Martin Kolb

Martin Kolb, MD, PhD is an associate professor of medicine and director of research for the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph's Healthcare. He trained with Dr. Jack Gauldie at McMaster University from 1999-2001 and they closely collaborate since then on basic and translational projects in pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Kolb runs a specialty clinic for interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary fibrosis at St. Joseph's Healthcare and is involved as Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member in several multi-center trials for lung fibrosis.

Dr. Kolb has published more than 80 scientific articles and is Deputy Editor for Respirology and on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

He obtained his MD from the University of Würzburg, Germany in 1991, where he also completed a PhD equivalent in Experimental Respirology in 2003.