Researchers´ Profiles - Tom Kovesi

Tom Kovesi is a pediatric respirologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada, and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa.

He received his MD from the University of Ottawa in 1985, trained in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital in Halifax, Canada, and completed his training in pediatric respirology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada in 1992. He is a senior author of the Canadian Pediatric Asthma Consensus Guidelines and past chair of the Pediatric Assembly of the Canadian Thoracic Society. His research interest in the north commenced when he began providing consultant pediatric respiratory care to children in Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) Region, Nunavut, in 1998.

He has received research funding from the Program of Energy Research and Development, Natural Resources Canada, and Nasivvik Centre (Laval ACADRE), Canadian Institutes of Health Research. His research interests include: respiratory infection in Inuit infants and children, and the relationship between indoor air quality and respiratory health in Inuit children. Other research interests include pediatric asthma and cystic fibrosis.

Selected Publications:

Kovesi T, Dales R. Exhaled nitric oxide and respiratory symptoms in a community sample of school aged children. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2008 Dec;43(12):1198-205.

Kovesi T, Kulka R, Dales R. Exhaled nitric oxide concentration is affected by age, height, and race in healthy 9- to 12-year-old children. Chest. 2008 Jan;133(1):169-75.

Kovesi T, Gilbert NL, Stocco C, Fugler D, Dales RE, Guay M, Miller JD. Indoor air quality and the risk of lower respiratory tract infections in young Canadian Inuit children.
CMAJ. 2007 Jul 17;177(2):155-60.

Kovesi T, Creery D, Gilbert NL, Dales R, Fugler D, Thompson B, Randhawa N, Miller JD. Indoor air quality risk factors for severe lower respiratory tract infections in Inuit infants in Baffin Region, Nunavut: a pilot study. Indoor Air. 2006 Aug;16(4):266-75.

Kovesi T, Abdurahman A, Blayney M. Elevated carbon dioxide tension as a predictor of subsequent adverse events in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Lung. 2006 Jan-Feb;184(1):7-13.

Becker A, Lemière C, Bérubé D, Boulet LP, Ducharme FM, FitzGerald M, Kovesi T; Asthma Guidelines Working Group of the Canadian Network For Asthma Care.
Summary of recommendations from the Canadian Asthma Consensus guidelines, 2003.
CMAJ. 2005 Sep 13;173(6 Suppl):S3-11. Review.

Becker A, Bérubé D, Chad Z, Dolovich M, Ducharme F, D'Urzo T, Ernst P, Ferguson A, Gillespie C, Kapur S, Kovesi T, Lyttle B, Mazer B, Montgomery M, Pedersen S, Pianosi P, Reisman JJ, Sears M, Simons E, Spier S, Thivierge R, Watson W, Zimmerman B; Canadian Network For Asthma Care; Canadian Thoracic Society. Canadian Pediatric Asthma Consensus guidelines, 2003 (updated to December 2004): introduction. CMAJ. 2005 Sep 13;173(6 Suppl):S12-4.

Kovesi T, Rubin S. Long-term complications of congenital esophageal atresia and/or tracheoesophageal fistula. Chest. 2004 Sep;126(3):915-25. Review.

Finder JD, Birnkrant D, Carl J, Farber HJ, Gozal D, Iannaccone ST, Kovesi T, Kravitz RM, Panitch H, Schramm C, Schroth M, Sharma G, Sievers L, Silvestri JM, Sterni L; American Thoracic Society. Respiratory care of the patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: ATS consensus statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2004 Aug 15;170(4):456-65. Review.

Johansen HK, Kovesi TA, Koch C, Corey M, Høiby N, Levison H. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia infection in cystic fibrosis patients treated in Toronto and Copenhagen. Pediatr Pulmonol. 1998 Aug;26(2):89-96.

Kovesi T, Corey M, Levison H. Passive smoking and lung function in cystic fibrosis.