Clarus Leung

Dr. Clarus Leung completed her MD at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She pursued internal medicine residency and respirology fellowship at UBC. After her clinical training in 2021, Clarus pursued a two-year research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco where she obtained her Master’s Advanced Study in Clinical and Epidemiologic Research. Her research work involved using quantitative computed tomography lung imaging and design-based stereology methods in airway endobronchial biopsies to uncover disease mechanisms, clinical endotypes, and airway remodeling in asthma. After the completion of her research training at UCSF, Clarus returned to UBC as a postdoctoral fellow and respirologist specializing in the care of patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the Pacific Lung Health Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital. Her ongoing research work will be supervised by Dr. Don Sin in the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, and aims to uncover the airway inflammation biology of asthma-COPD overlap so that clinicians can better diagnose and prescribe the most effective therapies for this under-recognized respiratory disease.