We have an outstanding faculty with expertise in many areas of respiratory diseases.  We have outstanding clinical physicians for patient care with international reputation, we have master educators, and we have internationally known researchers.  Please browse through the curriculum vitae for any of our faculty to learn more about our training, publications, research expertise, and current activities.

• Ameredes, Bill T.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness in the diseases of asthma and COPD.
  
  
• Atanasov, Strahil T.
  
  Clinical Interest
  sleep disorders in adults and children
  
  
• Bonds, S. Rana
  
  Clinical Interest
  food allergy, drug allergy and desensitization, asthma, and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis
  
  
  
• Bulayeva, Nataliya
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  The mechanisms underlying the development of steroid resistance in asthma
  
  
  
• Calhoun, William J.
  
  Clinical Interest
  Asthma, particularly severe asthma Immunologic lung diseases
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  
  
  
• Cardenas, Victor J.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  Care of the critically ill patient with acute respiratory failure.
  
  
• De Groot, William J.
  
  Clinical Interest
  Pulmonary vascular and thromboembolic disease.
  
  
• Duarte, Alex G.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  airway innervation, cough and lung transplantation.
  Clinical Interest
  
  
  
• Grant, J. Andrew
  
  Clinical Interest
  mechanisms of allergic reactions, novel therapies for common allergic diseases:asthma, rhinitis, urticaria, anaphylaxis, use of telemedicine for management of allergic disorders
  
  
• Gupta, Meera R.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  Translational research in transplant immunology, particularly the mechanisms of graft tolerance and rejection
  
  
  
• Hazra, Tapas
  
  
  
• Johnston, Richard A.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  Impact of obesity on lung disease and pulmonary responses to air pollutants
  
  
• Lett-Brown, Michael A.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  
  
  
• Sharma, Gulshan
  
  Clinical Interest
  smoking cessation and health outcomes based research in critically ill patients
  
  
• Sur, Sanjiv
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  
  
  
• Valentine,Vincent G.
  
  Basic Science/Translational Research Interest
  lung transplantation and end stage lung diseases.