Dr. Imran Satia was born in England and graduated in Medicine from the University of Cambridge in 2006 with a Masters in Neurophysiology. He gained his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, London, UK) and completed his specialist training in general internal medicine and respiratory medicine in the North-West of England. In 2017 he was awarded a PhD in the mechanisms of cough in asthma from the University of Manchester and was awarded the British Medical Association James Trust Award award. He received the ERS Respire 3 Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McMaster University in 2018. Imran was awarded the E.J. Moran Campbell Early Career Award (2021) and European Respiratory Society Mid-Career Gold Medal in Chronic Cough (2023). Imran co-founded the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) working group on chronic cough and currently holds a CIHR Planning and Dissemination grant on “Setting priorities and partnerships for chronic cough in Canada – Can-Cough. Dr. Satia is now on Faculty at McMaster University and the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health working as an Assistant Professor in Respiratory Medicine. He consults on patients with asthma, refractory chronic cough, complex airways diseases and has a broad research interest in understanding the mechanisms and developing treatments for these troublesome conditions.