Additional Affiliations
- Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care Medicine, UBC
July 13, 2022
Dr. Najib Ayas graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta in 1992.
He completed an Internal Medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in 1996, and postgraduate training in Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2000.
Read Less Read MoreHe was on staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for two years and then joined the Sleep Disorders Program at the University of British Columbia in September 2002. He also has a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
His research focuses on the public health and safety consequences of sleep apnea and sleep deprivation. His work has been published in a variety of medical journals including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Sleep, Cardiovascular Nursing, Journal Spinal Cord Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Thorax, Archives of Internal Medicine, Canadian Journal of CME, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine.
CHÉOS' Dr. Najib Ayas is investigating how we can predict which sleep apnea patients are at risk of other health complications like CVD and dementia
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In recognition of Kidney Month, this edition features research on COVID vaccines and dialysis patients, self-management of glomerular disease, and sleep apnea's impact on CKD progression
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CHÉOS Scientists are leading nine of the projects funded in this round, plus a further seven projects are supported by CHÉOS Scientists as co-investigators
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