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Research
Latest papers
Blood eosinophil counts and postoperative outcomes in early-stage lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study.
Respiratory research · 2026
Personalizing the approach for the diagnosis of patients with concomitant Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Heart failure.
Respiratory medicine · 2026
Serum IgA isotypes are associated with percent emphysema, wall thickness and lung function decline.
Thorax · 2025
Latest funding
- $2,945,248
Functional Outcomes, Lung health, and Livelihood Outcomes among people With Tuberculosis (FOLLOW-TB): a pan-Canadian prospective cohort study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $1,090,124
MAPping Lung DiseasE Through Social Epigenetics, Exposures, and Disparities (MAPLE-SEED) Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $1,998,780
Immune dysanapsis: Updating the paradigm of inflammation and lung health trajectories in diverse populations to achieve lifelong health for all
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
7 publications.
Blood eosinophil counts and postoperative outcomes in early-stage lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study.
Mugutso E, Freund O, Pitrou I, Ghatak A, Roux C, Jacobson S, Stetco JR, Kutzkel S, Bar-Shai A, Smith B, Ezer N
Personalizing the approach for the diagnosis of patients with concomitant Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Heart failure.
Abou-Rjeili M, Farias R, Mostafavi Y, Smith B, Giannetti N, Bourbeau J
Serum IgA isotypes are associated with percent emphysema, wall thickness and lung function decline.
Pottinger T, Liu Z, Liu L, Buschur KL, Curtis JL, Manichaikul A, Rich SS, Ortega VE, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Hoffman EA, Smith B, Novak J, Kiryluk K, Barr RG
Associations of Prepandemic Lung Function and Structure with COVID-19 Outcomes: The C4R Study.
Balte PP, Kim JS, Sun Y, Allen N, Angelini E, Arynchyn A, Barr RG, Blaha M, Bowler R, Carr J, Cole SA, Couper D, Demmer RT, Doyle M, Elkind M, San José Estépar R, Garcia-Bedoya O, Garudadri S, Hansel NN, Hermann EA, Hoffman EA, Humphries SM, Hunninghake GM, Kaplan R, Krishnan JA, Laine A, Lee JS, Lynch DA, Make B, Matsushita K, McKleroy W, Min YI, Naik SN, O'Connor G, O'Driscoll O, Oren E, Podolanczuk AJ, Post WS, Pottinger T, Regan E, Rusk A, Salvatore M, Schwartz DA, Smith B, Sotres-Alvarez D, Umans JG, Vasan RS, Washko G, Wenzel S, Woodruff P, Xanthakis V, Ortega VE, Oelsner EC
Airway Tree Caliber and Susceptibility to Pollution-associated Emphysema: MESA Air and Lung Studies.
Sack C, Wang M, Knutson V, Gassett A, Hoffman EA, Sheppard L, Barr RG, Kaufman JD, Smith B
Association Between Long-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Quantitatively Assessed Emphysema and Lung Function.
Wang M, Aaron CP, Madrigano J, Hoffman EA, Angelini E, Yang J, Laine A, Vetterli TM, Kinney PL, Sampson PD, Sheppard LE, Szpiro AA, Adar SD, Kirwa K, Smith B, Lederer DJ, Diez-Roux AV, Vedal S, Kaufman JD, Barr RG
The relationship between emphysema on CT scan and lung cancer.
Smith B
Functional Outcomes, Lung health, and Livelihood Outcomes among people With Tuberculosis (FOLLOW-TB): a pan-Canadian prospective cohort study
Principal investigators: Campbell, Jonathon; Brode, Sarah K; Johnston, James C; Law, Stephanie
Keywords: Lung Health; Public Health; Quality Of Life; Sequelae; Tuberculosis
MAPping Lung DiseasE Through Social Epigenetics, Exposures, and Disparities (MAPLE-SEED) Study
Principal investigators: Leung, Janice
Keywords: Copd; Epigenetics; Methylation
Immune dysanapsis: Updating the paradigm of inflammation and lung health trajectories in diverse populations to achieve lifelong health for all
Principal investigators: Smith, Benjamin M; Brook, Jeffrey R; Doiron, Dany; Duan, Qingling; Lu, Zihang; Sin, Donald; Subbarao, Padmaja
Keywords: Chronic Lung Disease; Developmental Origins Of Health And Disease; Epidemiology; Inflammation
Improving Canadian Lung Cancer Screening Efficiency with a Computed Tomography Risk Classifier
Principal investigators: Smith, Benjamin M; Kirby, Miranda A; Sadatsafavi, Mohsen
Keywords: Airways; Computed Tomography; Lung Cancer; Screening
Airway trees in the Anthropocene: A new paradigm for personalizing COPD prevention, prognosis, and pharmacotherapy
Principal investigators: Smith, Benjamin M
Keywords: Airway Tree; Anthropocene; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Copd); Inhaled Particulates; Pharmacotherapy; Susceptibility
Harnessing predictive analytics for personalized high-value health: nesting clinical decision support for cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a provincial lung cancer screening program
Principal investigators: Ezer, Nicole; McDonald, Emily G
Keywords: Cardiovascular Disease; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Lung Cancer Screening
Air pollution, climate and COPD: acute and long-term impacts in Canadian populations
Principal investigators: Bourbeau, Jean; Brook, Jeffrey R; Smith, Benjamin M
Keywords: Air Pollution; Climate Change; Copd; Exacerbations; Extreme Weather
COVID-19 and COPD: Important knowledge gaps in subclinical pulmonary disease in the Canadian population
Principal investigators: Bourbeau, Jean; Tan, Wan
Keywords: Canadian Cohort Of Obstructive Lung Disease; Cancold; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Comorbidity; Copd; Coronavirus Sars-Cov-2; Corticosteroids; Covid-19; Cytokines; Inflammatory Mediators
Pulmonary vascular dysfunction and exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Principal investigators: Stickland, Michael K
Keywords: Copd; Exercise; Gas Exchange; Vascular Function; Ventilation/Perfusion
A genome-wide association study of dysanapsis
Principal investigators: Smith, Benjamin M; Duan, Qingling
Keywords: Airways; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Computed Tomography; Epidemiology; Genome Wide Association Study
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jean Bourbeau and Benjamin Smith: 1 shared paper
- Jean Bourbeau and Nicole Ezer: 1 shared paper
- Jean Bourbeau and Nadia Giannetti: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Smith and Nicole Ezer: 1 shared paper
- Benjamin Smith and Nadia Giannetti: 1 shared paper
- Medicine
- Medicine/Cardiology
- Respirology
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