James Hogg is an Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia and former Vice President – Research of St. Paul’s Hospital where he is an active investigator in the iCAPTURE center. He joined McGill University as an Assistant Professor of Pathology in 1971 and in 1977, he and Dr. Peter Pare moved to the University of British Columbia to set up a pulmonary research laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital. This laboratory became UBC’s iCAPTURE center for cardiopulmonary research and currently has 20 fulltime investigators and a staff of nearly 200. Dr. Hogg’s research relates the clinical features of lung disease to microscopic and molecular findings in lung tissue and his publications can be found in the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet in 2004. Dr. Hogg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005.