Dr. Simon Couillard is a Canadian specialist in respiratory medicine, researcher and assistant professor at the Université de Sherbooke (Sherbrooke, Canada). He finished a two-year clinical research fellowship in severe asthma and graduated with distinction from the University of Oxford MSc in experimental and translational therapeutics. His research themes are biomarker-guided prediction, prevention and management of airways disease. He is undertaking a joint Oxford-Leiden collaboration on risk prediction in asthma.