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Juthaporn Cowan, MD, PhD, FRCPC
(613)737-8899 ext. 79617

Administrative Coordinator:
Andrea Trinidad
atrinidad@toh.ca

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Juthaporn Cowan

Associate Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Ottawa
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
University of Ottawa

Research Interests

  • Prevention of infections in non-HIV immunodeficiency particularly post-transplantation
  • Vaccination in immunocompromised patients
  • Immunotherapy for primary and secondary immunodeficiency diseases
  • Cellular and molecular immunology of infectious diseases
  • Microbial pathogenesis and host immune defence mechanism 
       

Brief Biography

Juthaporn Cowan is an Associate Scientist at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Assistant Professor at The University of Ottawa, cross-appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology and a Physician for the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Ottawa Hospital.

Dr. Cowan began her training at Mahidol University in Thailand for her MD. She also obtained a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Her research at the time focused on Tuberculosis and immunopathogenesis. She then started her Internal Medicine training at the University of Ottawa. During her postgraduate training her interest shifted from tuberculosis to infection in immunodeficiency patients. Subsequently, she completed a Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases with the University of Ottawa.

Drs. D. William Cameron and Cowan run an immunodeficiency/immunoglobulin treatment clinic in Ottawa. The clinic is expanding and is served as a resource for clinical research.

Selected Publications

Ieta, S., Ivory, C., Cowan, J. (2022). Duration of prednisone treatment before development of Pneumocystis jerovecii pneumonia in patients with vasculitis: A Case Series. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/jammi-2021-0031

Cowan. J., Mulpuru, S., Abdallah, S., Chopra, A., Purssell, A., McGuinty, M., Alvarez, G., Giulivi, A., Corrales-Medina, V., MacFadden, D., Boyle, L., Hasimja, D., Thavorn, K., Mallick, R., Aaron, S., Cameron, DW. (2021). A randomized double-blind placebo-control feasibility trial of immunoglobulin treatment for prevention of recurrent acute exacerbations of COPD. International Journal of COPD. 16, 3275-3284. DOI:10.2147/COPD.S338849

Patel, V., Cameron, D.W., Cowan, J. (2021). Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy Discontinuation in Patients with Antibody Deficiency Secondary to Hematological Malignancy: A Single-Center Study. Hematological Oncology. DOI: 10.1002/hon.2900

Poenaru, S., Abdallah, S.J., Corrales-Medina, V., Cowan, J. (2021). COVID-19 and post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review. Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease. DOI: 10.1177/20499361211009385

Abdallah, S., Voduc, N., Corrales-Medina, V., McGuinty, M., Pratt, A., Chopra, A., Law, A., Garuba, H., Thavorn, K., Reid, R., Lavoie, K., Crawley, A., Chirinos, J., Cowan, J. (2021). Symptoms, pulmonary function and functional capacity four months after COVID-19. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202012-1489RL

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