Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Medicine
·
2023 - Present
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Combined heart-lung organ allocation: A glitch in the system.
Journal Article J Heart Lung Transplant · December 2025 Organ allocation guidelines prioritize patients at risk of waitlist mortality. In the United States, both the heart and lung allocation systems were revised within the last ten years. There is no specific allocation system for patients listed for combined ... Full text Link to item CiteDevelopment and validation of a bronchoalveolar lavage genomic classifier for acute cellular rejection.
Journal Article EBioMedicine · December 2025 BACKGROUND: Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is the main risk factor for chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), but diagnosis requires invasive transbronchial biopsy (TBB). We previously demonstrated the feasibility of bronchoalveolar lavage cell pellet ... Full text Link to item CiteTiming of quality of life and lung function changes during the first year following lung transplantation: A multicenter prospective cohort study.
Journal Article J Heart Lung Transplant · October 9, 2025 BACKGROUND: Lung transplantation (LT) has been shown to improve lung function and quality of life (QoL). We sought to clarify if QoL improvements coincide with improvements in spirometry assessments in the first post-transplant year. METHODS: In the multic ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Lung Transplant Clinical Trial Network (LT-CTN)
ResearchSite PI · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2028Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · 2020 - 2026ECP Management of BOS
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Washington University in St. Louis · 2018 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine ·
1995
M.D.