Epub 2011/04/23.
Goeree R, Hopkins R, Marshall JK, Armstrong D, Ungar WJ, Goldsmith C, et al. Cost-utility of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication versus proton pump inhibitors for chronic and controlled gastroesophageal reflux disease: a 3-year prospective randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation. Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 2011;14(2):263-73. Epub 2011/03/16.
Wilson AM, Nair P, Hargreave FE, Efthimiadis AE, Anvari M, Allen CJ. Lipid and smoker’s inclusions in sputum macrophages in patients with airway diseases. Respir Med. 2011;105(11):1691-5. Epub 2011/08/13.
Yao X, Gomes MM, Tsao MS, Allen CJ, Geddie W, Sekhon H. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy versus core-needle biopsy in diagnosing lung cancer: a systematic review. Curr Oncol. 2012;19(1):e16-27. Epub 2012/02/14.

Research Interests: Pulmonary physiology and exercise testing, gastroesophageal reflux as it relates to respiratory disease, electronic database development to support the practice of respiratory medicine, community management of asthma through collaboration with the Primary Care Asthma Program which is funded and supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health.. Dr. Allen has received research funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Ontario Lung Association, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Chris Allen

MA, BM, BCh, FRCPC, FRCP

Associate Professor (Part-Time)

Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

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Mohammad Althobity

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Eisahas Amdemichael

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Faizan Amin

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Guy Amit

MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Electrophysiologist

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Associate Chair, Equity and Diversity, Department of Medicine

Director, Population Genomics Program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease

Heart and Stroke Foundation / Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research McMaster University

McMaster University’s Dr. Sonia Anand was only 33 years old when she landed the Eli Lilly Canada-May Cohen Chair in Women’s Health. Although her present research involves the environmental and genetic determinants of vascular and peripheral vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin, she is most recognized for her research on women’s health issues, particularly in the area of cardiovascular disease. The care and treatment of women’s cardiovascular disease, unique in its latent and non-specific symptoms, must differ from the standard employed for men to be successful, and Dr. Anand’s research is innovative in making this a priority.

As a Professor with the Department of Medicine and a member of the Leadership Council of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada’s Heart Truth campaign, Dr. Anand has helped give women the tools they need to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease. Studying the differences associated with each gender’s symptomatic experience of heart disease, Dr. Anand aims to clarify the way in which social factors interact with biological factors to impact cardiovascular health.

Dr. Anand is also the Principal Investigator of two large genetic association studies, including the CIHR/HSFO funded EPiDREAM study of 22,000 people from 21 countries. Complementing this research, Dr. Anand teaches clinical epidemiology courses in methodology and cardiovascular disease at McMaster University with the hope of influencing future generations of doctors to be mindful of women’s health matters.

Selected Publications

Do R, Xie C, Zhang X, Islam S, Bailey S, Rangarajan S, McQueen M, Diaz R, Lisheng L, Wang X, Yusuf S, Engert J, Anand SS. Dietary Intake Modifies the Effect of Chromosome 9p21 Variants on Cardiovascular Disease. PLoS Med 2011 Oct;8(10):e1001106
Zbuk K, Xie C, Young R, Heydarpour M, Pare G, Davis A, Miller R, Lanktree M, Saleheen D, Danesh J, Yusuf S, Engert J, Hegele R, Anand SS. BRCA2 Variants and Cardiovascular Disease in a Multi-Ethnic Study. BMC Med Genet 2012 July18;13-56
Anand S, Dagenais G, Mohan V, Diaz R, Probstfield J, Freeman R, Shaw J, Marshall S, Lanas F, Avezum A, Budaj A, Jung H, Desai D, Bosch J, Yusuf S, Gertstein H. Glucose Levels are Associated with Cardiovascular Disease and Death in an International Cohort of Normal Glycemic and Dysglycemic Men and Women: The EpiDREAM Cohort Study. Eur J Cardiovas Prev Cardiol 2012 Aug;19(4):755-64
Joseph P, Davis A, Miller R, Hill K, McCarthy H, Banerjee A, Chow C, Mente A, Anand SS. Contextual determinants of health behaviours in an Aboriginal community in Canada: Pilot Project. BMC Public Health 2012 Nov 7;12:952
Joseph P, Pare G, Anand SS. Exploring Gene-Environment Relationships in Cardiovascular Disease. Can J Cardio 2013 Jan;29(1);37-45
Anand SS. Vasudevan A, Gupta M, Morrison K, Kurpad A, Teo KK, Srinivasan K, On behalf of the START Cohort Study Investigators. Rationale and Design of South Asian Birth Cohort (START): A Canada-India Collaborative Study BMC Public Health 2013, Jan 28; 13:79
Kreatsoulas C, Anand SS. Menopausal hormone therapy for the primary prevention of chronic conditions. U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendation statement. Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2013:123(3): 112-7.
Kreatsoulas C, Shannon HS, Giacomini M, Velianou JL, Anand SS. Reconstructing Angina: Cardiac Symptoms Are the Same in Women and Men. JAMA Internal Medicine 2013 Apr. 8:1-2.
Neylon A, Canniffe C, Anand S, Kreatsoulas c, Blake GJ, Sugrue D, McGorrian D. A global perspective on psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2013 May-Jun;55(6): 574-81.
Kalra S, Mercuri M, Anand SS. Measures of body fat in South Asian Adults. Nutr Diabetes 2013 May 27;3:e69
Chetty T, Damjanovic S, Gerstein H, Singh N, Yusuf S, Anand SS, Sharma A. Metabolic effects of Telmisartan in subjects with abdomen obesity: a prospective randomized control trial. Blood Pressure, 2013; Jun 3
Mente A, Meyre D, Lanktree M, Heydarpour M, Davis AD, Miller R, Gerstein H, Hegele RA, Yusuf S, Anand SS. Causal Relationship between Adiponectin and Metabolic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Study in a Multiethnic Population. PLoS One 2013 June 24;8(6): e66808
Wahi G, Wilson J, Miller R, Anglin R, McDonald S, Morrison KM, Teo KK, Anand SS. Aboriginal birth cohort (ABC): a prospective cohort study of early life determinants of adiposity and associated risk factors among Aboriginal people in Canada. BMC public health. 2013 Jun 25;13(1):608. [Epub ahead of print]
Shah BR, Victor JC, Chiu M, Tu JV, Anand SS, Austin PC, Manuel DG, Hux JE. Cardiovascular Complications and Mortality After Diabetes Diagnosis for South Asian and Chinese Patients: A population-based cohort study. Diabetes Care 2013 Sep;36(9):2670-6
Anand SS, Meyre D, Pare G, Bailey S, Xie C, Zhang X, Montpetit A, Desai D, Bosch J, Mohan V, Diaz R, McQueen M, Cordell H, Keavney B, Yusuf S, Gaudet D, Gerstein H, Engert JC, on behalf of the EpiDREAM Genetics Investigators. Genetic Information and the Prediction of incident Type 2 Diabetes in a High-Risk Multi-Ethnic population: The EpiDREAM Genetic Study. Diabetes Care 2013 Sep;36(9):2836-42
Oliveira A, Kalra S, Wahi G, McDonald S, Desai D, Wilson J, Jacobs L, Smoke S, Hill P, Hill K, Morrison K, Teo K, Miller R, Anand SS. Maternal and Newborn Health Profile in an Aboriginal Community in Canada. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Wahi G, Anand SS. Race/Ethnicity, obesity and related cardio-metabolic risk factors: A life-course perspective. Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep (In Press Aug 2013)

