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Richard Leigh

Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Professor

Cumming School of Medicine, Office of the Dean | Faculty Affairs

Full Member

The Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases

Senior Associate Dean

University of Calgary

Contact information

Email

rleigh@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

https://snyder.ucalgary.ca/research/research-groups/airways-inflammation-group-airg

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-4242

Background

Educational Background

Bach of Med and Surgery Medicine, University of Cape Town, 1987

Doctor of Philosophy Medicine, McMaster University, 2004

MSc Health Research Methodology, McMaster University, 2000

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 2005

Fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa 1994

Biography

My research interests include understanding the basic mechanisms underlying airway remodeling in asthma, with a particular focus on human rhinovirus in the pathogenesis of remodeling, and in the pharmacological treatment of airway inflammation through conducting early phase clinical trials in asthma and COPD.

 

Awards

  • Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). 2021
  • Renewed as the GSK Professor in Inflammatory Lung Disease, Univeristy of Calgary. 2021
  • Dr. John Dawson Award for Clinical Excellence, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary. 2020
  • Bob Cowie Award; in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Calgary. 2019
  • Dr. Peter Munt Distinguished Lecture: Better People Make Better Doctors: Citizenship in Medicine in 2019, Queens University. 2019
  • The David Bates Lecture: Choosing the Right Therapy for Severe Asthma. Heart + Lung Health Fest , University of BC. 2019
  • Leadership Program, Haskayne School of Business Executive, University of Calgary. 2016
  • AHFMR Clinical Investigator Renewal, 2009
  • AHFMR Research Prize, 2009
  • award, 2009
  • salary support award, 2009
  • CIHR Clinician Scientist Award (Phase 2), 2008
  • GSK-CIHR Professorship in Lung Inflammatory Diseases, 2006
  • AHFMR Clinical Investigator Award, 2005
  • AHFMR Clinical Investigator - Research Prize, 2005
  • CIHR Clinician Scientist Award (Phase 1), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, 2005
  • GSK Professorship in Lung Inflammatory Diseases, 2005
  • Research Allowance, 2005
  • Research Supplement, 2005
  • CIHR Clinician Scientist Award (Phase 1), 2004
  • commendation, 2004
  • Finalist for the Wilbert J. Keon Award Competition for Junior Faculty, 2004
  • Travel Award, 2004
  • award, 2001