Assembly on Pulmonary Rehabilitation Early Career Research Achievement Award

Meet the 2026 Awardee: Bryan A. Ross, MD, FRCPC, MSCE, MSc, BSc (Hons)

Bryan A. Ross, MD, FRCPC, MSCE, MSc, BSc (Hons) is a Clinician-Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Respirologist at the MUHC, and Assistant Professor at McGill University in Montreal. He is Co-Director of the renowned COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinical program at the Montreal Chest Institute (MCI) of the MUHC, and Director of the McGill Accredited COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Clinical Fellowship Training Program. He holds national and international leadership positions within the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS), including serving as the ATS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Early Career Working Group (ECWG) Chair.His innovative clinical research program is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec Santé (FRQS) and by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and addresses the determinants and management of COPD, with a focus on Pulmonary 

Rehabilitation, Digital Health, and Exacerbations. Ongoing research in the capacity as Principal Investigator includes a large CIHR-funded multi-site RCT targeting active Pulmonary Rehabilitation participants with COPD. His original research has been published in the Chest journal, the Thorax journal, the European Respiratory Journal Open Research, the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, and in eBioMedicine-Lancet..

Description

This award is given to a Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Assembly member (primary or secondary) who has recognized scientific contribution(s) to the principles and practice of pulmonary rehabilitation and has made contributions to PR Assembly (and ATS) activities. Relevant research contributions may include but are not limited to: program structure, program content, outcomes or outcome measures, skeletal muscle dysfunction, exercise training, adjuncts to exercise training, mechanisms underlying benefits of PR, education, self- management, health-enhancing behavior change, social or psychological support, knowledge translation and program accreditation.

Criteria

• At the time of submission nominees must be a maximum of 10 years from date of conferral of highest research degree, or, if no research degree, from date of first faculty appointment (career disruption will be considered).

Proposers must submit a nomination package including:

1. Details and confirmation of the nominee’s status as a primary or secondary member of the PR Assembly
2. Date of conferral of doctoral level degree
3. Date of first faculty appointment (if applicable).
4. A one-page letter from a primary member of the Assembly describing the nominee’s contributions (including to the PR Assembly/ATS) and why the award is appropriate
5. The nominee’s curriculum vitae, including details of career disruption where relevant.

Applications will be scored on the basis of the details provided in the submitted nomination.

Awards will only be given where suitable candidates are nominated.