Dr Eliot Phillipson

Dr Eliot Phillipson has been appointed president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), succeeding Dr David Strangway who is leaving on March 31 to pursue the establishment of the Sea To Sky Univ fulltime. Phillipson is currently the chair of the Univ of Toronto’s department of medicine and will assume his new duties July 1. Until then, senior VP Carmen Charette will hold the president’s position on an interim basis. Phillipson has had a long career in both Canada and the US. After undertaking research training at the Univ of California at San Francisco’s Cardiovascular Research Institute in the late 1960s, he moved to the Univ of Toronto as a clinician-scientist. From 1987 to 1997, he served as physician-in-chief at the Mount Sinai Hospital before moving back to the U of T as the Sir John and Lady Eaton professor and departmental chair. Phillipson holds an MD with distinction and a master of science (medicine) from the Univ of Alberta. His research focus has been on developing a conceptual framework of the physiological mechanisms involved in the regulation of respiration during sleep….