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Dr. Jean-Pierre Lavoie

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Dr. Jean-Pierre Lavoie is a clinician-scientist at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal. He obtained his Doctor in Veterinary Medicine Degree in 1980, followed by an internship at the Université de Montréal. He then completed a residency training in large animal internal medicine at the University of California and was granted his Diplomate Status from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1988. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in equine respiratory function at the University of California in 1988, he returned to the Université of Montréal and funded the Equine Asthma Research Laboratory. He is now an internationally recognized expert in the study of equine asthma as a model for human asthma and he has led numerous research programs funded by national granting agencies and industry (R&D), evaluating equine lung function, airway inflammation and remodeling, and their response to therapy.

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Asthma
Horses
Neutrophils

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Dr. Jean-Pierre Lavoie is a clinician-scientist at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Université de Montréal. He obtained his Doctor in Veterinary Medicine Degree in 1980, followed by an internship at the Université de Montréal. He then completed a residency training in large animal internal medicine at the University of California and was granted his Diplomate Status from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1988. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in equine respiratory function at the University of California in 1988, he returned to the Université of Montréal and funded the Equine Asthma Research Laboratory. He is now an internationally recognized expert in the study of equine asthma as a model for human asthma and he has led numerous research programs funded by national granting agencies and industry (R&D), evaluating equine lung function, airway inflammation and remodeling, and their response to therapy.