Dr. Vozoris is an Associate Professor and Clinician Investigator within the Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. He is also a Staff Respirologist at St. Michael’s Hospital with expertise in sleep medicine, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and tuberculosis.<\/p>\n
His primary research focus is understanding the use and potential pulmonary health effects of psychoactive and sedative medications (e.g., opioids, cannabis, synthetic cannabinoids, benzodiazepines, serotonergic antidepressants, etc.) within chronic respiratory disease populations. His secondary research focus is understanding the impact of sleep breathing disorder on medical comorbidity, especially chronic pulmonary diseases. Dr. Vozoris\u2019 research work involves using observational study designs, analyzing different types of pre-existing, population-based databases, such as Ontario provincial health administrative databases that are housed at ICES, and Canadian and United States national health survey data.<\/p>\n
Dr. Vozoris completed a Master of Health Sciences degree in the Department of Community Health at the University of Toronto. He also undertook research training at ICES prior to joining the faculty at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Vozoris is an Associate Professor and Clinician Investigator within the Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. He is also a Staff Respirologist at St. Michael’s Hospital with expertise in sleep medicine, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and tuberculosis. His primary research focus is understanding the use and potential pulmonary health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":510,"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"ices_title":[75],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-1115","ices_scientist","type-ices_scientist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ices_title-adjunct-scientist-full-status"],"acf":{"first_name":"Nicholas","last_name":"Vozoris","secondary_title":"","education":[{"title":"FRCPC"},{"title":"MD, University of Toronto"},{"title":"MHSc, Community Health, University of Toronto"},{"title":"BSc, University of Toronto"}],"other_affiliations":[{"title":"Assistant Professor, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto"},{"title":"Staff Physician, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital"},{"title":"Associate Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael\u2019s Hospital"}],"journal_article":[5576,3463,6513,2437,3649,3065,4596,6524,1993,5539,4420,5754,1479,4005,2966,19733,20142,23054,23530],"research_report":"","atlas":"","site":[6733],"research_program":[6746],"research_focus":[10745,10769,10757,10738],"grant":"","award_or_recognition":"","news_release":[7385],"ahrq_project":"","private_project":"","public_project":"","video":"","contact_display":"form","email":"nick.vozoris@utoronto.ca","display_email":false,"twitter_handle":"","display_twitter":false,"phone":"416-864-6026","phone_extension":"","display_phone":false,"assistant_name":"Jennifer Carvalho","assistant_title":"Administrative Assistant","display_assistant_name":false,"assistant_phone":"416-864-6026","assistant_phone_extension":"","display_assistant_phone":false,"sitecore_item_id":"4842EDAF-1B6E-4A29-A8E4-3B22A9BABC68","sitecore_item_name":"Nicholas-Vozoris","sitecore_field_values":"{\n \"First Name\": \"Nicholas\",\n \"Last Name\": \"Vozoris\",\n \"Profile Image\": \"
Dr. Vozoris is an assistant professor and clinician investigator within the Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. He is also a staff respirologist at St. Michael's Hospital with expertise in sleep medicine, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and tuberculosis. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto. He undertook internal medicine residency training at Queen's University and respirology residency training at the University of Toronto. After finishing residency training, he did a one-year sleep medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto. He also completed a Masters of Health Sciences degree in the Department of Community Health at the University of Toronto prior to medical school. He also undertook research training at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences. His main research interest is areas of overlap between sleep medicine and chronic lung disease.<\/p>\",\n \"Join Date\": \"20180801T000000\"\n}","previous_url":"https:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/About-ICES\/ICES-Scientists\/V\/Nicholas-Vozoris"},"yoast_head":"\n