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 Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs
Mara Ludwig
It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Dr. Mara Ludwig as the new Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, replacing John Robson and reporting to me.
In this position, Dr. Ludwig will assume responsibility for the management and mentoring of faculty throughout the professorial lifecycle, including recruitment, promotion and tenure of academic personnel. She will also ensure the development of policies and procedures supporting each of these phases, while participating in and chairing related committees and task forces to advance her mandate.
Dr. Ludwig, a tenured professor in the Department of Medicine of McGill University, received her MD from the University of Manitoba in 1979 and completed clinical training in Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles, as well as at the Royal Victoria Hospital. She went on to clinical and research fellowships in Pulmonary Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, joining the McGill Faculty of Medicine in 1986. Dr. Ludwig is a respirologist in the Division of Respiratory Medicine of the McGill University Health Centre and has pursued her research career at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories.
Focusing on respiratory physiology and cell biology, Dr. Ludwig’s current major research interests include the lung extracellular matrix and respiratory diseases characterized by remodeling, such as asthma and pulmonary fibrosis. Her laboratory has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research since 1988, and she has published 75 peer-reviewed manuscripts and eight book chapters based on this work.
Dr. Ludwig has received a number of fellowship and career awards throughout her tenure at McGill, including a Medical Research Council of Canada Scholarship and junior and senior Chercheur Boursier awards from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec. She has also participated in and chaired a number of committees at McGill and at the national and international levels, including with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the American Thoracic Society.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Ludwig as the new Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, and in wishing her the utmost success as we step up to the challenges of 21st century medical education, research, health care and advocacy.
Richard I. Levin, MD
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