Geoffrey Maksym

Geoff Maksym is Professor of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and leads the respiratory cell and lung mechanics laboratory. He trained at McGill University and the Harvard School of Public Health. His research is respiratory mechanics from the cellular level to human organ function. He develops research tools to probe the mechanical properties from the cytoskeleton of airway smooth muscle cells, including 3D tissue engineering constructs, to measurements of the respiratory system in humans. He co-founded Thorasys, Montreal, and developed the Tremoflo C-100 for handheld portable oscillometry, which measures mechanical function and time tracking of respiratory mechanics, used world-wide for research, pharmaceutical trials and clinically. He has significant research contributions in computational modeling of the multibranched airway tree impedance in health and disease and biomedical engineering applications in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmo