Christopher Carlsten

Dr. Christopher Carlsten is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), holding key leadership roles including Head of the Division of Respiratory Medicine and Director of the Centre for Lung Health.

• He also directs the Legacy for Airway Health and the Air Pollution Exposure Laboratory.
• Holds the Canada Research Chair and the Astra-Zeneca Chair in Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease.

Educational background:

• BA, MD, MPH
• Stanford University (undergraduate and medical school)
• University of Washington (training in internal, occupational, pulmonary, and critical care medicine)

Research interests focus on:

• Occupational and environmental lung diseases, particularly effects of air pollution (diesel exhaust, wildfire smoke) and inhaled exposures (western red cedar, phthalates)
• Asthma and COPD induction and exacerbation
• Respiratory immunology and cardio-pulmonary health effects
• Community-partnered research to reduce health disparities

Scientific awards:

• Canada Research Chair in Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease
• Astra-Zeneca Chair in Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease

He supervises graduate students in Bioinformatics and Experimental Medicine (MSc and PhD programs). Research funding includes the COVID-19 Research Fund (2020). His laboratory conducts controlled human exposure studies on air pollutants.

Affiliations:

• International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries
• Data Science Institute
• Providence Health Care Research Institute
• The Social Exposome Cluster
• Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
• Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (adjunct)
• UBC School of Population and Public Health (adjunct)