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The Ontario Thoracic Society (OTS) is a medical section of the Ontario Lung Association (OLA). Its membership consists primarily of respirologists practicing in Ontario. For more information on the benefits of membership, please click here.

Mission

The mission statement of the Society is:

"To promote respiratory health through medical research and education."

• To provide scientific and educational advice to the OLA.
• To assist the OLA in furthering its goals of supporting medical research and conducting community health programs.
• To facilitate, encourage, and adjudicate clinical, epidemiological, and basic scientific research in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of respiratory disease and the promotion of respiratory health.
• To support and facilitate continuing medical education into all aspects of respiratory health and disease throughout the province of Ontario.
• To liaise with the Canadian Thoracic Society and other provincial thoracic societies in the achievement of these common goals.

Ontario Thoracic Society Executive Committee (2010-2011)

Chair: Hans Stelzer, MD, FRCPC     Chair-Elect: Michael Fitzpatrick, MD, FRCPI, FRCPC, DABSM     Past Chair: John Granton, MD, FRCPC     OLA Board Representative: John Bertley, MD, FRCPC     Research Advisory Committee Chair: Shawn Aaron, MD, MSc, FRCPC     2011 Better Breathing Chair: Jae Won Yang, MD, FRCPC     Members at Large: Christopher Allen, MA, BM, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC Thomas Kovesi, MD, FRCPC Christopher Licskai, MD, FRCPC Susan Moffatt, MD, FRCPC Matthew Stanbrook, MD, FRCPC     Ex-Officio Members       OLA Board Member: Brenda Butters     OMA Representative: Helen Ramsdale MA, BM, MRCP (UK), FRCPC     Program Director Representative: Lori Whitehead, MD, FRCP(C)     Pediatric Representative: Sharon Dell, MD, BEng, FRCPC     OTS Medical Director: Hedy Ginzberg, MDCM, FRCPC, PhD     OTS Administrator: Jeanne Castellanos, Hons. BA