Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Stephen Wright

Supervisor: Dr. Neil Eves |  Integrative Clinical Cardiopulmonary Physiology Lab

Email: Stephen.Wright@ubc.ca

A CIHR postdoctoral fellow, Stephen completed his PhD in Medical Science and MSc in Exercise Science at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital. His research focuses on cardiopulmonary hemodynamics, their relationship to exercise capacity and tolerance, and the modifying influences of sex, normal ageing, and chronic disease. Stephen is leading two projects. The first examines how breathing impacts heart function at rest and during exercise, whether interactions work differently in women compared to men, and how healthy aging influences those interactions. The second examines how impaired heart function impacts lung function and contributes to the sensation of breathlessness during exercise in adults living with heart failure, and testing whether using lower-body negative pressure during exercise can reduce breathlessness.