CTS Scientific Program at CHEST
The CTS Scientific Program is an annual accredited CME event held in conjunction with the CHEST Annual Meeting. The program features lectures and debates delivered by leading Canadian experts in respiratory medicine and research as well as highlighting up and coming faculty.
The 2025 CTS Scientific Program will take place on Monday, October 20, 2025 from 8:00 am – 4:15 p.m. in Chicago, IL. as part of the CHEST 2025. The program details will be posted as they become available. We look forward to seeing you there!
CTS Honorary Lecture
The scientific program features the CTS Honorary Lecture. The CTS Honorary Lecture (formerly known as the Christie Memorial Lecture) is awarded to recognize exemplary leadership in respiratory research and education in Canada. The lecture is presented as part of the honorary lecture series of the CHEST Conference.
2025 Awardee
The CTS Executive is pleased to announce that Dr. Sharon Dell (University of British Columbia) is the 2025 recipient of the CTS Honorary Lecture Award! Nominations for the award were vetted by the CTS Long-term Planning Committee. Dr. Dell’s lecture will be delivered as part of the CTS Scientific Program at CHEST Annual Meeting on Monday, October 20th at 09:15 – 10:15 am in Chicago, IL. Congratulations to Dr. Dell on this special recognition of her significant contributions to advancing respiratory care through her clinical, research and teaching endeavors, along with her tremendous mentorship of clinical trainees and early career clinicians.
Dr. Sharon Dell, BEng, MD, FRCPC is a professor of pediatrics and head, division of respiratory medicine, at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital since June 2020. Previously she was professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and SickKids Hospital. She is past director (2010-2015) of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research MSc/PhD graduate program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Dell leads sub-specialty clinics in primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease (ChILD) and severe asthma. Her research program focuses on evaluating health outcomes, risk factors, genotype/phenotype correlations and diagnostic tests in children with chronic lung diseases. She has held continuous federal grant funding (NIH, CIHR, Health Canada, Canadian Thoracic Society) since starting her academic career in 2002. Dr. Dell is an active member of multiple Canadian and international professional societies and has many international research collaborations in pediatric rare lung disease. She is Deputy Editor for Annals of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) journal since 2017.
Background: The CTS Christie Memorial Lecture was created to honour the memory of one of the major leaders in respiratory research and education in Canada – Dr. Ronald Christie. Dr. Christie was an inspiration in the development of modern respiratory medicine in Canada and was renowned as dean and head of the Department of Medicine at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, as well as being a major supporter of the CTS.
The award was renamed to CTS Honorary Lecture in 2012 and allows attribution to other esteemed individuals whom CTS wishes to recognize in a named lecture.
Past Lecturers
2024 – Meyer Balter
2023 – Sherri Katz
2022 – Dina Brooks
2021 – James Martin
2020 – Roger Goldstein
2019 – Mark FitzGerald
2018 – Douglas Bradley
2017 – Don Sin
2016 – Darcy Marciniuk
2015 – Paul O’Byrne
2014 – Richard Long
2013 – Donald Cockcroft
2012 – Susan Tarlo
2011 – Malcolm Sears
2010 – Jerome Dempsey
2009 – Art Slutsky
2008 – John Remmers
2007 – Peter Warren
2006 – Peter Paré
2005 – David Cotton
2004 – Magdy Younes
2003 – Moira Chan Yeung
2002 – Eliot Phillipson
2001 – Frederick Hargreave
2000 – Clarence Guenter