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Research Interests: Environmental and genetic determinants of vascular disease in populations of varying ancestral origin; women and cardiovascular disease.

Sonia Anand

MD, PhD

Professor, Division of Cardiology

Associate Chair, Heart and Stroke Foundation / Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research; Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease (Tier 1); Director, Population Genomics Program

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Tasjeel Ansari

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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David Armstrong

MB BChir, FRCPC, FRCP(UK), FACG, AGAF

Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Douglas Family Chair in Nutrition Research

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Cristina Arning

MScN, NP-PHC, CDE

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Donald Arnold

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Hematology & Thromboembolism

John G. Kelton Chair in Translational Research; Chair, Research

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Naveen Arya

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Ali Ashkar

DVM, PhD

Professor, Division of Clinical Immunology & Allergy

Canada Research Chair in Innate Immunity and Natural Killer Cell Function (Tier 1)

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Kjetil Ask

PhD

Associate Professor (Part-time)

Principal Investigator

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Richard Austin

PhD

Professor, Division of Nephrology

Amgen Canada Research Chair in Nephrology

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Mohan Babapulle

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Mazen Bader

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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F. Douglas Bair

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Girish Bajaj

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Steven Baker

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Hamilton Hospitals Assessment Centre Endowed Professorship in Neuromuscular Disease; Neuromuscular Fellowship Program Director

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Sikhar Banerjee

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

Elvira Bangert

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Pankaj Bansal

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Ronald Barr

PhD

Endowed Professorship

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Salih Bashar

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Simran Basi

MD, FRCPC, CSCN (EMG), Dip. Sport Med.

Assistant Clinical Professor

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program Director

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Carol Walker Bassim

MHS, DMD

Assistant Professor

Scientific Manager, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

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Shannon Bates

MDCM, MSc, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Hematology & Thromboembolism

Eli Lilly Canada/May Cohen Chair in Women's Health

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Cristina Batey

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Tahira Batool

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Michelle Batthish

Assistant Professor

Bandar Baw

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Mohammed Bawazir

MD, MSc, FRCPC, DABD

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Stephanie Bazak

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Marla Beauchamp

PT, PhD

Assistant Professor

Associate Member, Department of Medicine

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Suman Behera

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Conor Bell

Assistant Professor

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Emilie Belley-Côté

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

Director of Critical Care Research, Hamilton General Hospital

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Mark Benaroia

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Todd Bentley

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Matthew Berardocco

MD, FRCPC, CSCN Diplomate (EMG)

Assistant Clinical Professor

Premysl Bercik

MD, PhD

Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Richard Hunt-AstraZeneca Chair in Gastroenterology

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Beatrix Berczi

Assistant Clinical Professor

Britta Berg

Assistant Professor

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Joseph Berlingieri

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Michael Beyea

Assistant Clinical Professor

Vinai Bhagirath

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor

Thrombosis AFC Program Director

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Sankalp Bhavsar

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Birubi Biman

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Lyle Bissonnette

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Kenneth Blonde

Assistant Clinical Professor

Raja Bobba

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Alexandra Bojcevski

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Sergio Borgia

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Pauline Boulos

Associate Clinical Professor

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Dawn Bowdish

PhD

Professor, Division of Respirology

Executive Director, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health;
Canada Research Chair in Aging and Immunity (Tier 2)

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Manoela Braga

Associate Professor

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Michael Brain

Professor Emeritus

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Jonathan Bramson

PhD

Vice-Dean, Research

Professor, Division of Hematology & Thromboembolism; John Bienenstock Chair in Molecular Medicine

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Daniel Brandt Vegas

MD, MPHE

Associate Professor

Scholar, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

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Anne Braun

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Craig Brick

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Scott Brimble

MD, MSc., FRCP(C)

Professor

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Annie Brooks

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Dina Brooks

PhD

Professor

Executive Vice-Dean, Associate Vice-President, Academic | Vice-Dean & Executive Director, School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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William Brown

Professor (Part-time)

Jan Brozek

MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Ian Buchanan

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

Point-Of-Care-Ultrasound (POCUS) Fellowship Program Director

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Sean Bulley

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Andrew Burke

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Kristen Burrows

MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Miles Byworth

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Kathryn Cameron

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Alberto Caminero Fernandez

Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Douglas Family Chair in Gastroenterology Research

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Carley Campbell

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Yang Cao

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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David Cape

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Stephanie Carlin

Assistant Professor

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Rajendra Carmona

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Nathan Carpenter

Assistant Clinical Professor

Luciana Catanese

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

Stroke Fellowship Program Director

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Zain Chagla

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Debarati Chakraborty

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Amitabha Chakroborty

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Chris Chan

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Daniel Chan

Assistant Clinical Professor

Noel Chan

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Terence Chan

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Teresa Chan

MD, MHPE, FRCPC, DRCPSC

Clinical Professor

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William Chan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Winnie Chan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Natasha Chandok

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Peter Channan

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Madhu Chari

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Vinjamuri Chari

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Laurence Chau

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Dipayan Chaudhuri

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Jihong Chen

Associate Professor

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Robert Chernish

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Andrew Cheung

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

Internal Medicine Clerkship Director

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Jason Cheung

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Jessica Cheung

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Genevieve Chick

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Alvin Chin

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Agnes Chmiel

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

Spinal Cord Injury Program Director, Fellowship Director

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Andrew Chow

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Derek Chu

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor
Food and Drug Allergy Fellowship Director

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MD, FRCPC

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MD, FRCPC

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Han-Oh Chung

MSc, MD, FRCPC

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David Churchill

Professor Emeritus

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MD, FRCPC

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Alfred Cividino

MD, FRCPC, FACR

Professor Emeritus

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David Clark

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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Catherine Clase

MB BChir, BA, MSc, FRCPC

Professor

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Stephen Collins

MBBS, FRCPC, FRSC

Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

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David Conen

MD, MPH

Associate Professor

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MD, FRCPC

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MD, FRCPC

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MD, FRCPC

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Katherine Connolly

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Michael Connolly

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Assistant Clinical Professor

Deborah Cook

MD, FRCPC, MSc, DABIM

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David Cowan

MD, MIR, FRCPC

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Conor Cox

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Education and Professional Standing

Dr. Cox qualified in 1981 from UCD, Ireland. He trained in respiratory medicine at McMaster University and continued training in basic science at McMaster University and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. He joined the faculty at McMaster University in 1992 where he continued his research into the basic mechanisms that control inflammation during respiratory diseases. Currently, he is Head of Acute Clinical Services at the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. In addition, he is President of the Canadian Thoracic Society.

Clinical Interests

In addition to general respirology, Dr. Cox has a special interest in interstitial lung diseases such as sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis. In association with Dr. Martin Kolb, he runs a dedicated clinic at FIRH-SJHH, caring for patients with these uncommon disorders.

Selected Publications

Induced sputum: Validity of fluid-phase IL-5 measurement. JACI 2000; 105:1162-8
NO+ but not free radical relaxes airway smooth muscle via cGMP-independent release of internal Ca2+. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2000; 278
Excitatory and inhibitory actions of isoprostanes in human and canine airway smooth muscle. J Pharmacol and Exper Therapeutics 2000; 295:506-511
Eosinophil cationic protein relates to sputum neutrophil counts in health subjects. JACI 2000;106:593-4
A randomized, controlled trial comparing thorascopy and limited thoracotomy for lung biopsy in interstitial lung disease. Ann Thorac Surg 2000; 70:1647-50
Nicotine replacement combined with a novel compound (ProBAN ) for smoking cessation: a pilot study. Can Respir J 2001; 163:85-90
Coronary and laryngeal spasm provoked by methacholine inhalation. JACI 2001; 107:392-3
Increased detection of interluekin-5 in sputum by addition of protease inhibitors. Eur Respir J. 2001; 18:685-91
The effect of air filtration systems on asthma: A systematic review of randomized trials. Chest. 2002 Nov;122 (5):1535-42
Cysteinyl leukotrienes and human airway smooth muscle migration. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002 Sep 1; 166 (5):738-42

Research Interests: Mechanisms of disease and development of novel strategies for diagnosis and therapy based on improved understanding of how respiratory diseases arise. Current projects examine the accumulation of cells during pulmonary inflammation and the structural consequences of chronic inflammation. Clinical research examines the potential for lung cancer to be detected using the examination of sputum. In collaboration with Dr. John Miller of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Cox is examining the potential role of bronchial thermoplasty (a bronchoscopic procedure) as a treatment for asthma.

Gerard Cox

MD, MB, FRCPCI, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

Coordinator, Regional Clinical Programs in Respirology; St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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John Crossley

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Mark Crowther

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine

Leo Pharma Chair in Thromboembolism Research; Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Pathology and Molecular Medicine associate member

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Fulan Cui

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Nora Cullen

MD, MSc

Professor, CAWAR

Division Director for PM&R, Chief of PM&R at HHSC and St Joseph’s Healthcare

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Gregory Curnew

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Anna Cvetkovic

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Michael Cyr

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Ryan D'sa

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Cristiana Da Cunha Zeno Borjaille

Assistant Professor

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Saeed Darvish-Kazem

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Clive Davis

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Serajedden Dawehr

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Henry Ddungu

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Giada De Palma

PhD

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

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Danielle de Sa Boasquevisque

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

Kerstin de Wit

MBChB, BSc, MSc, MD

Associate Professor (Part-time)

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Andrea Delrue

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Catherine Demers

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor
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Judah Denburg

MD, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Clinical Immunology & Allergy

William J. Walsh Chair in Medicine

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Zhihui (Joy) Deng

MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Brittany Dennis

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Shariff Dessouki

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Philip Devereaux

MD, PhD

Professor

Salim Yusuf Chair in Cardiology; Director, Division of Cardiology and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Surgical Research Group at PHRI

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Gousia Dhhar

Assistant Professor

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Rajwinder Dhillon

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Sandeep Dhillon

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Jeffrey Dickhout

Lecturer (Adjunct)

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Armela Dicu

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Joana Dida

Assistant Clinical Professor

Nicole Didyk

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Assistant Professor

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Joanna Dionne

Assistant Professor

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Syamkumar Divakara Menon

Associate Professor

Electrophysiology & Cardiac Pacing Fellowship Director

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Sanjay Dixit

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Vladimir Djuric

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Professor Myrna Dolovich has been active in aerosol research for the past 40 years. Graduating from McGill University with a degree in electrical engineering, she worked, in the early years of her career, with renowned pulmonary physiologists Drs Joseph Milic-Emili and David Bates to expand our understanding of regional ventilation in the normal and diseased lung using gamma scintigraphic methods. Similar imaging techniques were applied to establish the methodologies currently used for assessing distribution of inhaled therapeutic aerosols in the lung. At St Joseph’s Hospital and McMaster University, working with Drs M Newhouse, J Sanchis and G Coates, she studied deposition and mucociliary clearance from the lung using these scintigraphic methods, also assessing performance of therapeutic inhalers for delivering drug to the lungs of asthmatics, cystic fibrosis and COPD patients. Development of the Aerochamber™ for patient use was a focus of early research for the St Joseph’s Hospital Aerosol Group. Most recently, newer 3D imaging methods, namely positron emission tomography (PET), have been applied to assess the sites of inflammation in patients as well as mapping deposition patterns of inhaled aerosols in 3D.

