Tony Bai MD, FRACP, FRCP(C), FACP
Dr. Bai is a Respirologist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, and aand a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is Medical Director of the Asthma Education Center at the hospital, and is an investigator at the James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research at the hospital.
Dr. Bai earned his medical degree from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he also completed graduate studies in physiology and pharmacology. He trained in respiratory medicine at St. Thomas Hospital Medical School in London, England, and in respiratory research at the Meakins-Christie Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Bai is a member of the Canadian asthma guidelines committee, and has been a member of several Federal committees, including the CIHR respiratory committee and the Federal Government Task Force on Asthma.. Dr. Bai has authored more than 100 publications focused on airway biology and determinants of asthma severity.
Lindsay M. Lawson, B. Sc., M. Sc., MDCM, FRCPC
Clinical Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine
University of British Columbia
Dr. Lawson earned her medical degree from McGill University and went on to complete speciality and sub-speciality training in Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She has been in active clinical practice since 1982.
Dr. Lawson sees the full scope of lung and chest problems in her practice but her special areas of interest are asthma and the pulmonary complications of HIV disease. She is the Managing Associate of PLHC.
Other Activities
At St. Paul's, Dr. Lawson is the Physician Leader for Ambulatory Care for the Department of Medicine and is also Medical Director of the Medical Short Stay Unit. She sits on the editorial board of the BC Medical Journal, is an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Education/Training
B. Sc: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 1968
M. Sc: McGill University, Montreal, PQ, 1974
MDCM: McGill University, Montreal, PQ, 1974
Internship in Internal Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 1974-75
Resident in Internal Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 1975-76
Resident in Internal Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC, 1977-79
Fellowship in Respiratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC, 1979-82
Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC
Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC trained in Respiratory Medicine at McGill University in Montreal and subsequently worked as a respirologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal for 10 years. He was the Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratories at the Royal Victoria and Montreal Chest Hospitals and a Research Director at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories. He moved to Vancouver in 1997 where he is a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He initially practiced respiratory medicine in the Respiratory Division of the Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre. In September 2002, Dr. Levy took over the position of Head of the Division of Respirology at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. He is currently the Medical Director of the Lung Transplant Program at the British Columbia Transplant Society and is co-director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. Levy has published extensively in the fields of respiratory medicine and lung transplantation. His major research interests are related to physiologic and functional outcomes following solid organ transplantation. He has served as an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Respiratory Medicine. He was co-chair of the Canadian Lung Transplant Study Group from 1997-2001, and has served on the board of the Canadian Thoracic Society since 1997 where he is currently Chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Committee.
Paul Man MD, FRCP (C)
Dr. Man earned his medical degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1970. He did post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Respirology at the University of Toronto and a research fellowship at both the University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Man's research expertise is in clinical trials and translational research, particularly in chronic obstructive lung disease.
The clinical outcomes in COPD are unexpectedly influenced by the premature development of atherosclerosis. In close collaboration with Dr. Don Sin, another iCapture investigator, we have been trying to understand epidemiological observations in clinical context, and to design and execute clinical studies and trials to test specific hypothesis.
Currently, the team is well supported by a CIHR operating grant and several investigator-initiated, pharmaceutical company supported, clinical research grants.
Barbara E. M. Nakielna MD., DCH., MRCP(UK)., FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor
University of British Columbia
Dr. Barbara Nakielna is a respirologist at St Paul's Hospital and has been active in clinical practice since 1980. She completed her medical degree at the University of Liverpool England. She did her specialization in Internal Medicine and diploma in Child health in the UK and her training in respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia. During her fellowship she was involved in epidemiologic studies in tuberculosis.
Shortly after going into practice, Dr. Nakielna started the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic which is now located in St Paul's Hospital.
Dr. Nakielna's practice as a respirologist encompasses all aspects of the specialty. She maintains a keen interest in tuberculosis and attends clinics on a regular basis at the Tuberculosis Center in Vancouver. She also continues as Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic.
Peter David Paré, MD
Dr. Peter D. Paré's research expertise is in the study of the genetics and pathophysiology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
He earned his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal in 1969. His residency training was done at the Royal Victoria Hospital and the University of Nairobi before completing a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the Meakins Christie Laboratories.
Dr. Peter D. Paré concurrently holds the position of Director, The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, located at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Program Director of the Clinical Investigators Program, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia. He was former President of the Canadian Thoracic Society and was for 5 years, Chairman of the Canadian Thoracic Society's National Grant review committee.
Dr Pare has published over 260 peer reviewed papers. His research focuses on the mechanisms of airway narrowing in asthma and COPD, the bronchial microcirculation, the use of CT scanning to assess lung structure and the genetics of lung disease. Dr Pare has trained more than 40 clinical and basic science faculty members. In addition to his original research and training Dr Pare is one of the four co-authors of the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest a widely used four volume text on the diagnosis lung disease.
R Robert Schellenberg MD, FRCP (C)
Head of Allergy and Immunology, St Paul's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Dr. Robert Schellenberg is an Internist and Allergist / Immunologist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver and a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is also Head of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in the Department of Medicine, UBC. He received his MD from the U. of Manitoba and did post-doctoral training at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg and at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Dr. Schellenberg received both Fellowship and Scientist awards from the Medical Research Council of Canada. The focus of his research is on asthma and allergic inflammation with primary interests in the mechanisms of excessive airway narrowing of asthmatic tissues and the modulation of chemotaxis and apoptosis (programmed cell death) of basophils and eosinophils. His investigations of human airways has brought attention to the importance of changes in extracellular matrix elements as the cause of excessive smooth muscle shortening in asthma. He has been awarded the 1999 Research in Immunology Award by the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for this contribution.
Dr. Schellenberg has published more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 12 book chapters and has presented or co-authored about 80 abstracts at national or international meetings. He is president of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and a member of its Board of Directors as well as sits on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada's examining committee for Clinical Immunology.
Don Sin MD, FRCP, MPH
Dr. Sin is a chest physician and a clinical epidemiologist, who works primarily with large databases. In close collaboration with Dr. Paul Man, he also conducts research using a “wet” laboratory to analyze serum samples from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients for various markers/mediators of systemic inflammation to better understand the link between COPD and cardiovascular diseases.
Dr Sin graduated from the University of Alberta in 1991 (MD), and specialized in Internal Medicine and became certified in Respirology in 1997. He obtained an MPH degree at Harvard University and did his post-clinical training at University of Toronto.
His major areas of research interest include:
- evaluating novel therapies for management of patients with COPD, with an emphasis on anti-inflammatory agents.
- evaluating novel biomarkers of systemic inflammation in COPD patients
- evaluating the potential role of systemic inflammation in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular complications among COPD patients
Stephan F. van Eeden MD, PhD, FRCPC(C)
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine & Respirology.
University of British Columbia.
Dr Stephan van Eeden is an Internist and Respirologist that graduated from the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa in 1975 (MD), and specialized in Internal Medicine (1984) and certified in Pulmonology and Critical Care in 1985. He did his PhD in the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of British Columbia with Dr James C Hogg as his supervisor. He graduated in 1995 and completed his Canadian specialist examination (FRCPC) in 1996.
He is a principle investigator in the James Hogg iCapture Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Laboratories, St Paul's Hospital and his clinical and research interests are lung diseases such as Chronic Bronchitis & Emphysema caused by cigarette smoking and air pollution. He also has a special interest in lung infections and his research effects have resulted in more than 70 peer review publications.
Wan-Cheng Tan MD, FRCP (Lon), FCCP
Dr. Wan-Cheng Tan joined as staff of St Paul's Hospital, Respiratory Division in April 2004. Prior to that she was Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and Consultant Physician and Pulmonologist at the National University Hospital in Singapore.
Dr Tan obtained her medical degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1973. She is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and of London.
Professor Tan is a Past President of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR). Currently, she serves as a member of the advisory group to the World Lung Health committee and the International Relations Committee of the American Thoracic Society. In addition, Professor Tan is chairperson of the Dissemination Committee and member of the Executive Committee of the Global Initiative on Asthma (GINA) and an advisory member of the Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), both of which are the collaborative work of the
US National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO).
An author of over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals, Professor Tan also serves as Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for various journals, including Respirology, Respiratory Medicine and Journal of COPD. She has major research interests in the risk factors for near-fatal asthma, the role of respiratory viruses in near fatal asthma; ethnic differences in the genetics of asthma severity, in the prevalence, mortality and risk factors of hospitalization in COPD, and in the long term effects of inhaled steroids in mild asthma.
In addition to English, Dr Tan also speaks several Asian languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Malay.
Pearce Wilcox
Dr. Wilcox is a Respirologist at St Paul's Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from the Medical School Queen's University Kingston in 1980, did his Internal Medicine Residency University of Western Ontario from 1980-83 and Fellowship in Respirology at UBC in 1983-86. He is also a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Respirology and held a BC Health Care Research Fellowship from 1987-92.
Dr Wilcox has been the Director for Respirology Training at UBC since 1995 and is also Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory St Paul's Hospital. He oversees the Respiratory Therapy Training Program and is the Medical Advisor for Respiratory Therapy at St Paul's Hospital. His clinical research interests are in Cystic Fibrosis and Interstitial Lung Disease. He is a member of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Organization of Pulmonary Program Directors.
Apart from these activities, he is an enthusiastic skier, ice hockey player and enjoys windsurfing in the summer.
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