Bruce McManus, PhD, MD
His academic and leadership roles have spanned CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre), Director of the UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, the inaugural Director of the Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul’s Hospital, Co-Director of the community-wide Institute for Heart and Lung Health, and inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Dr. McManus’s investigative work relates to mechanisms, consequences, and detection of myocardial injury and aberrant repair in inflammatory diseases of the heart and blood vessels, informing contemporary approaches to the diagnosis and management of acute viral myocarditis and its progression to heart failure. His life’s scholarship includes more than 450 peer-reviewed publications, over 60 invited chapters, and several books, and he has trained a generation of clinicians and scientists who are advancing novel therapies for inflammatory cardiomyopathies.
Dr. McManus holds BA and MD degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, an MSc from Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD from the University of Toledo. He completed post-doctoral fellowships in Environmental Physiology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Pathology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, as well as residency training in Internal Medicine and Pathology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard University. Prior to his appointment at the University of British Columbia, Dr. McManus served on the faculty of the University of Nebraska Medical Center for eleven years.
Dr. McManus has been widely honored for his scientific and mentoring contributions, including the prestigious Max Planck Research Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, the Howard Morgan Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Blood Services. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been appointed to both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
