ELIOT PHILLIPSON

Eliot Phillipson was appointed President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation in July 2004. He had been Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital 1987 to 1997, and Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto from 1993 to 2004. His research has focused on the regulation of respiration during sleep, and forms the basis for understanding several sleep-related breathing disorders. Dr. Phillipson is an elected member of the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation (1979), and the Association of American Physicians (1991). He was the President of the Canadian Association of Professors of Medicine from 1997 to 1998, and President of the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine from 2000 to 2002. He was the 2004 recipient of the Presidential Award of the European Respiratory Society.