Other Activities

Aerosol School, 3-day teaching program with practical laboratory experience in aerosol basics, aerosol measurements and techniques and applications to research and pharmaceutical laboratory and clinical settings was established by Dolovich in 2009 with support from the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM). It has become an annual program and is currently scheduled for October 2015.

Myrna has served on the Board of Directors of ISAM and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery and Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. She is a member of the Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee – Respiratory and Allergy Therapies (SAC-RT), joining in 2006. In 2009, she was awarded the ISAM Career Achievement Award for contributions to medical aerosol research.

Publications

Publications include a recognized resource text on aerosols (Aerosols in Medicine: Principles, Diagnosis and Therapy. 1st and 2nd editions, eds. Morén F, Dolovich M. Newhouse M, Newman S. Elsevier Science Publishers 1989,1994). Selected research papers of major importance to the field are:

Aerosol Penetrance: A Sensitive Index of Peripheral Airways Obstruction. M. Dolovich, J. Sanchis, C. Rossman, M.T. Newhouse. J Appl Physiol 1976; 40(3): 468-471. Defined a method for assessing delivery of aerosols to target sites in the lung.
A comparison of submicronic technetium aerosol with xenon-127 for ventilation studies. Coates G, Dolovich M, Newhouse M. Proceedings of 3rd World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Paris, France: Pergamon Press, 1982; II: 2014-2020. Validated the first use of a submicronic (extra-fine) aerosol to measure lung ventilation.
The Effect of Preferential Deposition of Histamine in the Human Airway. R.E. Ruffin, M.B. Dolovich, R.K. Wolff, M.T. Newhouse. Am Rev Respir Dis 1978; 117(3):485-592. Importance to response in targeting aerosols to different sites in the lung.
Clinical Evaluation of the Aerochamber: A Simple Demand Inhalation MDI Aerosol Delivery Device. M. Dolovich, R. Ruffin, D. Corr, M. Newhouse. Chest 1983; 84:36-41. Validation for the Aerochamber® aerosol delivery system, (developed at St Joseph’s Hospital for pMDIs) and the clinical effects of tailoring inhalant aerosols.
Device selection and Outcomes of Aerosol Therapy: American College of Chest Physicians /American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Evidence-Based Guidelines. Dolovich M, Ahrens R, Hess D, Anderson P, Dhand R, Rau J, Smaldone GC, Guyatt G.. Chest 2005;127: 335-371; Systematic review of aerosol drug delivery devices.
Dolovich MB. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographic imaging of pulmonary functions, pathology, and drug delivery. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2009 Aug 15;6(5):477-85. doi: 10.1513/pats.200904-023AW. PubMed PMID: 19687222.
Dolovich MB, Dhand R. Aerosol drug delivery: developments in device design and clinical use. Lancet. 2011 Mar 19;377(9770):1032-45. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60926-9. Epub 2010 Oct 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 21036392.
Mitchell J, Dolovich MB. Clinically relevant test methods to establish in vitro equivalence for spacers and valved holding chambers used with pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs). J Aerosol Med Pulm Drug Deliv. 2012 Aug;25(4):217-42. doi: 10.1089/jamp.2011.0933. Review. PubMed PMID: 22857273
Dolovich MB, Bailey DL. Positron emission tomography (PET) for assessing aerosol deposition of orally inhaled drug products. J Aerosol Med Pulm Drug Deliv. 2012 Dec;25 Suppl 1:S52-71. doi: 10.1089/jamp.2012.1Su6. PubMed PMID: 23215847.
Yaghi A, Zaman A, Cox G, Dolovich MB. Ciliary beating is depressed in nasal cilia from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease subjects. Respir Med. 2012 Aug;106(8):1139-47. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.04.001. Epub 2012 May 17. PubMed PMID: 22608352.

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Research Interests: Research interests involve the in vitro and in vivo characterization of vaccine and medical aerosols from various types of drug delivery systems; use of both 2D and 3D PET imaging modalities to investigate factors which influence the deposition and distribution of aerosolized drugs in the lung. A related interest is the investigation of epithelial cell cilia function and structure utilizing nasal and bronchial cilia obtained from patients with various respiratory diseases. The data provides an assessment of the ability of the lung to clear secretions as well as the effects on this key lung defence mechanism of a variety of traditional and experimental therapies. Cell culture using human bronchial and nasal epithelial primary cells have been established to provide model systems for investigating disease mechanisms.

Myrna Dolovich

B.Eng., P.Eng

Professor (part-time)

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MB, FCP(SA), FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Kelly Dore

PhD

Lecturer (Adjunct)

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Irena Doubelt

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Andrew Doxey

Lecturer (Adjunct)

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Erick Duan

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Jim Ducharme

MD, CM, FRCP

Clinical Professor

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Mylinh Duong

MD, MBBS, FRCPC

Associate Professor
Head of Service, Respirology, Hamilton Health Sciences

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Robbie-Jane Eby

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Karen Edstrom

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Michelle Edwards

Assistant Clinical Professor

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John Eikelboom

MBBS, MSc, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Hematology & Thromboembolism

Jack Hirsh/PHRI Chair in Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research; Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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Phillipe El-Helou

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Adell Elsharif

Assistant Clinical Professor

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David Fahmy

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

Clinical Immunology & Allergy Residency Program Director

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Ernest Fallen

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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Leilani Famorca

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Ghada Farghaly

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Leonardo Farrauto

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Adrian Fawcett

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Florin Feloiu

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Houssein Fergani

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Aaron Fernandes

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ivone Ferreira

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Aidan Findlater

MSc, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Matthew Foster

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Alison Fox-Robichaud

MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Graeme Fraser

Associate Professor

Fellowship Director, Adult Hematology Residency Program Director

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Andreas Freitag

MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Oded Friedman

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Hugh Fuller

Professor Emeritus

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Filgen Fung

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Micheline Gagnon

MD, MEd, FRCPC, FACP

Professor

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Assistant Professor (Part Time)

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Heather Galipeau

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

Nagy Gallab

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Scott Gallichan

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

Michael Galvin

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Patti Galvin

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Javier Ganame

Associate Professor

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Anusoumya Ganapathy

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Mandark Gandhi

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Education and Professional Standing

