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Division of Respirology

Overview

The Division of Respiratory Medicine (also known as the Division of Respirology, or the Division of Pulmonary Medicine) encompasses all of the major subspecialty interests in the field of respiratory medicine.

In recent years we have expanded our divisional faculty and we now have clinical professors with key clinical and research interests in all aspects of respiratory medicine, including interventional pulmonology, adult cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, post lung transplant care, exercise physiology, pleural diseases, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory and ventilatory care of chronic neuromuscular diseases, and sleep medicine.

The Division of Respiratory Medicine has achieved continuing and increasing success in research productivity.  Our expertise is in clinical research and clinical and population epidemiology.  Our faculty publish widely in the best medical journals in the world, including NEJM, Lancet and JAMA.

Our Respirology program is fully accredited by the Royal College and attracts large numbers of applicants from across the country each year. Our residents benefit from broad clinical exposure to all aspects of respirology and an extensive educational curriculum provided by very supportive and collegial faculty. We generally accept two to three PGY4 residents per year.

Our catchment area includes Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, and Nunavut.  We service a catchment area of about 1.3 million people.  We run outpatient clinics every day in a variety of subspecialty areas.  We hold outreach clinics in Nunavut, and in smaller towns in Eastern Ontario.  We also have a 16 bed inpatient Respirology unit at The General Campus of The Ottawa Hospital.

Research

In the Division of Respirology research is focused in the areas of clinical research, and clinical and population epidemiology.  Our research faculty is growing and has been very productive in recent years.  Since 2003 members of our faculty have published first-author research publications in:  The NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, CMAJ, The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, as well as many other subspecialty journals.   Members of our group hold a large number of peer-reviewed research grants from CIHR, The Ontario Thoracic Society, The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Canadian Cancer Society. FIND OUT MORE…

Education

The Division of Respirology is highly committed to medical education at all levels. We provide elective rotations in respirology for interested medical students and residents in addition to a respirology training program and subspecialty fellowships.

For inquiries regarding any of our programs or to arrange an elective, please contact the Program Coordinator, Lisa Charrette at (613) 737-8899 ext. 73994 or email lcharrette@toh.on.ca.

Patient Care

The Division of Respiratory Medicine offers general respirology outpatient clinics situated both at The Ottawa Hospital (Civic and General Campuses) as well as in community clinics in Ottawa and in the surrounding area.  We serve as a tertiary care referral centre for the Champlain LHIN and for other areas of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. LEARN MORE…

Notable Honours and Achievements in Recent Years:

• Kayvan Amjadi – Physician Clinician Recognition Award 2011 -this is an annual award given by The Ottawa Hospital to the top 3 MD’s in the hospital per year.
• Doug McKim – Dr. David Green Award from Muscular Dystrophy Canada
• Gonzalo Alvarez – Jeff Turnbull Contributions to International Medicine Award

Location Information

Respirology inpatient services are located mainly at the General Campus, clinics are situated at the General, Civic and Riverside Campuses.

THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL, GENERAL CAMPUS, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa ON  K1H 8L6

THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL, CIVIC CAMPUS, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa ON  K1Y 4E9

THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL, RIVERSIDE CAMPUS, 1967 Riverside Drive, Ottawa ON  K1H 7W9