A Hidden Clue to Lifelong Health: The Height-GaP
Study by Ben Smith introduces height-GaP, a simple measure linking early-life growth adversity to adult mortality risk, revealing how childhood conditions shape lifelong health.
Benjamin Smith
View his faculty profile here: Benjamin M Smith, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
Research Theme: Pathophysiological mechanisms of obstructive lung diseases, epidemiology, imaging, airway anatomy, cardiopulmonary physiology
Keywords: obstructive lung diseases • imaging • cardiopulmonary physiology • chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) • emphysema
View Benjamin Smith’s recent posts and news below.
Benjamin Smith Appointed McGill Division Director of Clinical Epidemiology
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Benjamin Smith as the new McGill Division Director of Clinical Epidemiology
CIHR Lung Health Team Grants
Congratulations to Benjamin Smith and Simon Rousseau for the CIHR Lung Health Team Grants!
All Airway Trees are not Created Equal
A recent study by Benjamin Smith reveals that airway-to-lung size ratio is possibly the most important factor in death by lung disease.
2023-2024 Salary Awards
Congratulations to all who received a 2023-2024 FRQS salary award!
MUHC Trottier Webster Innovation Award Goes to RESP Team
Congrats to Ben Smith, Jun Ding and Larry Lands! The team received the MUHC Trottier Webster Innovation Award for their work to repair damaged lungs in COPD.
Health Matters: Reprogramming Lungs Against COPD
MUHC Foundation Health Matters interview with Ben Smith discusses reprogramming COPD lungs and with Deborah Assayag discusses ILD
CIHR Project Grant Results – Fall 2022
Congratulations to Jim Martin, Ben Smith, Sushmita Pamidi, and Deborah Assayag who were funded in the Fall 2022 CIHR Project Grant Competition!
RESP Research Day Oral and Poster Presentation Winners
The 31th Annual Respiratory Research Day featured 51 oral and poster presentations. Congrats to all our poster and oral presentation winners!
Upper and Lower Airway Dysanapsis and Airflow Obstruction Among Older Adults
Publication in AJRCCM by Ben Smith describes dysanapsis in the upper and lower airways and risk of airflow obstruction