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Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Surgery · 2023 - Present Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Surgery

In the News


Published February 22, 2024
Cystic fibrosis patient, 26, receives 3rd set of lungs after begging doc to take her case: ‘I was always told that two was it’
Published November 17, 2023
Paragonix Announces World’s First-In-Human Use of BAROguard™ Donor Lung Preservation System by Leading Academic Medical Center

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Recent Publications


The short end of the stick: Access to lung transplantation for short-statured patients in the composite allocation score era.

Journal Article Am J Transplant · May 12, 2025 Short-statured lung transplant candidates experience longer waitlist times than taller ones. The new composite allocation score (CAS) includes height to enhance allocation equity. We assessed the impact of CAS on waitlist outcomes for different height grou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identification and validation of a threshold for early posttransplant bronchoalveolar fluid hyaluronan that distinguishes lung recipients at risk for chronic lung allograft dysfunction.

Journal Article J Heart Lung Transplant · March 2025 BACKGROUND: Few tools exist for the early identification of patients at risk for chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). We previously showed hyaluronan (HA), a matrix molecule that regulates lung inflammation and fibrosis, accumulates in bronchoalveola ... Full text Link to item Cite

Donor and recipient factors associated with primary graft dysfunction following lung transplantation: A donor management goal registry analysis.

Conference J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · November 1, 2024 BACKGROUND: Current risk-adjusted models for predicting primary graft dysfunction (PGD) following lung transplantation (LTx) do not include bedside donor critical care data. Donor management goals (DMGs) represent predefined critical care endpoints aimed a ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Medical University of South Carolina · 2019 Ph.D.
University of Virginia, School of Medicine · 2013 M.D.
James Madison University · 2008 B.S.