Dr. Richard Leigh is a physician-scientist and the Senior Associate Dean – Faculty Affairs in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Leigh’s areas of interest include understanding the basic mechanisms underlying airway remodeling in asthma, the assessment of airway inflammation and early phase clinical trials in asthma and COPD. His clinical practice focuses on severe asthma and other airways diseases, and he previously served as the Chair of the Department of Medicine before taking up his current appointment in January 2020. Dr. Leigh was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2021.