Biography and Expertise

Keywords: Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD)

My research focus is on the development of Obliterative bronchiolitis a form of CLAD in the lung transplant patients. Currently my laboratory is investigating the role of epithelial stem cells in the development of this progressively fatal condition in lung transplant patients.

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Associations

American College of Chest Physicians
American College of Surgeons
Iowa Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Organizational Affiliations

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Anatomy and Cell Biology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Education

University of Mumbai, India
MBBS
Lung Transplantation
07/2003–06/2004, Washington University in St. Louis (United States, St Louis) - WUSTL
Cardiothoracic Surgery
07/2004–06/2006, University of Iowa (United States, Iowa City) - UI