Dr. John T. Fisher, Ph.D

Dr. John T. Fisher, Ph.D

Medical Advisory Committee

Dr. Fisher is an Associate Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen’s University and the Queen’s University delegate to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is also the Director of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a member of the Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Medicine (Respirology). His research focuses on the physiologic genomics of cardiopulmonary autonomic control in health and disease.

Prior to his appointment to the VPR portfolio, Dr. Fisher was Associate Dean (Academic) and Acting Vice-Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queens.  He is also past Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the Ontario Thoracic Society (OTS), from which he received the Meritorious Service Award in 2008. Dr. Fisher is the current Co-Editor of Frontiers in Respiratory Physiology and recently served as the invited editor for the journal, Current Opinion in Pharmacology.