MSc Health Research Methodology, McMaster University 2007
Clinician Investigator, RCPSC Certified, McMaster University 2007
Fellowship RCPSC, Nephrology 2004
Fellowship RCPSC, Internal Medicine 2003
MD, McMaster University 1999
BSc Pharmacy, St. John’s University 1992

Research Interests

Volume assessment in dialysis patients
Nocturnal hemodialysis
Case based learning in postgraduate medical education

Selected Publications

Gangji AS, El-Helal B, Brimble S, Churchill DN, Margetts PJ. Association between N Terminal Propeptide B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Markers of Hypervolemia. Perit Dial Int. 2008 May:28(3):308-11.
Gangji AS, Cukierman T, Gerstein HC, Goldsmith CH, Clase CM. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Hypoglycemia and Cardiovascular Events: A Comparison of Glyburide with Other Secretagogues and with Insulin. Diabetes Care. 2007 Feb:30(2):389-94.
Gangji AS, Sohal A, Treleaven D, Crowther M. Bleeding in Patients with Renal Insufficiency: A Practical Guide to Clinical Management. Thromb Res. 2006:118(3):423-8.
Sohal AS, Gangji AS, Crowther MA, Treleaven D. Uremic Bleeding: Pathophysiology and Clinical Risk Factors. Thromb Res. 2006:118(3):417-22.
Chang CY, Gangji AS, Chorneyko K, Kapoor A. Urological manifestations of BK polyomavirus in renal transplant recipients. Can J Urol. 2005 Oct:12(5):2829-36.
Gangji AS, Windrum R, Gandhi S, Silverman JA, Chan CT: Successful Pregnancy with Nocturnal Hemodialysis. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2004 Nov:44(5):912-6.
Gangji AS, Rabbat CG, Margetts PJ: Benefit of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Subgroups of Acutely Ill Patients: a Retrospective Analysis. Clinical Nephrology. 2004 Apr; 63(4):267-75.
Xenodemetropoulos T, Wasi P, Eva K, Norman G, Gangji AS. Introduction of a Case-Based Learning Cirriculum for PGY-3 Internal Medicine Residents. International Conference on Residency Education 2008. RCPSC 2008
Gangji AS, Margetts PJ, Churchill DN, Brimble KS, Wickenden TC, Wilkieson TJ, Bilyk L, Robinson K, Prieur A, Clase CM. Relationship Between Volume Status, Assessed by Bioimpedance and Modality in Prevalent and Incident Dialysis Patients. J Am Soc Nephrol; 18:257A.
Gangji AS, El-Helal B, Brimble S, Churchill DN, Margetts PJ: How Good is the Clinical Examination in the Assessment of Volume Status in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 2005. (Abstract F-P0594).
Gangji AS, El-Helal B, Brimble S, Churchill DN, Margetts PJ: Volume Expansion and Peritoneal Inflammation Correlate with Solute Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 2005. (Abstract F-P0593).

Research Interests: Volume assessment in dialysis patients, Nocturnal hemodialysis, Case based learning in postgraduate medical education

Azim Gangji

MSc, Pharm, FRCPC, FACP

Professor

Director, Nephrology Fellowship Programs; Committee Chair, Medicine Specialty Programs; Vice President, Education, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

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MD, FRCPC

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Gail Gauvreau

PhD

Professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Jacob Gelberg

MD, FRCP(C)

Assistant clinical professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct),

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Federico Germini

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

Hertzel Gerstein

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Population Health Institute Chair in Diabetes Research and Care; Senior Advisor - Centre for Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes Research

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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Rose Giammarco

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Stephen Giilck

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Ammar Gilani

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Amy Gillgrass

PhD

Lecturer (Adjunct)

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MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Christopher Gombay

Lecturer (Adjunct)

Raymond Gottschalk

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Sharon Grad

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Maryan Graiss

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Jay Green

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Joseph Greenbaum

MD, FRCPC, Board Certified ACP (Allergy)

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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Eric Greenwald

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Alisha Greer

Assistant Clinical Professor

Laura Gregor

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Kathleen Gregory-Miller

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Peter Gross

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Ashok Grover

MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus

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MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Serena Gundy

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Gaurav Gupta

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Gordon Guyatt

Distinguished Professor

Department of Medicine

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MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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Derek Haaland

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Thomas Haffner

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Shariq Haider

MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Smita Halder

MBChB, PhD, MRCP

Associate Professor

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MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor
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Nathan Hambly

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Assistant Clinical Professor

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Rajendar Hanmiah

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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William Harper

MD, FRCPC, ABIM

Associate Professor

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Lawrence Hart

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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Professor Emeritus

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Michael Hartmann

PhD, MBA

Professor

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David Harvey

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Aasim Hasany

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Michael Hatcher

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Kristopher Hawley

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Bennett Haynen

Assistant Clinical Professor

REL Niagara Campus Clerkship Coordinator

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Christopher Hayes

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Catherine Hayward

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor

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Melissa Hayward

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Andrew Healey

MD, FRCPC, Registered Diagnostic Medical and Cardiac Sonography (ARDMS)

Associate Clinical Professor

Director of Emergency Targeted Sonography, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

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Jeffrey Healey

MD, MSc

Professor; Director, Division of Cardiology

Salim Yusuf Chair in Cardiology; Director of Arrhythmia Services, Hamilton General Hospital

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Nancy Heddle

FCSMLS, MSc

Professor Emeriti

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Michael Heffernan

Assistant Clinical Professor

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George Heigenhauser

Professor Emeritus

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Eric Hentschel

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Jeremy Hernandez

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Manuel Herrera

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

Ali Hersi

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Waseem Hindleh

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Jeremy Hirota

PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Respirology

Canada Research Chair in Respiratory Mucosal Immunology (Tier 2)

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Jack Hirsh

Professor Emeritus

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Joanne Ho

MD, FRCPC, MSc

Associate Professor

Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship Director, Schlegel Chair in Geriatrics and Pharmacotherapy

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Terence Ho

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Hailey Hobbs

Assistant Professor

Anne Holbrook

MD, PharmD, MSc, FRCP(C)

Professor

Division Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

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Doug Holder

Professor Emeritus

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Paul Hong

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Paul Hosek

Assistant Clinical Professor (Part-Time)

