Dr. Bruce McManus, Director, Providence Heart + Lung Institute
Dr. McManus is Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at the University of British Columbia and Director, Providence Heart + Lung Institute. Since 2006, he has served as Director of the UBC James Hogg Research Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research located at St. Paul's Hospital and as the Scientific Director of the Heart Centre at St. Paul's Hospital - Providence Health Care. In February 2008, he successfully led the PRevention Of epidemic Organ Failure (PROOF) team to a $15 million funding award to establish a Centre for Excellence and Commercialization in Research (CECR), in the Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program. Dr. McManus' research focuses on injury and repair involved in inflammatory and infectious diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Together with colleagues, he is working to understand acute and chronic rejection in recipients of heart, kidney and liver transplants. www.heartandlung.ca