Academic Asthma​/Airways Respirologist

Job Summary

Job Title:

Academic Asthma/Airways Respirologist

Work Site:

VGH/UBCH

Status:

Full-Time

Start Date:

January 1, 2026

Compensation Type:

Salary plus Fee-for-Service

Come work as an Academic Asthma/Airways Respirologist with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

The Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)/Vancouver Acute (VA) Division of Respirology is seeking an engaged and dynamic academic asthma specialist to join our diverse and collegial team.

This is primarily an academic position with the University of British Columbia (UBC), with an 80:20 research: clinical split. The details of the academic component are outlined in the UBC posting (attached). The clinical component will include participation in and shared leadership of a multidisciplinary complex asthma clinic at the Centre for Lung Health, providing consultative services and management of asthma/airways disease in partnership with a collaborative group of respirologists, an airways educator and research assistants.

The clinic actively participates in clinical trials in asthma, with a goal to build a national/international research footprint. The successful candidate will also participate in the General Respirology ward and consult service, with a time commitment estimated to be 4-6 weeks per year.

In addition to a current research portfolio with international impact, the candidate will have current experience in acute care general respirology, including bronchoscopy, chest ultrasound and chest tube insertion. They will also have formal postgraduate training in complex asthma. Additional experience in developing a complex asthma tertiary referral centre will be of value. Skill, experience and recognition teaching medical students, residents and fellows is required.

The largest academic tertiary care hospital in BC, VGH is a teaching hospital affiliated with UBC and is the provincial referral site for Pulmonary Hypertension, Lung Transplantation and Tuberculosis and has strong regional programs in lung cancer, ILD, Sleep, Neuromuscular Disease, TB and non-tuberculous mycobacteria.

Academic Position with the University of British Columbia (UBC)

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) invites applications for a full-time academic position at the rank of an Assistant Professor (grant tenure-track).

The UBC Department of Medicine (DOM) provides excellence in research, teaching and clinical services related to the nature, cause and prevention of adult diseases. We are the largest Department in the Faculty of Medicine with over 1,200 faculty and staff. The Department is comprised of 18 divisions with faculty located throughout the Province of British Columbia. The UBC DOM is committed to ensuring the success of our learners and faculty, and to contributing to the health of the Province of British Columbia.

The Division of Respiratory Medicine is an esteemed and highly-awarded group of faculty, primarily located at the major teaching hospitals affiliated with the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Recognition of our prominence and success is furthered with ongoing recognition of lung and heart as an area of research strength and focus within the Faculty of Medicine. The UBC Respiratory Division has an international reputation for excellence in research, which spans the four (4) Canadian Institutes of Health Research Pillars, from state-of-the-art basic research through to population health.

The incumbent scientist will be based at the Centre for Lung Health (https:///). Additional support and common goals will be found through the following at UBC: the Data Sciences and Health Research Cluster, the Data Science Institute, the Academy of Translational Medicine, and the Precision Health Initiative. Our established connections with the BC Centre for Disease Control, the BC Ministry of Health, and others will lend additional strength.

Reporting to the Head, UBC Department of Medicine through the Head, Division of Respiratory Medicine, the incumbent will be a respirologist that leads unique and groundbreaking research program that target gaps in airways disease prevention and/or treatment through novel clinical trials that span a range of interventions, including those behavioural, technological, programmatic, and pharmacologic. The incumbent will be visionary and broad-thinking in study design and evaluation, focusing on testing creative innovations that are developed primarily by the incumbent (rather than those initiated elsewhere by other investigators).

The incumbent will push the boundaries of methodology, finding new applications of existing techniques and…