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shAIRe Rising Stars Leadership Team and Trainee Committee

A pivotal role between data and researchers

Our Vision Statement

Provide new and emerging researchers with tools, training, and strategies to foster expertise in data generation, management, analysis and dissemination for harmonized research in lung health.

shAIRe Rising Stars Network  Group

The shAIRe Rising Stars network is open to any and all trainees working with lung health data at a a Canadian institution. To join the Rising Stars network, email [email protected]

Meet the shAIRe Rising Stars Trainee Committee:

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Chair

Dr. Rachelle Aucoin, PhD

Research Associate, Respiratory Epidemiology Team, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University 

Co-Chair

Omri Arbiv, MD, PhD Candidate 

Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, University of Toronto

Clinical Associate, Division of Respirology, University of Toronto

Committee Member

Dr. Sophie Collins, PhD 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre & Department of Medicine, McGill University 

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Committee Member

Amin Adibi, MSc, PhD (c)

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia 

Research Scientist, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia and Legacy for Airway Health 

Advisory Committee Member, Global Lung Function Initiative 

Senior Collaborator, Global Burden of Disease Network 

Committee Member

Dr. Firoozeh Gerayeli, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI), University of British Columbia 

Committee Member

Eva Kuhar, PhD Student 

Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa 

Meet the shAIRe Rising Stars Leadership Team:

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ShAIRE|shAIRe Rising Stars Leadership Team and Trainee CommitteeMichael (Mike) Strickland, Pulmonary
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Dr. Emily Brigham, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Respirology, Legacy for Airway Health Professorship, University of British Columbia 

Research Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute 

Dr. Michael (Mike) Stickland, PhD

Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta

Director, G. F. MacDonald Centre for Lung Health

Dr. Benjamin (Ben) Smith, MD, MSc

Physician-Scientist, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University 

Director, Centre of Outcomes Research and Evaluation, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute