Kenneth Chapman

Dr. Chapman is the President of the Canadian Network for Respiratory Care, the Director of the Canadian Registry for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, and the Director of the Asthma and Airway Centre of the University Health Network. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and a former member of the Case Western Reserve University faculty.

Dr. Chapman is a well-known researcher in the fields of asthma, COPD, and airway diseases; the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have both published his work. His titles of more than 600 publications range from "Emergency medical services for outdoor rock music festivals" to "The effect of posture on thoracoabdominal movements during progressive hyperoxic hypercapnia in conscious man". Dr. Chapman ranks in the top 1% of the most cited medical researchers with more than 22,000 citations to his work.

He served as the chairman of Canada's first Consensus Conference, which established national standards for the treatment of COPD. One of five Canadian respiratory doctors to receive a Fellowship in the European Society in its inaugural year was Professor Chapman, who served as the first CIHR-GSK Research Chair in Respiratory Health Care Delivery at the University Health Network.

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