Research Profiles

Social and environmental factors and their impacts on advanced lung diseases and lung transplant.

My clinical and research interests are focused on development of ultrasound-based technologies in intensive care settings, shock physiology and advanced airway management.

Implementation and outcomes research for lung cancer screening.

Developing and evaluating programs and policies to improve care to patients with asthma and COPD.

Investigator in multicenter trials of: sepsis, shock, and acute respiratory failure (including ARDS).

Research activities: respiratory physiology, exercise physiology and obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Identifying poor prognosticators of ARDS by leveraging translational and clinical data.

Exercise Physiology research including cardiopulmonary exercise testing & pulmonary rehabilitation.

Prolonged mechanical ventilation, mechanical ventilator liberation, ARDS care and outcomes.

Interests are in Cystic Fibrosis and Bronchiectasis and PCD. 

Occupational lung diseases and health disparities among Latino/a immigrants.

Molecular basis of systemic iron metabolism and its disorders from biochemistry to animal models.

Integrative multiomics and basic/translational research in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Cost-effectiveness of telehealth services in sleep medicine.

The roles of iron and erythropoietic homeostasis and dysregulation in inflammatory lung diseases.

Targeted and immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer and mechanisms of immunosuppression.

Medical device innovation and regulation; entrepreneurship and venture capital in the life sciences.

Medical education, curriculum development, and assessment.

Endocrine regulation of iron metabolism, pathogenesis of iron disorders.

Improving Communication and EOL care in the ICU.

Practice variability in ARDS and long-term outcomes after critical illness.

1) Tumor immunotherapy, 2) Inhalation toxicology, 3) Scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease.

We study lung cancer immunopathogenesis and develop therapies to overcome resistance.

Understanding the utilization of glucose by cancer cells, the metabolic consequences of glucose transport inhibition and the regulation and dynamics of glucose transporter expression in cancer.

Research focuses on the intersection of signal transduction and metabolism in cancer in order to identify the molecular and metabolic basis of tumorigenesis

Development of novel methods to assess the immune system after lung transplantation.

Biomarkers for early detection and progression of non-small cell lung cancer.

Clinical trials, quality improvement in cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation, and LGBTQIA+ health.

Bioethics, complex communication, disaster medicine, unrepresented patients, ECMO.

Clinical/translational research within rare lung disease, focused on pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

Clinical and translational research in lung transplantation and interstitial lung disease.

Research on socioeconomic, environmental, and biological factors contributing to health disparities.