The Respirology Academic and Award Day will take place will take place June 10, 2026 at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (2nd floor) – St. Michael’s Hospital from 9am to 4pm.
Full address: 209, Victoria street.
The Academic Day is open to all trainees interested in respirology research from Toronto. The Academic Day is an excellent opportunity for faculty, fellows, residents and students to highlight their research. Basic science, knowledge translation and clinical research submissions from students and investigators in Adult and Paediatric Respirology, Sleep Research, Thoracic Surgery, Anaesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering are all welcome!
We look forward to reading your abstract.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: May 1, 2026
Best,
Dmitry Rozenberg and Gaspard Montandon
Academic & Award Day Co-Chairs
Please register with the link below:
Deadline. May 29, 2026
Carli Lehr, MD, PhD is a staff pulmonologist at the Respiratory Institute and Associate professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, specializing in transplant medicine. She treats patients with advanced lung disease before and after lung transplantation.
Dr. Lehr is a physician scientist whose research is focused on organ allocation, statistical modeling in transplant systems, and optimizing donor selection. She holds the Gregory and Maureen Church endowed chair in Lung Transplantation Research. She currently holds a K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a donor and candidate risk prediction system to optimize lung allocation and transplant outcomes. She is the recipient of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award to improve the predictive accuracy of the lung allocation score and identify cystic fibrosis-specific risk factors that impact waitlist mortality and optimize the timing of transplant for at-risk patients. Dr. Lehr serves as a co-investigator on the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium which is comprised of fifteen transplant centers to advance lung transplant research for individuals with cystic fibrosis. She has also received research support from the American Society of Transplantation and the Cleveland Clinic Center for Populations Health Research.
Dr. Lehr earned her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine from Duke University. She completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine from the Cleveland Clinic. She earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research and a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Translational Science from Case Western Reserve University.
Professor of Medicine
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry
University of Western Ontario
The Annual Academic and Award of the Division of Respirology is an excellent opportunity for faculty, fellows, residents and students to highlight their research. Basic science, knowledge translation and clinical research submissions from students and investigators in Adult and Paediatric Respirology, Sleep Research, Thoracic Surgery, Anaesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering are all welcome!
Abstracts submitted to other conferences can be used and submitted to the Respirology Research Forum.
You will be notified whether your abstract has been accepted for an oral or poster presentation in May 25, 2026.
Abstracts not selected as oral presentations will be presented as posters.
We will be seeking a balance between the various disciplines of basic vs. clinical research/knowledge translation.
Monetary prizes will be awarded for the best basic and clinical/knowledge translation research presentations and posters. To be eligible for awards the presenter must be a research/clinical trainee, students or Junior staff (less than 3 years on faculty).
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: May 1, 2026
We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing your research on the Respirology Research Forum.
Sincerely.
Dmitry Rozenberg and Gaspard Montandon
Respirology Research Day co-Chairs
Title of Abstract: Your abstract must have the following structure! It will greatly help us creating the program.
Authors: Gaspard Montandon (1, 2)
Affiliations: 1. Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. 2. St-Michael Hospital, University of Toronto.
Abstract:
– Introduction & Objectives: Description of the topic, what is known and unknown in the field, and state the objectives and the
scientific questions.
– Methods: This section describes the approaches used to test the main objectives.
– Results: Data should be described and statistical tests can be reported.
– Conclusion: Interpretation of results and conclusions.
Supported by: Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.
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Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. St. Michael’s Hospital. Unity Health Toronto.
209, Victoria street.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1TfK47YP49GWcWp67
respirology.research.day@gmail.com
Copyright © 2020 Respirology Research Forum
All Rights Reserved | Website By: Macroblu
