Upcoming Meetings & Workshops
Full day thematic workshops organized on a yearly basis on topics that span the various research themes.
36th Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar:
Use of AI and Wearables in Respiratory Diseases
Friday, June 5, 2026
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC, H4A 3J1
Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129
Wiselberg Lecture: Wim Janssens, MD, PhD
Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven, Belgium
Use of AI in diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases
Christie Lecture: Andrea Aliverti, PhD
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Measuring breathing: from the lab to real life

This activity is accredited by the Office for Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, which is accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME) of which the Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) is a partner.
This Group Learning program meets the accreditation criteria as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has been approved for up to 5.5 MOC Section 1 credits/hours.
Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications
7th International Conference on Innate Immune Memory
September 23-25, 2026
La Plaza Centre Ville, Montreal, Canada

Past Meetings and Workshops
35th RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
Friday, April 24, 2026
Peter T. Macklem Lecture by Tillie-Louise Hackett, PhD, University of British Columbia: Understanding heterogenous airways disease in asthma and COPD using spatial imaging
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
2025 RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
Monday, August 11, 2025
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium (ES1.1129)
9th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Seminar
July 17 & 18, 2025
Palmer-Howard Amphitheatre of the McIntyre Medical Building and on Zoom
35th Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: Interstitial Lung Diseases – From genes to end of Life
Friday, May 30, 2025
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre
Flow Volume Underworld
May 14-15, 2025
Thomson House, McGill University
34th Annual RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
April 25, 2025
SEYMOUR HEISLER MEMORIAL LECTURE by Bernard Thébaud, MD, PhD, University of Ottawa: Cell and gene therapies to rescue the newborn lung
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre
CERC in Lung Regenerative Medicine Symposium
November 7, 2024
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Block E Training Room
8th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
July 18 & 19, 2024
McIntyre Medical Building, McGill University, Montréal, Québec
Hybrid event in person and via Zoom
2024 RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre
34th Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: COPD in the Modern Era
Friday, May 31, 2024
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre
33rd RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
April 29, 2024
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 11, 2023
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
7th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
July 27 & July 28, 2023
Palmer-Howard Amphitheatre of the McIntyre Medical Building & via Zoom, Montréal, Québec
33rd Annual Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: Climate Crisis, Air Pollution, and Respiratory Health
June 19, 2023
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre
Meakins-Christie Laboratories 50th Anniversary & Respiratory Research Day
May 17-18, 2023
InterContinental Hotel, Montreal
RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 12, 2022
Hybrid Event: Zoom & in person Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
Participation from the 8 RI-MUHC Research Programs. In collaboration with the Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training.
6th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
Virtual Seminars: July 20, July 27, August 3, August 10, 2022
31st Respiratory Research Day
June 10, 2022
Hybrid Event: Zoom & in person Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
Macklem Lecture by Patricia J Sime, MD
5th Annual Montreal Oscillometry Summer Seminar
Virtual Seminars: July 21, July 28, August 4, August 11, 2021
22nd Meakins-Christie Laboratories Workshop Lipid Biology in Respiratory Diseases
June 21-22, 2021
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre – virtual event
Christie Lecture by William S. Powell
Rare Disease Research Day 2020: We CARe – We Care About Rare
February 28, 2020
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC –
Drs. Sylvia & Richard Cruess Amphitheatre & Elspeth McConnell Atrium
Summer Student Research Day
August 13, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129
3rd Annual Montreal Oscillometry Seminar
July 25-26, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129
30th Annual RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
June 3, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129
Keynote Christie Lecture by Dr. David Gozal
32nd Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar
Neuromuscular Disorders and Respiration
May 31, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre,
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre ES1.1129
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division
Keynote Wiselberg Lecture by Professor Anita Simonds
21st Annual Meakins-Christie Laboratories Workshop
March 24-25, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre
Macklem Lecture by Dr. Graham Barr
MUHC Consortium for Rare Disease Research: Rare Disease Research Day – Research & Reach Out
February 28, 2019
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
2018 Summer Student Research Day
August 13, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC, Cruess Amphitheatre
FOT Seminar
August 2, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
31st Doctor Dorothy Wiselberg Seminar: Asthma
June 4, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – Cruess Amphitheatre
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division
29th Annual RI-MUHC Respiratory Research Day
May 28, 2018
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal – Cruess Amphitheatre and Atrium
Keynote Christie Lecture by Dr. Manuel Cosio
20th Annual International Meakins-Christie Workshop
March 14-17, 2018
InterContinental, Dubai Festival City, UAE
in collaboration with the Gulf Thoracic Congress 2018
19th Annual International Meakins-Christie Workshop: Systems biology approaches to pulmonary host-pathogen interactions
October 30, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
2017 Joint Summer Student Research Day
August 10, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, RI-MUHC Auditorium and Atrium
FOT Unit Seminar
July 26, 2017
FOT Unit, Centre for Innovative Medicine, RI-MUHC
Glen B0.5243.2, CIM Conference Room
2017 Wiselberg Seminar: Tuberculosis
June 19, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
Organized by the McGill Respiratory Division
2017 Respiratory Research Day
June 6, 2017
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – RI-MUHC Auditorium
FOT-QCT & Clinical Respirology Research Group Seminar
April 24, 2017
FOT Unit, Centre for Innovative Medicine
Glen B04.5243.2, CIM Conference Room
2017 Cystic Fibrosis Research Day – Jointly organized by the Meakins and the McGill Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research Centre
April 3, 2016
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre,
1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC – RI-MUHC Auditorium
Monocyte Macrophage Biology Symposium: Cracking the Macrophage Code in Host Defense and Disease
November 14, 2016
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
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Joint CHHD – Meakins/RESP RI-MUHC Summer Student Research Day
August 25, 2016
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
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2016 Wiselberg Seminar: Sleep
June 6, 2016 – Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
In Collaboration with the McGill Respiratory Division
18th Annual Meakins-Christie International Workshop in Collaboration with the Strauss Severe Asthma Program: Asthma COPD Workshop
March 19-20, 2016
Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, 1050 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, QC
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Rare Respiratory Diseases Workshop
October 22-23, 2015
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 1001 Boul Décarie, Montreal, QC
17th Annual Meakins-Christie International Workshop in Collaboration with the Strauss Severe Asthma Program
February 8-9, 2015
Château Bromont
90 Stanstead St, Bromont, QC
McGill-Grenoble Workshop on Sleep-Disordered Breathing, COPD and Hypoxia
February 2-3, 2015
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
Asthma and COPD: Similarities and Differences
November 3, 2014
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
Severe Asthma: What do we know and what are the unmet needs?
June 9, 2014
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
16th Annual Meakins-Christie – McGill University International Workshop: Advances in the pathogenesis and management of asthma and COPD
March 14-15, 2014
Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Severe Asthma and COPD: Similarities and Differences
October 21, 2013
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
Immune Tolerance in Allergic Disease
November 27-28, 2013
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
Immune Tolerance in Allergic Disease
November 14, 2012
Meakins-Christie Laboratories
3626 St Urbain, Montreal, QC
40th Anniversary MCL Symposium
October 15, 2012
Hotel Omni Mont-Royal
1050 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, QC
Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in the Critically Ill
October 4-5, 2012
Goodman Cancer Centre
McGill University, Montreal, QC
15th Annual Meakins-Christie/MUHC-RI International Workshop
February 4-6, 2012
Château Vaudreuil Suites Hotel
21700 route Transcanadienne, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC