Eliot A. Phillipson
President and CEO
Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Ottawa, Ontario

In July 2004, following a distinguished career in the health, medical, research, and academic fields spanning 35 years, Dr. Eliot Phillipson joined the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) as its third President and CEO. Dr. Phillipson brings his considerable experience and expertise to the CFI as it enters a new era of funding state-of-the-art research infrastructure across Canada. Dr. Phillipson began his career after receiving his M.D., with Distinction, in 1963, and his Masters of Science (Medicine) in 1965, both from the University of Alberta. Following postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta, he undertook research training at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California San Francisco from 1968 to 1971. In 1971, he was appointed to the University of Toronto as a clinician-scientist with a research focus in the regulation of respiration. From 1987 to 1997, Dr. Phillipson served as Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 1993, he was appointed Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, a position he held until June 2004. His research has focused on the regulation of respiration during sleep, and forms the basis for understanding several sleep-related breathing disorders.

Throughout his career, Dr. Phillipson has received numerous honours and awards. He is an elected member of the prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation (1979), and the Association of American Physicians (1991). He was the President of the Canadian Association of Professors of Medicine from 1997 to 1998, and President of the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine from 2000 to 2002. He is the 2004 recipient of the Presidential Award of the European Respiratory Society.

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