Connie Hsia, M.D.
Professor
Department Internal Medicine
Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering
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Biography
Research interests:
Pulmonary physiology
Mechanisms of lung growth, repair and regeneration
Quantitative assessment of lung structure
Non-invasive functional imaging of the lung.
Clinical interests:
Lung function in diabetes mellitus, sarcoidosis, and destructive lung disease.
Education
- Medical School
- University of Toronto (1982)
- Internship
- St. Michael's Hospital (1983), Medicine
- Residency
- University of Toronto Affiliated Hospitals (1985), Internal Medicine
- Fellowship
- University of Toronto Affiliated Hospitals (1987), Respiratory Medicine
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (1989), Pulmonary Research
Research Interest
- Adaptation to high altitude / hypoxia
- Exercise pulmonary physiology
- Gas exchange and oxygen transport
- Mechanisms of compensatory lung growth
Publications
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Honors & Awards
- American Heart Association
Established Investigator Award - Will Rogers Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Physiological Society
- American Thoracic Society - Fellow
- European Respiratory Society
- Fleischner Society for Thoracic Imaging and Diagnosis
- Texas Medical Association
- World Association of Sarcoidosis and other Granulomatous Disorders
- American College of Chest Physicians - Fellow
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - Fellow