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In the early 1970s, when I was a pathology professor at McGill University — home to one of North America’s most prestigious lung-research centres — I paid St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver a visit. I was impressed by its clinical and teaching programs that underpinned the hospital’s pulmonary care.
But I believed that research was an element that could make things even better.
In 1976, Dr. Peter Paré, who worked with me at McGill, and I were invited by St. Paul’s and the University of B.C. to set up a pulmonary research unit from scratch.
Dr. James Hogg writes
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