Carmen Rempel is a Respiratory Therapist and Certified Respiratory Educator at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) in British Columbia (BC), Canada. She is currently part of the VGH COPD Transition Team that provides intensive case-management and post-hospital care in patients admitted with acute exacerbation of COPD. Prior to this role she was the Airways Educator at VGH providing self-management counseling for asthma, allergy and COPD patients and their families.
Carmen has worked in a variety of areas of Respiratory Therapy including, critical care, ward therapy, supervisory, and pulmonary diagnostics. She is an instructor in the BC Spirometry program with RespTrec®: a Canadian Respiratory Training and Educator Course.
Carmen is a volunteer with the international program GASP: Global Access to Spirometry Project. The project delivers education, training and support in low-resource settings in South America to nurses and physicians to enable them to diagnose, treat and educate people with COPD and asthma.
