Program Committee

John Cairns MD, FRCPC

Professor, Division of Cardiology

Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Dawn Cooper PhD

Instructor, tenure track

Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, UBC

Mark FitzGerald MB, MD, FRCPC, FRCPI

Professor and Head, Division of Respiratory Medicine, UBC

Co-Director Institute for Heart + Lung Health

Gordon A. Francis MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine

Director, Heart and Stroke Foundation Lipid Research Laboratory

Director, Healthy Heart Program Prevention Clinic

UBC James Hogg Research Centre

Institute for Heart + Lung Health, UBC

Jasmine Grewal MD

Associate Clinical Professor, Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine UBC

Darryl Knight PhD

Canada Research Chair in Airway Disease

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and

Therapeutics, UBC

Associate Director, James Hogg Research Centre

Scott Lear PhD

Adjunct Professor, Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine UBC

Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Prevention Research, St. Paul’s Hospital

Bruce McManus MD, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS

Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Co-Director Institute for Heart + Lung Health

Director, UBC James Hogg Research Centre

Director, NCE CECR Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre)

Ed Pryzdial PhD

Clinical Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UBC

Scientist, Canadian Blood Services

Simon Rabkin MD

Professor, Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine UBC

Monica Spisar PhD

Education/IMPACT Coordinator

UBC James Hogg Research Centre

Stuart Turvey MBBS, DPhil, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine UBC

Pearce Wilcox MD, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine UBC