Samir Gupta is a clinician-scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also a Staff Respirologist in the Division of Respirology at St. Michael’s Hospital. He completed his Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in Knowledge Translation Research. His main research interest is in knowledge translation in primary care, across the spectrum of respiratory illness, with a focus on electronic tools, and asthma. He also has an interest in rare lung disease epidemiology and research methods, particularly liver-lung interactions and the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Canadian Respiratory Guidelines Committee, as an investigator in the Pulmonary Vascular Complications of Liver Disease Research Consortium, and as the Global Television Evening News Medical Correspondent.
