Magdy Younes MD, FRCPC, PhD

Dr. Younes is a world-renowned respiratory specialist and innovator. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada as well as a Senior Scholar in its Faculty of Medicine. He is also a research professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Younes received his MD from the University of Alexandria in Egypt and went on to train in internal medicine and Respirology at McGill University in Montreal, where he also obtained a PhD specializing in pulmonary physiology. He established the sleep laboratory at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg in 1991 and was its director until he retired from active practice.

Dr. Younes has done extensive research in the areas of Respirology and respiratory physiology including topics such as reflex control of breathing, control of breathing during exercise, the pathogenesis of respiratory failure, and sleep apnea. His research has resulted in 136 original peer-reviewed papers and 22 book chapters and reviews. His work, specifically on sleep apnea, has appeared in 19 influential peer-reviewed publications on the pathogenesis of the disorder. Dr. Younes was recently invited to write the chapter on sleep apnea in the authoritative Comprehensive Physiology (formerly the Handbook of Physiology), published by the American Physiological Society.