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
David Au, MD
Professor of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Airways
Leonard Bacharier, M.D.
Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Monroe J Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Alan Baptist, MD, MPH
Director, UM Asthma Program at Dominos Farms
University of Michigan
Kathryn Blake, PharmD
Director, Center of Pharmacogenomics and Translational Research
Nemours Children's Specialty Care
Michael F. Busk, M.D., MPH
System Executive, St. Vincent Health, Wellness & Preventive Institute
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
Divay Chandra, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stephanie Christenson, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy & Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine at UCSF
Gerard J. Criner, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chair of Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine
Temple University Health System Lung Center
Dave Cury, MD
Associate Professor Department of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of Florida in Jacksonville
Emily DiMango, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
New York Consortium: Columbia University
Mark Dransfield, MD
Associate Professor
Children's of Alabama, Children's Health Research Unit/ University of Alabama at Birmingham
Laura Feemster, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Airways
MeiLan K. Han, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Committee, ACRC Principal Investigator, National Spokesperson
Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care at the University of Michigan
Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine Airways Clinical Research Center
Janet Holbrook, PhD
Data Coordinating Center, Johns Hopkins University
Charles G. Irvin, PhD
Director, Vermont Lung Center; Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Robert Kaner
Principal Investigator
New York Consortium: Weill Cornell Medicine
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)
Jerry A. Krishnan, MD, PhD
Site PI, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Consortium
Illinois Consortium: University of Illinois Breathe Chicago Center
Jason Lang, MD, MPH
Duke University School of Medicine
Stephen C. Lazarus, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
John Lima, PharmD
Principal Research Scientist Emeritus
Nemours Children's Specialty Care
Barry J. Make, MD
Co-Director, COPD Program and Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Health
James N. Moy, MD
Site PI, Rush University Medical Center, Illinois Consortium
Illinois Consortium: Rush University Medical Center
Edward Naureckas
Site PI, University of Chicago Site, Illinois Consortium
University of Chicago Asthma and COPD Center
Loretta Que, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center American Lung Association- Airways Clinical Research Center
Joan Reibman, MD
Professor Dept. of Medicine, Professor Dept. of Environmental Medicine, Director WTC Environmental Health Center, Asst. Division Director Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Director NYU/Belle
New York Consortium: New York University
Linda Rogers, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Mount Sinai National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute