Faculty Research Interests:

Kristina Bailey, M.D.

• Alcohol & innate immunity of the lung
• Effect of aging on pulmonary health
• The effect of cannabis use on pulmonary innate immunity
  Bailey Research Lab

John Dickinson, M.D., Ph.D.

• Adult cystic fibrosis
• Regulation of mucus secretion
• Asthma and COPD
• Lung transplant transition

Tricia LeVan, Ph.D.

• Genetic & pathogen influences on respiratory diseases
• Functional genomic studies involving gene regulation and single nucleotide polymorphisms
• Gene by environment association studies.

Jill Poole, M.D.

• Agriculturally-induced airway diseases
• Asthma
• Chronic urticaria
  Poole Research Lab

Stephen Rennard, M.D.

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
• Clinical therapeutic trials, and cellular mechanisms of
  disease
• Smoking cessation
• Airway cell biology
• Epithelial cell inflammatory cell interactions
• Airway repair, and mechanisms of peribronchiolar fibrosis
• Bronchoalveolar lavage
  Rennard Research Lab

Debra Romberger, M.D.

• Agriculture & Environmental Lung Disease
• Airway repair mechanism
• Clinical pulmonary problems including smoking cessation and pulmonary rehabilitation/airway disease including bronchiolitis obliterans
  Romberger Research Lab

Joe Sisson, M.D. Division Chief

• Regulation of Ciliary Motility
• Cilia Proteomics
• Mucociliary Clearance
• Alcohol Effects on Airways
  Sisson Research Lab

Tammy Wichman, M.D.

• Pulmonary hypertension

Todd Wyatt, Ph.D.

• Airway epithelial cell function under physiologic and disease conditions
  Wyatt Research Lab