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Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Heersink School of Medicine

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Faculty

  • Sridhar, Meenakshi, MD

    SridharAssistant Professor of Medicine

    Areas of Interest: Pulmonary Hypertension and Interstitial Lung Disease

  • Stephens, Crystal, PhD, CRNP, TTS

    Stephens, CrystalAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Public Housing and Health, Airway Inflammation, Population Health, Environmental and Lung Health

  • Stigler, W. Steve, MD

    FacultyPhotoStiglerProfessor of Medicine
    Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit   
    Assistant Chief Medical Officer. Medical Service Line

    Areas of Interest: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Sepsis, Mechanical Ventilation

  • Sun, Xingshen, PhD

    xingshen-sunAssociate Professor

    Areas of Interest: Transgenic ferret models, respiratory and pancreatic disease pathologies, stem cell development and regeneration, genetic manipulation, and translational therapies for cystic fibrosis and related disorders

  • Surolia, Ranu, PhD

    FacultyPhotoSuroliaAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Environmental and Translational Medicine, Lung Injury, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

  • Suzuki, Shingo, Ph.D.

    ShingoSuzukiAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Gene and Stem Cell Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis

  • Swords, W. Edward, PhD

    FacultyPhotoSwordsNewProfessor of Medicine
    Associate Director for Research

    Areas of Interest: Host and Microbial Determinants of Bacterial Colonization and Persistence during Opportunistic Airway Infections

  • Tang, Yinghua, PhD

    yinghua-tangAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Immunology of influenza viruses, vaccine development, rAAV-mediated gene therapy, immune modulation, ferret and mouse models, and bioinformatics-driven strategies to enhance therapeutic safety and efficacy

  • Thachuthara-George, Joseph, MD

    FacultyPhotoThachutharaGeorgeAssociate Professor
    Section Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine - Birmingham VA Medical Center
    Medical Director, UAB Lung Health Center

    Areas of Interest: Lung Cancer, Pleural Disease, Complex Airway Disease, Lung Transplant

  • Tlimat, Abdulhakim, M.D.

    FacultyPhotoAbouchalaInstructor

    Areas of Interest: Cinical Care Informatics, Physiological Waveform Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

  • Trevor, Jennifer, MD

    FacultyPhotoThachutharaGeorgeProfessor
    Associate Director - Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
    Site Director - Birmingham VA Medical Center

    Areas of Interest: Asthma

  • Ulijasz, Andrew, Ph.D.

    FacultyPhotoTrevorAssociate Professor

    Areas of Interest: Bacterial Pathogenicity

  • Vijaykumar, Kadambari, M.B.B.S.

    FacultyPhotoVijaykumarAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Muco-obstructive Lung Disorders including COPD and non-CF bronchiectasis, Role of Mucociliary Dysfunction in COVID-19, Airway Management

  • Wade, Chad, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Health Organization Management, Mechanisms of inflammation and disease progression in COPD and Pulmonary Hypertension, Prognostic implications of Imaging Biomarkers on Disease Progression in COPD and Pulmonary Hypertension

  • Wells, J. Michael, MD

    FacultyPhotoWellsNewAssociate Professor
    Section Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Birmingham VA Medical Center
    Medical Director, UAB Lung Health Center

    Areas of Interest: COPD, Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

  • Whitson, Micah R., MD

    FacultyPhotoWhitsonEditAssociate Professor

    Areas of Interest: Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine

  • Wille, Keith M., MD

    FacultyPhotoWilleUpdateProfessor of Medicine
    Medical Director, Adult ECMO Program
    Medical Director, Advanced Lung Diseases

    Areas of Interest: Lung Transplant, Pulmonary Embolism

  • Xing, Dongqi, PhD

    FacultyPhotoXingAssistant Professor

    Areas of Interest: Vascular Injury Response

  • Xu, Xin, MD, PhD, MLS

    FacultyPhotoXuUupdateAssociate Professor

    Areas of Interest: Inflammatory Diseases, Proteases and Matrikine Regulation in Airway Inflammatory Response and Autoimmune Disorder

  • Yan, Ziying, PhD

    ziying-yanProfessor

    Areas of Interest: rAAV airway transduction, CF gene therapy, CRISPR-based genome editing, CF ferret and pig models, airway-tropic viral vectors, and in vivo CFTR gene correction

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