Kuo-Hsing Kuo

Cardiovascular

After completing his resident training in Anatomical Pathology (National Taiwan University), Kuo pursued his doctoral studies at the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, UBC on the topic of hypersensitivity of airway smooth muscle. Later, with the support of the IMPACT (Integrated and Mentored Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Training) program and CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) fellowship, he joined the iCAPTURE Centre at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver as a post doctoral fellow and undertook research of ionic signalling of smooth muscle cells in pulmonary and cardiovascular dysfunctions. He currently holds the position of Chair of the Research Ethics Board in the Providence Health Care, which assesses safety issues of clinical trials that involve subjects with pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.