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Khaled Hossam Ahmed

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Seyed Hosseini

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Brandon Howell

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Jan Huizinga

PhD

Professor

Program Director, Farncombe Institute

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Dereck Hunt

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Richard Hunt

Professor Emeritus

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Saima Husain

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Nadira Husein

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Adnan Hussain

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Fatima Hussain

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Amanda Tieu-Mi Huynh

Clinical Scholar

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Jennifer Huynh

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Jessica Tieu-Uyen Huynh

Clinical Scholar

Juravinski Site Coordinator

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Alexander Hynes

PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Farncombe Family Chair in Phage Biology

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Perry Hystad

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Khaled Ibrahim

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Rick Ikesaka

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Alistair Ingram

MD, FRCPC

Professor Emeritus

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Dr. Mark Inman completed his initial training in exercise physiology at the University of Waterloo (BSc ’84, MSc ’86). He then came to McMaster University to study the mechanics of breathing with Drs Kieran Killian and Moran Campbell (PhD ’93). During this time he also completed a medical degree (MD ’93). Rather than continuing with clinical training, Dr Inman chose to pursue a career in medical research, and began a 4 year post doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr Paul O’Byrne. At this time, Dr Inman’s research activities were divided between studies of the management of exercise induced bronchoconstriction and the role of the bone marrow in supporting allergen induced inflammation. Following his post-doctoral training, Dr Inman accepted a faculty position within the department of Medicine at McMaster. Since joining the faculty, Dr Inman has divided his time between research and educational activites. His research had focused on the mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness, a condition thought to play a major role in the frequent episodes of bronchoconstriction experienced by patients with asthma. To address this, Dr Inman has relied on models of allergen induced airway disease in mice, as well as sophisticated technology with which to assess lung function in small animals. Many of the models and research techniques were developed within Dr Inman’s laboratory, either by his graduate students or his technicians, Russ Ellis and Jennifer Wattie. To date, Dr Inman has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts. Dr Inman’s teaching interests have remained in the area of respiratory physiology; he currently teaches a graduate course in Respiratory Physiology that is also part of the required training for respirology residents at McMaster. Dr Inman also has a lifelong interest in research design and frequently offers sessions addressing common misunderstandings in various graduate student training forums.

Research Interests: Mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness, a condition thought to play a major role in the frequent episodes of bronchoconstriction experienced by patients with asthma

Mark Inman

BSc, MSc, PhD, MD

Professor

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

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George Ioannidis

PhD

Associate Professor

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The Health Information Research Unit (HiRU), founded by Brian Haynes, is a knowledge refinery, whose main activity is maintaining the McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (McMaster PLUS), a second-order peer review database of methodologically sound, clinically relevant and newsworthy peer reviewed publications. McPLUS is used for many purposes, including:

identifying candidate papers for abstraction (American College of Physicians Journal Club, a monthly feature in the of Annals of Internal Medicine);
providing discipline specific news feeds via the DynaMed sponsored Evidence Alerts service, or the ACP sponsored JournalWise evidence feed;
identifying candidate papers for triggering BMJ Wiki recs;
feeding evidence into a suite of discipline specific products like Clot+, Pain+, Prevention+, the Optimal Aging Portal and, more recently, COVID-19+ EvidenceAlerts.

HiRU has created the Clinical Query filters available on the PubMed search engine and, more recently, developed a machine learning based, highly specific algorithm to retrieve sound and clinically relevant literature.

HiRU is open to potential collaborations with any academic, not-for-profit or commercial organization whose aim is to disseminate high quality evidence. For further details on HiRU’s knowledge translation research program, click here.

The clinical research program is centered on the application of information technology to optimize the clinical management of rare bleeding disorders. The McMaster Hemophilia Research Program, based and partly supported by the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, runs a worldwide epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology research program based on the following infrastructure: a) the Canadian Bleeding Disorder Registry (CBDR), supporting clinical activities of all bleeding disorder centers in Canada and feeding a central anonymized data repository; b) the Web-available Population Pharmacokinetic Service (WAPPS) and research network, the gold standard for personalized treatment for hemophilia, covering over 550 centers worldwide, producing PopPK estimates at the point of care for all available factor concentrates; c) the Patient Reported Outcome, Burden and Experiences (PROBE), a multilingual assessment tool and research network aiming to generate robust comparative effectiveness data. For further details, click here.

Teaching

Course Coordinator and Lecturer, Health Research Methodology Course #777 (Diagnosis and Prognosis)

Lecturer, Health Research Methodology Course #721 (Introduction to Health Research Methodology) Teaching Unit: Prognostic studies

Other scholarly activities

Dr. Iorio is an Associate Editor of the Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Review Group of Cochrane, and a member of Cochrane’s Prognosis Method Group.

He is past Chair of the Data and Demographics Committee of the World Federation of Haemophilia (WFH), Co-Chair of the World Bleeding Disorder Registry (WFH), a member of the GRADE Working Group, and a member of the COVID-END initiative.

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Research Interests: knowledge translation research; medical informatics

Alfonso Iorio

MD, PhD, FRCPC

Professor

Chair, HEI

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Peter Ip Fung Chun

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ali Iqbal

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Neal Irfan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Mary Jackson

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Roman Jaeschke

Dr Med, MSc

Professor

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Armeen Jafri

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ankur Jain

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Vipul Jain

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Yasmin Jajarmi

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Subash Jalali

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Massoud Jalayer

Associate Clinical Professor

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Luke Janssen

MSc, PhD

Professor Emeritus

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

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Farah Jazuli

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Lorraine Jensen

Associate Clinical Professor

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Matthew Jessome

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Gabriel Jeyasingham

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Shalini Jha

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Draga Jichici

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor

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Rodrigo Jimenez-Saiz

MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Social determinants of health and health system design

Neil Johnston and Steve Buist (Investigations Editor, Hamilton Spectator) designed and executed the “Code Red” project between 2007 and 2010. Using health service, education records and socio-economic data, neighbourhoods in the City of Hamilton were profiled for socio-economic and health status and consumption of health services. The Code Red series was published over seven days in the Hamilton Spectator and was designed to stimulate a community debate about variation in health status between neighbourhoods and health system re-design. The series won a National Newspaper award for special projects and was shortlisted for the Michener prize. Johnston and Buist won the 2011 Hillman Prize for journalism fostering social and economic justice.

