Dr. Janice Leung – MD
Dr. Janice Leung
MD
Dr. Janice Leung completed her Bachelor’s Honours degree in History and Science at Harvard University and Doctor of Medicine degree at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Leung is an American Board certified Pulmonary Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine specialist, and a Canadian Royal College certified fellow in Respirology and Internal Medicine. In 2015, she completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship with Dr. Don Sin at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI) and was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Respiratory Medicine within the UBC Department of Medicine. Dr. Leung is currently a respirologist at St. Paul’s Hospital specializing in HIV-related airways diseases and a Principal Investigator at HLI where she runs a translational airway biology laboratory. She is the recipient of a CIHR Early Career Investigator Award and a Michael Smith Health Professional Investigator Award. Her research has been supported by funding from the BC Lung Association, Genome BC, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Recent funding has supported work in HIV airway biology and in cannabis-related lung injury.