Dr. Kerri Johannson

Dr. Kerri Johannson MD MPH FRCPC ATSF is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and co-leads the Translational Research Portfolio for the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases. She completed medical training at the University of Calgary, with an Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco and MPH in Environmental Health Sciences at UC-Berkeley. She is Research Director for the Calgary ILD program, and post-graduate ILD Fellowship Director. She is a Deputy Editor at Annals of the American Thoracic Society, on the Editorial Boards of the European Respiratory Journal and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and the International Advisory Board for Lancet Respiratory medicine. She is co-chair of the Canadian Thoracic Society’s ILD Assembly and has served on multiple leadership roles within the American Thoracic Society. She is on the Leadership Committee for the International Colloquium for Lung and Airway Fibrosis, on the Steering Committee and Calgary Site PI for the Canadian Registry for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CARE-PF).

Dr. Johannson’s research is focused on characterizing the impact of environmental exposures on pulmonary fibrosis and improving the lives of patients with ILD. Her research combines clinical epidemiology, environmental health science, and translational approaches to better understand disease mechanisms, risk factors, and ways to improve patient outcomes.

Current studies include

o   Epigenetic Impacts of Exposures on Fibrotic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

o   Defining the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Pulmonary Fibrosis

o   Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis: Defining Gene x Environment Interaction

o   Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis: Patient and Partner Involvement and Engagement to Design a Prospective Cohort Study