Physician Human Resource Planning

Neil Johnston founded (1992) and oversees the Ontario Physician Human resources Data Center on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ontario Medical Association, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine. OPHRDC is the definitive information resource for physician human resource planning in Ontario.

Selected Publications

Neil W. Johnston, Kim Lambert, Patricia Hussack, Maria Gerhardsson de Verdier, Tim Higenbottam, Jonathan Lewis, Paul Newbold, Martin Jenkins, Geoff R. Norman, Peter.V. Coyle, and R. Andrew McIvor. Detection of COPD Exacerbations and Compliance with Patient Reported Daily Symptom Diaries Using a SmartPhone-Based Information System. Chest 2013 Aug;144(2):507-14.
Patrick F DeLuca, Neil Johnston & Steve Buist. The Code Red Project: Engaging Communities in Health System Change in Hamilton, Canada. Social Indicators Research 2012;108 (2):317-327.
Johnston NW.The Similarities and Differences of Epidemic Cycles of COPD and Asthma Exacerbations. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 2007;4:591-596.
Johnston NW, Mandhane PJ, Dai J, Duncan JM, Greene JM, Lambert K, Sears MR. Attenuation of the September epidemic of asthma exacerbations in children: A randomized controlled trial of montelukast added to usual therapy. Pediatrics. 2007 Sep;120(3):e702-12.
Johnston NW, Johnston SL, Dai J, Norman GR, Sears MR. The September epidemic of asthma exacerbations: School children as disease vectors. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2006;117:557-62.

Research Interests: The role of viral infections in acute exacerbations of asthma and COPD and IPF. Respiratory viral infections are the single most important factor in the genesis of asthma, COPD and possibly IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) exacerbations. International comparisons of the determinants and distribution of epidemic cycles of asthma and COPD and the factors responsible for them are the focus of current studies.

Neil Johnston

MSc

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

Epidemiologist, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health

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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Sanjit Jolly

BSc, MD, FRCPS

Professor, Division of Cardiology

Stuart Connolly-PHRI Chair in Cardiovascular Research

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Shivinder Jolly

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Graham Jones

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Norman Jones

Professor Emeritus

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Manel Jordana

MD, PhD

Professor

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Meera Joseph

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor
Co-Director Geriatric Nephrology Fellowship

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Philip Joseph

Associate Professor

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Raed Joundi

Assistant Professor

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Salina Juma

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Patrick Jung

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Renate Kahlke

PhD

Assistant Professor

Scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

Faculty

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Abdel Kaleel

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Jean-Claude Kalenga

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Navya Kalidindi

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Dale Kalina

MD, MBA, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Robert Kalyesubula

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Mark Kamath

PhD, P. Eng

Professor Emeritus

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Olfat Kamel Hasan

MBChB, FRCR, FRCPSC

Assistant Professor

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Matthew Kang

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Andrew Kapoor

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Jessica Kapralik

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Ali Kara

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Tim Karachi

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

Critical Care Division Director; Critical Care Program Director

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Arsha Karbassi

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Yacoob Kathrada

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Aristeidis Katsanos

Assistant Professor (Special)

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Paul Katz

Professor (Part-time)

Charu Kaushic

PhD

Professor

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Sabina Keen

MD, FRCPC

Associate Clinical Professor
Fellowship Director

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Rohan Kehar

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Paul Keith

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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John Kelton

MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Courtney Kennedy

PhD

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

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Flavia Kessler Borges

Associate Professor

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Zahira Khalid

MD, MBBS, FRCPC

Associate Professor

General Internal Medicine Residency Program Director

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Nader Khalidi

MD, FRCPC

Professor; Director, Division of Rheumatology
AbbVie Chair in Education in Rheumatology, Vasculitis Fellowship Program Director, Scleroderma Fellowship Program Director

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Abubaker Khalifa

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Aliya Khan is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Geriatrics at McMaster University, Director of the Calcium Disorders Clinic, and Director of the Fellowship in Metabolic Bone Disease at McMaster University. She graduated from the University of Ottawa Medical School with honors. She trained in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology and also completed a fellowship in Metabolic Bone Disease at the University of Toronto. She has published over 200 scientific papers and numerous chapters and books on osteoporosis and parathyroid disease.

Dr. Khan led the development of global guidelines for parathyroid disease, osteonecrosis of the jaw, new diagnostic criteria for hypophosphatasia , as well as treatment guidelines for X-linked hypophosphatemia in addition to Canadian guidelines for osteoporosis.

She is the principle investigator evaluating novel therapies for parathyroid disease including PTH and PTH analogues as well PTH1receptor agonists for the treatment of hypoparathyroidism including palopegteriparatide, natpar, eneboparatide as well as the calcilytic molecule encalaret for the treatment of autosomal dominant hypocalcemia. In addition she was the principle investigator evaluating bisphosphonate therapy as well as the calcimetic cinacalcet for the medical management of primary hyperparathyroidism.

She has received numerous national and international awards including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for excellence, International Hypoparathyroidism Award, International Osteoporosis Foundation award for publishing excellence and recognized by Osteoporosis Canada for outstanding contributions to research and education. In 2024 she was the recipient of the Woman Physician of the Year Award by the American College of Physicians (ACP) Ontario Chapter honoring an outstanding woman physician with a distinguished career in areas of exceptional patient care, medical education and/or research. She also received the ACP Humanitarian of the Year Award given for outstanding contributions to humanism in medicine and also recognizes scholarly activities in literature, philosophy, and ethics. She is recognized as being in the top 0.1% of the world experts in hyperparathyroidism by Expertscape

Aliya Khan

MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FASBMR

Clinical Professor

Fellowship Director, Metabolic Bone Disease

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Khurram Khan

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Omar Khan

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Vikas Khera

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Aditya Khetan

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor

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Faiza Khokhar

Assistant Professor

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Kieran Killian

MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Harold Kim

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

Hahn Hoe Kim

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Paul Kim

PhD

Associate Professor

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Simon Kim

Assistant Clinical Professor (Part-Time)

