Jason C. Weatherald MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Jason Weatherald is a respirologist and an associate professor at the Univerisity of Alberta. He completed his MD and internal medicine residency at the University of Alberta followed by respiratory medicine fellowship training at the University of Calgary. He completed a European Respiratory Society/Canadian Respiratory Society-funded research fellowship in pulmonary vascular disease at Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France under the supervision of Prof. Marc Humbert and Prof. Olivier Sitbon. 

His research examines the pathophysiology of pulmonary vascular disease, specifically gas exchange and pulmonary arterial hemodynamics during exercise. He has also published on risk stratification strategies in pulmonary arterial hypertension. As a recent Canadian Vascular Network/Bayer fellowship recipient, his current research involves wave intensity analysis to describe right ventricular-pulmonary arterial interaction in patients with pulmonary hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.