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.