Clinical Faculty

 

Research Faculty

Please call (905) 522-1155 and use the following extension:

Ms. Myrna Dolovich x 33597

Dr. Martin Stampfli : 905-525-9140 x22493

Dr. Mark Inman : Raquel Whitwell x33683 or 33694

Dr. Luke Janssen : Raquel Whitwell x33683 or 33694

Dr. Renée Labiris : 905-521-2100 Ext. 75657

Mr. Neil Johnston : Pearl Davis x35817

Dr. Mark Larche: x 35310

Dr. Roma Sehmi : Raquel Whitwell x 33683 or x33694

Dr. Martin Kolb: Jennifer Mortensen x35311

Mr. Michael Quinn : x33140

 

Administration

Executive Director :	Dr. P O'Byrne @ (905) 522-1155 x33694
Past Research Director:	Dr. M. Sears @ (905) 522-1155 x3286
Research Director:	Dr. Martin Kolb @(905) 522-1155 x34973
Cinical Director :	Dr. S. Pugsley @ (905) 522-1155 x33491
Medical Director of Sputum Lab:	Dr. Paul O'Byrne (a) @ (905) 522-1155 x33714
Research and Business Development Manager:	Michael Quinn @ (905) 522-1155 x33140
Clinical Service Director:	Jacqeline Barrett @(905) 522-1155 x33427
Clinic Manager:	Dianne Husbands @ (905) 522-1155 x33004

 

Research and Clinical Fellows

Firestone is pleased to welcome clinical and research fellows to join us. If you are interested in finding out how to join us as a research fellow please contact:

Michael Quinn Research Manager @ 905.522.1155 x33140

If you are interested in finding out how to apply as a clinical / research fellow you will need to also talk to:

Diane Lawson @ 905.522.1155 x34929 , who is administrative support for Dr. Lori Whitehead, Education Director for the Respiratory Division at McMaster University

Research at FIRH is particularly strong in the following areas: asthma, small-animal imaging, allergen challenge, progenitor cell biology, induced sputum and markers of airway inflammation, epidemiology of asthma, mechanistic and cellular research, and clinical investigation.

 

 

 

Volunteers are need to participate ... are you interested?

Do you have some time to give to help us research breathing problems? Perhaps you know someone who has difficulties, or would like to find out if other treatments are available. Firestone researchers are looking for volunteers to participate in a variety of studies. Some studies provide compensation for your time.

We are currently recruiting people to volunteer to become part of our research volunteer data base. Called PURR at FIRH, the Pulmonary Research Registry (PURR@FIRH) is a Research Ethics Board (REB) approved database which is designed to facilitate patient selection and enrollment into research studies.

St. Joseph's hospital is very serious about research ethics and asked FIRH to develop a process to obtain people's consent before we can ask them to participate in research. We therefore need your permission to contact you about participating in upcoming FIRH studies. We created a confidential database to record those consents.

Participation in the PURR is voluntary and does not include consent to take part in a specific study. By enrolling in the database, held in strict confidence, you give us permission to call you to hear about upcoming studies.

Each time a patient has been found matching the inclusion criteria of a certain study, participation in that study is again voluntary.

PURR is open for everyone -- patients, staff, family, friends of patients and community minded volunteers. You do not need to have a respiratory diagnosis to participate as "healthy volunteer". We need "normals" to compare to others.

Each patient at their scheduled visit at the FIRH clinic has the opportunity to sign up for PURR, giving the research team permission to collect their contact and health information. We have a PURR office right in the clinic to answer your questions and explain the process.

If you are interested in being involved in a clinical trial but don't know who to talk to please feel free to visit the PURR office in the FIrestone clinic or call Dr. Antje Ask 905-522-1155 x32722. Dr. Ask oversees the PURR Project along with Michael Quinn, (Research Manager) at 905 - 522 - 1155 x33140.

Call: 900-522-1155 x32722 or E-Mail: PURR at FIRH

 

Firestone Institute posts job opening through St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton or through McMaster University. From time-to-time we will indicate if we are recruiting on this web site. However, you will still need to follow the official process for each institution. If you would like to talk to someone at Firestone please follow the contact FIRH link.

 

Links and Affiliationsand

McMaster University	Faculty of Health Science	Department of Medicine
Division of Respirology	Research at St. Joseph's	St. Joseph's Healthcare