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Lori Whitehead

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Professor EmeritusMedicineMcMaster University

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Dr. Whitehead is a clinical professor of medicine at McMaster University. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1985, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Respirology in Hamilton in 1992. Between 2005 and 2014, she was the Program Director for the McMaster Respirology Residency Training Program. Dr. Whitehead is Chair for the Specialty Committee in Respirology at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is Past President of the Hamilton Academy of Medicine and serves as a delegate to council for the Ontario Medical Association and Canadian Medical Association.She is the Chair of the National Senior Respiratory Fellows Symposium, an annual event supported by the Canadian Thoracic Society. Dr. Whitehead is the Medical Lead for the Regional Tuberculosis Clinic based at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton. Her clinical areas of interest include tuberculosis, lung cancer and pediatric asthma. Throughout her career, Dr. Whitehead has received many awards for her academic, teaching, clinical and community activities. Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Consultant, Respirology

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13 publications.

01

Metastatic Non‐Small‐Cell Lung Cancer in the Setting of Unilateral Agenesis of the Left Pulmonary Artery: A Case Report and Comprehensive Literature Review

Agzarian J, Kadlec J, Whitehead L, Shargall Y

Case Reports in Oncological Medicine20194 citationsOpen Access
02

Air Filtration for Childhood Asthma: A Pilot Randomized Trial

McDonald E, Clarke F, Freitag A, Cox G, Whitehead L, Keith P, Waserman S, Newman T, Cook D

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine2009
03

Validation of the Asthma Control Questionnaire in Children

McDonald E, Clarke F, Zhou Q, Freitag A, Cox G, Whitehead L, Keith P, Waserman S, Newman T, Cook D

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine2009
04

Adverse events associated with pyrazinamide and levofloxacin in the treatment of latent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

Papastavros T, Dolovich LR, Holbrook A, Whitehead L, Loeb M

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL2002118 citations
05

Epstein-Barr virus infection in paediatric liver transplant recipients: detection of the virus in post-transplant tonsillectomy specimens

Meru N, Davison S, Whitehead L, Jung A, Mutimer D, Rooney N, Kelly D, Niedobitek G

Journal of Clinical Pathology200124 citations
06

Epstein-Barr virus infection in paediatric liver transplant recipients: Detection of the virus in posttransplant tonsilectomy specimens

Meru N, Davison S, Whitehead L, Jung A, Mutimer D, Rooney N, Kelly D, Niedobitek G

Journal of Pathology2001
07

Quantitation of Epstein-Barr virus DNA in the blood of adult liver transplant recipients

Mutimer D, Kaur N, Tang H, Singhal S, Shaw J, Whitehead L, Rickinson A, Niedobitek G

Transplantation200026 citations
08

A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Airways Inflammation in Adult Cigarette Smokers

Cox G, Whitehead L, Dolovich M, Jordana M, Gauldie J, Newhouse MT

Chest199927 citations
09

The use of glycopyrrolate in a case of intermediate syndrome following acute organophosphate poisoning

Choi PTL, Quinonez LG, Cook DJ, Baxter F, Whitehead L

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia199829 citationsSenior authorOpen Access
10

EPSTEIN–BARR VIRUS (EBV) INFECTION IN INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS: VIRUS LATENCY, REPLICATION AND PHENOTYPE OF EBV‐INFECTED CELLS

NIEDOBITEK G, AGATHANGGELOU A, HERBST H, WHITEHEAD L, WRIGHT DH, YOUNG LS

Journal of Pathology1997174 citations
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