Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
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Dr. Dildar Ahmad graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin in 1962. He did post-graduate training in Respirology at the Institute of Chest Disease, London, England from 1964 to 1965 . He was granted his fellowship in Respirology in 1974. He joined the faculty at the University of Western Ontario in 1987 and currently holds the rank of Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the University of Western Ontario. His clinical and research interests were in pulmonary disease and heart lung transplants, and he has published widely in that area. He served as Director Lung Transplant program and as Staff Physician, University Campus London Health Sciences Centre from 1998 to 2003, and Consulting Physician, Respirology at the London Cardiac Institute, London from 2003 to present. Dr. Ahmad has been an assessor for the Tribunal from 1995 to present.
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