Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett – Ph.D.
Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett
Ph.D.
Dr. Hackett is an Associate Professor and the Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hackett is a Principle Investigator at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, where she was formally the Associate Director 2013 – 2018 and has been the Director of the James Hogg Lung Registry since 2014. Dr. Hackett is an internationally-recognized research leader in ultra-resolution biomedical imaging modalities and human in vitro models to investigate and treat the pathobiology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which daily affect the ability of over 4.5 million Canadians to breathe. Dr. Hackett has demonstrated that understanding the pathobiology of early disease lesions can drive new global strategies for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic lung diseases like COPD that currently have no cure (Dransfield M, the global Lancet COPD Commission, 2019). Dr. Hackett’s reputation as an international leader in her field has been formally recognized by over 37 awards, including the Parker B. Francis Fellowship (2012), Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award (2014), the UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Researcher Award (2018), and she was named an Inaugural American Thoracic Society Fellow (100 awarded), as a mark of distinction and recognition for her accomplishments and dedication to the society and field of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine in 2018. Dr. Hackett has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles ranks in the top 0.2% of 157,339 published authors worldwide on obstructive lung diseases (Expertscape.com).