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
Division Chief of Allergy/Immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine
Henry Ford Health
Kathryn Blake, PharmD
Director, Center of Pharmacogenomics and Translational Research
Nemours Children's Health
Katherine N. Cahill, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Clinical Asthma Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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
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
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
Emily DiMango, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
New York Consortium: Columbia University
J. Michael (Mike) Wells, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Okan Elidemir, MD
Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology
Nemours Children’s Health
Laura Feemster, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pacific Northwest Airways
Lynn B. Gerald, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Population Health, Research Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois Chicago
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
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, MD
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)
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 Health
Floyd Livingston, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine
Nemours Children’s Health
Joi Lucas, MD
Medical Director of Pediatric Pulmonology
Nemours Children's Health
Barry J. Make, MD
Co-Director, COPD Program and Professor of Medicine
National Jewish Health
Nathaniel Marchetti, DO
Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery
Temple University Health System Lung Center