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Name
  
James Hogg


Role
  
Physician

Awards
  
Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award

Dr James C Hogg


Doctor James C. Hogg (born December 3, 1935) is a Canadian physician.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Hogg studied medicine at the University of Manitoba and McGill University. He completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McGill. Hogg became an assistant professor in pathology at McGill in 1971 and moved to the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1977. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1974 and of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992. He is the principal investigator at the UBC James Hogg Research Centre at St. Paul's Hospital and professor emeritus in the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine department at UBC.

Hogg has been recognized for his research into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. He received the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award in 2013.

He became an officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2010.

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