Dr. Erika Penz is an Associate Professor in Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, where she also serves as Director of the Respirology Fellowship Training Program and is the Medical Lead for the Saskatchewan Lung Cancer Screening program. Her main research focus revolves around health economics and health policy, and burden of disease studies, with a focus on respiratory diseases. She serves as co-Chair of the COPD Assembly of the Canadian Thoracic Society and is an Advisory Board member of the Institute for Cancer Research/Canadian Institutes of Health Research.