I am the principal investigator of the Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program (RESP), and Associate Professor at The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. I am an epidemiologist and health outcomes researcher....

Dr. Don Sin is the Canada Research Chair in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the head of Respiratory Medicine at Providence Health Care in Vancouver. According to Expertscape, he is the #1 medical expert in COPD across North America and 2nd in the...

Kate Johnson is assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences followed by a postdoctoral...

Larry received his B.S.P. in 1986 from the University of Saskatchewan and his Ph.D. in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia in 2002. He then completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in health economics wit...

Sarah received her BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Lethbridge in 2006. She has since worked in industry, public healthcare and academia in a variety of research areas including cardiovascular and analgesic pharmacology, cognitive behaviour and p...

Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald graduated from University College Dublin in 1978. After interning and training in Internal Medicine in Dublin, he worked for two years in Lesotho, Southern Africa as a General Internist. Subsequently, he completed post-graduate train...

Amin is a bioengineer and a research analyst at CORE since 2017. He currently contributes to clinical data analysis, whole-disease simulation modeling, and software development for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Amin has a multidisciplinary...

Harry Lee is a PhD student in the Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is part of a nationwide team (funded by Genome Canada) that seeks to develop biomarkers and interventions that would ultimately preven...

Safa is an MSc student in the Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program (RESP). As part of her thesis, she is assessing the cost-effectiveness of using Azithromycin for preventing exacerbations in COPD. Holding a BSc in Computer Engineering from Sharif Unive...

Kristina Michaux is a research coordinator for the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) team in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is a formally trained nutrition scientist specializing in global food security and public healt...

Dr. Stephanie Harvard is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She received a PhD in Population and Public Health in a joint pr...

Joseph Ho is a MSc student in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Being a recent graduate of the UBC Doctor of Pharmacy program, Joseph hopes to further his expertise as a health care provider through researching the macro aspects of healthcare. His re...

Dr. Rebecca Metcalfe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She completed her PhD at UBC in Population and Public with an emphasis on decision science in 2021. Dr. Metcalfe uses qu...

Mehrshad received his medical doctorate from Tehran University of Medical Science in 2002. He was the designer and technical manager of a team which implemented first Hospital Information System in Iran. He graduated in Master of Medical Information Techno...

Joseph received a PhD in Medicine from Memorial University in 2021 with concentrations in Epidemiology/Pharmacoepidemiology study of airway diseases of asthma, COPD and asthma-COPD overlap. Using the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink of...