Dr. Tom Kovesi is a pediatric respirologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. He is currently a member of the WHO Working Group on Rare Diseases. He is past-Chair of the Ontario Thoracic Society. Dr. Kovesi is past-Chief Examiner for Pediatric Respirology, for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He has served as a senior author on the Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines Committee. Dr. Kovesi has 58 published articles. His main areas of interest are lung health and indoor air quality in Canadian indigenous children, long-term respiratory complications of tracheoesophageal fistula, and asthma.