University of Alberta
Dr. Grace Lam is a clinician scientist, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Alberta, and cofounder and co-director of one of the first post-COVID-19 clinics in Canada. She trained at the University of Toronto in the MD/PhD program where her PhD work focused on basic science research on autophagy and the intracellular immunity against Listeria monocytogenes, resulting in nearly 20 publications on this topic. She then completed her residency in core internal medicine in 2017 and adult pulmonary training at the University of Alberta in 2019 and went on to a year-long clinical and research fellowship in adult cystic fibrosis at the University of British Columbia, training under Drs. Pearce Wilcox and Brad Quon. Since 2020, she has launched her research program in cystic fibrosis and long COVID, garnering national (CIHR), provincial (Alberta Lung) and local funding as the principal or co-principal investigator in support of her work. Her and her trainee's work has received local, national and international recognition with a number of publications in CF and long COVID (H-index 21). Notably, she has been named one of the finalists at the 2019 North American CF Conference Junior Clinical Investigator Abstract Competition, been awarded the 2019 CF Canada/Gilead Sciences Clinical Fellow for having the highest-ranked clinical fellowship application in CF, and was recently recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 in 2023 by Edify Magazine.
Friday, September 27, 2024
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET