For additional information about the LEAD program, please contact:
Dr. Holly Thomas
LEAD Program Director
Associate Program Director for Research
Dr. Georgios Kitsios
Director, Basic and Translational Research Track
Dr. Jessica Bon
LEAD Associate Program Director for Research,
LEAD Executive Committee
Research Mentors and Projects
Our website has a wide variety of research opportunities within internal medicine and its subspecialties, as seen below. However, we realize that there are wonderful opportunities that do not strictly fall within the department of medicine. For residents that are interested in exploring other opportunities, we encourage you to check out the Pitt research website which displays a wider variety of mentors and projects: https://upsomtraineeresearch.pitt.edu/.
Cardiology |
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Fellowship Director: | Katie Berlacher, MD |
Research Point Person: | Stephen Chan, MD, PhD |
Endocrinology and Metabolism |
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Fellowship Director: | Maja Stefanovic-Racic, MD, PhD |
Research Point Person: | Maja Stefanovic-Racic, MD, PhD |
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
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Fellowship Director: | Kenneth Fasanella, MD |
Research Point Person: | Dhiraj Yadav, MD, MPH / Gavin Arteel, PhD |
General Internal Medicine |
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Fellowship Director: | Carla Spagnoletti, MD, MS |
Meded Projects: | Carla Spagnoletti, MD, MS |
GIM Research Projects: | Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA |
Quality Improvement: | Allison DeKosky, MD |
Geriatric Medicine |
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Fellowship Director: | Karen Scandrett, MD, MPH |
Research Point Person: | Debra Weiner, MD |
Hematology/Oncology |
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Fellowship Director: | Annie Im, MD |
Research Point Person: | Annie Im, MD / Tim Burns, MD, PhD |
Infectious Diseases |
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Fellowship Director: | Rima Abdel-Massih, MD |
Research Point Person: | Beej Macatangay, MD |
Palliative Care |
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Fellowship Director: | Rebecca Sands, DO |
Research Point Person: | Yael Schenker, MD, MAS |
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine |
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Fellowship Director: | Jessica Bon Field, MD, MS |
Research Point Person: | Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD |
Renal-Electrolyte |
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Fellowship Director: | Helbert Rondon Berrios, MD, MS |
Research Point Person: | Cary Boyd-Shiwarski, MD, PhD |
Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology |
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Fellowship Director: | Niveditha Mohan, MD |
Research Point Person: | Jeremy Tilstra, MD, PhD |
Cardiology
PI | Key words describing research program | Title(s) for Shovel-Ready Research Projects |
Interventional: | ||
John J. Pacella, MD, MS |
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Flordeliza Villanueva, MD Lab website |
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Electrophysiology: | ||
Samir Saba, MD |
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Sandeep Jain, MD |
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Guy Salama, MD |
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Heart Failure: | ||
John J. Pacella, MD, MS |
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Timothy Wong, MD, MS |
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Imaging: | ||
Erik Schelbert, MD, MS |
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Prem Soman, MD, PhD Lab website |
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Thrombosis: | ||
Sruti Shiva, PhD |
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Public Health: | ||
Jared Magnani, MD, MSc |
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Matthew Muldoon, MD, MPH |
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Suresh Mulukutla, MD |
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Pulmonary Hypertension: | ||
Imad Al Ghouleh, PhD |
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Stephen Chan, MD, PhD Lab website |
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Vessels and MI Pathophysiology: | ||
Partha Dutta, DVM, PhD Lab website |
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Toren Finkel, MD, PhD Lab website |
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Delphine Gomez, PhD | ||
Brett Kaufman, PhD Lab website |
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Iain Scott, PhD |
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Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD Lab website |
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Adam Straub, PhD Lab website |
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Endocrinology and Metabolism
PI | Key Words | Title(s) for Shovel-Ready Research Projects |
Pouneh K Fazeli, MD, MPH |
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Hussain Mahmud, MD |
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Jagdeesh Ullal, MD, MS, FACE, FACP, ECNU |
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Diabetes and Metabolism: | ||
Archana Bandi, MD |
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Ronald Codario, MD |
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Michael Jurczak, PhD |
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Erin Kershaw, MD |
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Mary Korytkowski, MD |
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Jason Ng, MD |
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Robert O'Doherty, PhD |
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David Rometo, MD |
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Linda Siminerio, RN, PhD |
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Fred Toledo, MD |
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Vijay Yechoor, MD |
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Thyroid Disease: | ||
Pooja Manroa, MD |
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Hypogonadism: | ||
Alexandra Clark, MD |
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Metabolic Immunology: | ||
Alison Kohan, PhD |
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Cellular Mechanics: | ||
Sadeesh Ramakrishnan, PhD |
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Yusuke Sekine, PhD |
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Biorhythms: | ||
Bokai Zhu, PhD Lab website |
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Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
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Neurogastroenterology: | ||
Kathryn M Albers, PhD | ||
Brian M. Davis, PhD | ||
David Levinthal, MD, PhD | ||
Hepatology: | ||
Gavin Arteel, PhD |
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Ramon Bataller, MD, PhD |
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Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD |
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Juliane I. Beier, PhD | ||
Andres Duarte-Rojo, MD, PhD, FACP | ||
Satdarshan (Paul) Monga, MD | ||
Shari S. Rogal, MD, MPH |
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: | ||
David Binion, MD |
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Rhonda Brand, PhD | ||
Jeffrey M Dueker, MD, MPH |
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Richard H. Duerr, MD |
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Elyse Johnston, MD |
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Pancreaticobiliary: | ||
Randall E. Brand, MD | ||
Kenneth E. Fasanella, MD |
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Jing Hu, PhD | ||
Asif Khalid, MD | ||
Yang Liu, PhD | ||
Kevin McGrath, MD |
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Anna Evans Phillips, MD, MS |
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Jami L. Saloman, PhD |
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David C. Whitcomb, MD, PhD |
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Dhiraj Yadav, MD, MPH |
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Colon Cancer: | ||
Robert Schoen, MD, MPH |
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Miscellaneous: | ||
J. B. McGee, MD |
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Eva M Szigethy, MD, PhD |
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General Internal Medicine
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Quality Improvement and Hospital Operations: | ||
Allison DeKosky, MD | ||
Benjamin Sprague, MD, MS | ||
Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA |
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John Szymusiak, MD, MS |
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Primary Care/Behavioral Health: | ||
Bruce Rollman, MD, MPH |
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Ann-Marie Rosland, MD, MS |
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General Medicine/General Determinants of Health: | ||
Anna Donovan, MD, MS |
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Utibe Essien, MD, MPH |
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Michael Fine, MD, MSc |
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Leslie Hausmann, PhD |
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Tom Radomski, MD, MS |
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Ken Smith, MD, MS |
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Galen Switzer, PhD |
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Women's Health: | ||
Sonya Borrero, MD, MS |
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Holly Thomas, MD, MS |
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Patient Safety: | ||
Gregory Bump, MD |
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Michael Fine, MD, MSc |
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Walid Gellad, MD, MPH |
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Substance Use: | ||
Esa Davis, MD, MPH |
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Walid Gellad, MD, MPH |
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Kevin Kraemer, MD, MSc |
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Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH, MBA |
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Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA |
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Medical Education: | ||
D. Michael Elnicki, MD |
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Melissa McNeil, MD, MPH | ||
Carla Spagnoletti, MD, MS |
Geriatric Medicine
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Huai Cheng, MD, MPH, MS |
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Becky Clarkson, PhD |
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Daniel Forman, MD |
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Susan Greenspan, MD |
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Aditi Gurkar, PhD Lab website |
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Steven Handler, MD, PhD |
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Mary Kotlarczyk, PhD |
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Lena K. Makaroun, MD, MS |
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David Nace, MD, MPH |
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Neelesh Nadkarni, MD, PhD |
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Subashan Perera, PhD |
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Neil Resnick, MD |
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Eric G. Rodriguez, MD, MPH |
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Michelle Rossi, MD, MPH |
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Karen Scandrett, MD, MPH |
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Leslie Scheunemann, MD, MPH |
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Stasa D. Tadic, MD, MS |
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Shachi Tyagi, MD, MS |
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Debra Weiner, MD |
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Hematology/Oncology
PI | Key Words | Title(s) for Shovel-Ready Research Projects |
Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD |
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Diwakar Davar, MD |
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Leisha Emens, MD, PhD |
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Ellen Ormond, PhD |
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Warren Shlomchik, MD |
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Antoinette Wozniak, MD, FACP, FASCO |
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Solid Tumors: | ||
Tim Burns, MD, PhD |
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Lan Coffman, MD, PhD |
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John Kirkwood, MD |
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Immune Therapy: | ||
John Kirkwood, MD |
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Cancer Survivorship/Quality of Life: | ||
G van Londen, MD, MS |
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Hematology: | ||
Laura M. De Castro, MD |
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Enrico Novelli, MD, MS |
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Maggie Ragni MD, MPH |
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Infectious Diseases
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Transplant ID: | ||
Rima Abdel-Massih, MD |
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Tatiana Bogdanovich, MD, PhD, MSc |
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Ghady Haidar, MD |
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Eun Jeong Kwak, MD |
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General ID: | ||
Karin Byers, MD, MS |
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Carolyn Fernandes, MD |
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Neel Shah, MD |
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Kathleen Sheridan, DO |
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Giraldina Trevejo-Nunez, MD | ||
J. Alex Vieman, MD |
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Epidemiology: | ||
Lee Harrison, MD Lab website |
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Fungal Infections: | ||
Neil Clancy, MD Lab website |
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Minh-Hong Nguyen, MD Lab website |
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HIV: | ||
Malak Bokhari, MD, MPH |
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Ken Ho, MD, MPH |
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Beej Macatangay, MD Lab website |
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Deborah McMahon, MD |
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John Mellors, MD Lab website |
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Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, PhD Lab website |
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Antobiotic Resistance: | ||
Yohei Doi, MD Lab website | ||
Daria Van Tyne, PhD Lab website | ||
Medical Education/QI: | ||
Peter Veldkamp, MD, MS |
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Palliative Care
PI | Key Words | Title(s) for Shovel-Ready Research Projects |
Palliative Care: | ||
Bob Arnold, MD |
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Kong Chen, PhD (PACCM) |
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Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA |
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Yael Schenker, MD, MAS |
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Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
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COPD: | ||
Jessica Bon Field, MD, MS |
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Toru Nyunoya, MD |
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Divay Chandra, MD, MSc |
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Corrine R. Kliment, MD, PhD | ||
Asthma: | ||
Sally Wenzel, MD |
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Marc C. Gauthier, MD | ||
Acute Lung Injury: | ||
Janet Lee, MD |
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Nate Weathington, MD, PhD |
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Bill Chen, PhD Lab website |
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John Evankovich, MD | ||
Will Bain, MD | ||
Tobacco Use: | ||
Divay Chandra, MD, MSc |
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Bill Chen, PhD Lab website |
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Toru Nyunoya, MD |
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Lung Cancer: | ||
Bill Chen, PhD Lab website |
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David O. Wilson, MD, MPH | ||
Pulmonary Hypertension: | ||
Mark Gladwin, MD |
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Michael G. Risbano, MD, MA | ||
Belinda N Rivera-Lebron, MD, MSCE |
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Interstitial Lung Disease: | ||
Daniel Kass, MD |
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Jonathan Alder, PhD | ||
Pulmonary Infectious Disease/Microbiome: | ||
Alison Morris, MD, MS |
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Keven Robinson, MD |
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Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD |
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Critical Care: | ||
Bryan McVerry, MD |
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Leslie Scheunemann, MD, MPH |
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Faraaz Ali Shah, MD, MPH | ||
Ian J. Barbash, MD, MS |
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Sleep: | ||
Sanjay Patel MD, MS |
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Christopher O'Donnell, PhD |
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Cystic Fibrosis: | ||
Nate Weathington, MD, PhD |
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Michael Myerburg, MD | ||
Keven Robinson, MD |
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Medical Education: | ||
Jared Chiarchiaro, MD |
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Stephanie Maximous, MD | ||
Phil Lamberty, MD | ||
Megan Acho, MD | ||
Lung Transplant: | ||
Kong Chen, PhD (PACCM) |
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John F. McDyer, MD | ||
Matthew R. Morrell, MD | ||
Mark E. Snyder, MD |
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Renal-Electrolyte
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Basic Science: | ||
Gerard Apodaca, PhD |
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Cary Boyd-Shiwarski, MD, PhD |
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Marcelo Carattino, PhD |
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Rebecca P Hughey, PhD | ||
Ossama B. Kashlan, PhD | ||
Thomas Kleyman, MD |
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Evan Ray, MD, PhD |
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Arohan Subramanya, MD |
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Roderick Tan, MD, PhD Lab website |
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Ora Weisz, PhD |
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Clinical and Translational Research: | ||
Amar Bansal, MD FASN |
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Aravind Cherukuri, MBBS, PhD, MRCP | ||
Ranil DeSilva, MD | ||
Sundaram Hariharan, MD | ||
Manisha Jhamb, MD, MPH |
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Paul Palevsky, MD |
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Chethan Puttarajappa, MD |
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Helbert Rondon, MD, MS |
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David Rothstein, MD | ||
Steven Weisborg, MD, MSc |
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Jane Schell, MD | ||
Shujie Shi, PhD |
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Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
PI | Key Words | Title(s) for Shovel-Ready Research Projects |
Dana Ascherman, MD |
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Amr Sawalha, MD |
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Kathryn Torok, MD |
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Jeremy Tilstra, MD, PhD |
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Amanda C. Poholek, PhD |
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Scott W. Canna, MD |
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Abbe de Vallejo, PhD |
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Clinical Rheumatology: | ||
Rohit Aggarwal, MD, MS |
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Mehret Birru-Talabi, MD, PhD |
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Robyn Domsic, MD, MPH |
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Kim Liang, MD |
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Chet Oddis, MD |
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J. Steuart Richards, MBBS |
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Immunology: | ||
Partha Biswas, DVM, PhD |
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Patrizia Fuschiotti, PhD |
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Sarah Gaffen, PhD Lab website |
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Robert Lafyatis, MD |
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Mandy McGeachy, PhD Lab website |
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For additional information about the LEAD program, please contact:
Dr. Jessica Merlin
LEAD Program Director
Dr. Alison Morris
LEAD Program Associate Director
Dr. Jessica Bon
LEAD Associate Program Director for Research,
LEAD Executive Committee