Faculty Research Interests:

Kristina Bailey, MD

• 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, MD, PhD

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

Tricia LeVan, PhD

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

Stephen Rennard, MD

• 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, MD

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

Derrick Samuelson, PhD

• Bacterial pneumonia
• host-pathogen interactions
• gut-lung axis
  Derrick Samuelson Lab

Joe Sisson, MD Division Chief

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

Tammy Wichman, MD

• Pulmonary hypertension

Todd Wyatt, PhD

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