Principal Investigators
The American Lung Association Airways Clinical Research Centers (ACRC) Network attracts some of the best asthma and COPD investigators nationwide. Meet the ACRC Principal Investigators.-
Tarig Ali-Dinar, MD
Medical Director, Duke Children's Hospital Sleep Program
Medical Director, Duke Children's Hospital Pulmonary Function Laboratory
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David Au, MD
Professor of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Airways
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Leonard Bacharier, M.D.
Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Monroe J Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Alan Baptist, MD, MPH
Division Chief of Allergy/Immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine
Henry Ford Health
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Kathryn Blake, PharmD
Director, Center of Pharmacogenomics and Translational Research
Nemours Children's Health
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Katherine N. Cahill, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Clinical Asthma Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Mario Castro, M.D., MPH
Scientific Advisory Committee, ACRC Principal Investigator
Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research; Director, Rainbow Clinical and Translational Science Unit, Frontiers; University of Kansas School of Medicine
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Divay Chandra, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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Aaron S. Chidekel, MD
Division Chief of Pulmonology, Co-Medical Director of the Sleep Program, and Director of Cystic Fibrosis Program
Nemours Children's Health
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Stephanie Christenson, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy & Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine at UCSF
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Gerard J. Criner, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chair of Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine
Temple University Health System Lung Center
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Emily DiMango, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
New York Consortium: Columbia University
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J. Michael (Mike) Wells, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
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Okan Elidemir, MD
Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology
Nemours Children’s Health
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Laura Feemster, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Airways
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Lynn B. Gerald, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Population Health, Research Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois Chicago
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Stefano Guerra, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Medicine & Public Health, the Henry E. Dahlberg Endowed Chair in Pulmonary Medicine, and the Director of the Population Science Unit at the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center
University of Arizona
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MeiLan K. Han, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Committee, ACRC Principal Investigator, National Spokesperson
COPD, interstitial lung disease, lung transplant and women's respiratory health
Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care at the University of Michigan
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Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine Airways Clinical Research Center
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Janet Holbrook, PhD
Data Coordinating Center, Johns Hopkins University
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Charles G. Irvin, PhD
Director, Vermont Lung Center; Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
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Robert Kaner, MD
Principal Investigator
New York Consortium: Weill Cornell Medicine
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Ravi Kalhan, MD, MS
Professor in Medicine and Preventive Medicine; Director, Asthma and COPD Program; Associate Chief for Clinical and Translational Research (Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care)
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Jason Lang, MD, MPH
Duke University School of Medicine
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Stephen C. Lazarus, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
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John Lima, PharmD
Principal Research Scientist Emeritus
Nemours Children's Health
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Floyd Livingston, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine
Nemours Children’s Health
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Joi Lucas, MD
Medical Director of Pediatric Pulmonology
Nemours Children's Health
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Barry J. Make, MD
Co-Director, COPD Program and Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Health
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Nathaniel Marchetti, DO
Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University