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Christine King

Assistant Clinical Professor

Allan Kitching

Assistant Clinical Professor

Faculty

Christine Knight

Education Program Assistant, Internal Medicine Residency Program

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Joshua Koenig

PhD

Assistant Professor

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Sandeep Kohli

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Dr. Martin Kolb is an associate professor of medicine and director of research for the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph’s Healthcare. He obtained his MD from the University of Würzburg, Germany in 1991, where he also completed a PhD equivalent in Experimental Respirology in 2003. He trained with Dr. Jack Gauldie at McMaster University from 1999-2001 and they closely collaborate since then on basic and translational projects in pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Kolb runs a specialty clinic for interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary fibrosis at St. Joseph’s Healthcare and is involved as Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member in several multi-center trials for lung fibrosis. Dr. Kolb has published more than 80 scientific articles and is Deputy Editor for Respirology and on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Research
Dr. Kolb’s major research area is focused on mechanisms of lung injury, repair and fibrosis, particularly in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He has a strong interest in growth factor biology (e.g. TGF? and IL-1), extracellular matrix, and mesenchymal cell progenitors (mesenchymal stem cells and fibrocytes). In his lab he uses a variety of animal models to study disease mechanisms and also the efficacy of novel drugs in the preclinical setting. Dr. Kolb leads activities in biomarker development for lung fibrosis and he participates as Principal Investigator and Steering Committee members in numerous clinical trials on interstitial lung disease. Dr. Kolb has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Pathology, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Immunology, European Respiratory Journal and many others. He is/was funded by CIHR, NIH, CFI, OTS and different Pharma companies over the years. He has received career awards from the Parker B. Francis Families Foundation, the Department of Medicine at McMaster and the New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institute for Health Research.

Clinical Activities

Dr. Kolb looks after several hundred patients with interstitial lung disease in his specialty clinic and also practices in General Respirology. He is medical staff at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton for Respirology and General Internal Medicine. Clinic bookings can be made through extension x35003.

Current standing

Associate professor, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine and Pathology & Molecular Medicine; Reseach director; Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St. Joseph’s Healthcare
Specialty clinic for interstitial lung disease and lung fibrosis
Inpatient service for general internal medicine, respirology and ICU
Consulting service

Education and professional standing

M.D., University of Würzburg, Germany, 1991
Residency, Anatomical Pathology, University Erlangen/Nürnberg
Residency, General Internal and Respiratory Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany, 1993
Postdoctoral research fellowship in pulmonary fibrosis with Dr. Jack Gauldie, McMaster University, 1999
Habilitation for Internal Medicine (PhD equivalent ), Germany, 2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, McMaster, 2003
Department of Medicine and the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, 2004
Research Director, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, 2009
Director, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University 2013

Selected publications

Richeldi L, du Bois RM, Raghu G, Azuma A, Brown KK, Costabel U, Cottin V, Flaherty KR, Hansell DM, Inoue Y, Kim DS, Kolb M, Nicholson AG, Noble PW, Selman M, Taniguchi H, Brun M, Le Maulf F, Girard M, Stowasser S, Schlenker-Herceg R, Disse B, Collard HR. Efficacy and Safety of Nintedanib in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. N Engl J Med. 2014 May 29;370(22):2071-82.
Bellaye PS, Wettstein G, Burgy O, Besnard V, Joannes A, Colas J, Causse S, Marchal-Somme J, Fabre A, Crestani B, Kolb MRJ, Gauldie J, Camus P, Garrido C, Bonniaud P. The small heat shock protein ?B-crystallin is essential for the nuclear localization of Smad4: impact on pulmonary fibrosis. J Pathol 2014; 232: 458–472.
Wettstein G, Bellaye PS, Kolb MRJ, Hammann A, Crestani B, Soler P, Marchal-Somme J, Hazoume A, Gauldie J, Gunther A, Micheau O, Gleave M, Camus P, Garrido C, Bonniaud P. Inhibition of HSP27 blocks fibrosis development and EMT features by promoting snail degradation. FASEB J. 2013 Apr;27(4):1549-60
Hanumegowda C, Farkas L, Kolb MRJ. Angiogenesis in Pulmonary Fibrosis-Too much or not enough? Chest 2012 July 1;142(1):200-7
Farkas L, Gauldie J, Voelkel N F, Kolb MRJ. Pulmonary Hypertension and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis-A Tale of Angiogenesis, Apoptosis and Growth Factors. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2011 Jul;45(1):1-15
Farkas L, Ask K, Möller A, Farkas D, Margetts PJ, Gauldie J, Inman M, Kolb MRJ. VEGF-mediated angiogenesis ameliorates pulmonary hypertension in an animal model of lung fibrosis. J Clin Invest 2009;119(5):1298-311
Möller A, Gilpin SE, Ask K, Cox G, Cook DJ, Gauldie J, Margetts PJ, Farkas L, Dobranowski J, Boylan C, O’Byrne PM, Strieter RM, Kolb MRJ. Circulating Fibrocytes are an indicator for poor prognosis in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2009; 179(7):588-94

Martin Kolb

MD, PhD

Professor

Jack Gauldie Boehringer Ingelheim Chair in Interstitial Lung Disease; Research Director, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health

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Anna Korol

PhD, MSc

Assistant Professor

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Marian Kotrec

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Dan Kottachchi

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Yousery Koubaesh

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Eva Kovacs

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Natalie Kozij

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Christian Kraeker

MD, MSc, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Peter Kraus

MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor

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Joel Krause

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Joan Krepinsky

MSc, MD, FRCPC

Professor

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Colin Kretz

PhD

Associate Professor

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Gautham Krishnaraj

Lecturer (Adjunct)

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Rebecca Kruisselbrink

Assistant Clinical Professor

Regional Education Lead, Waterloo Regional Campus

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Hala Kufaishi

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Joda Kuk

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Om Kurmi

BSc, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor (Part-Time)

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David Kwan

Professor Emeritus

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Barbara L'Ami

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Noura Labib

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Anna Labuda

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Karim Ladak

MB, BCh, BAO

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Jamil Ladha

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Danny Lagrotteria

Assistant Clinical Professor

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Kerry Lake

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Sarrah Lal

MBA

Assistant Professor (Part-time)

Member, McMaster Education Research, Innovation & Theory (MERIT) Program

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Jasmine Lamba

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Michael Lang

MD, FRCPC

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

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Caillin Langmann

Assistant Clinical Professor
Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director

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