SPEAKER: Bruce Levy, MD, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
TOPIC: “Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators and Severe Asthma”
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This lecture is part of the Winter Lung Series Conference schedule for 2018. The series is sponsored by the University of Arizona Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in conjunction with the UA Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.
About the speaker:
Dr. Levy is the Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Bruce received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Charles Serhan.
Research undertaken in the Levy laboratory focuses on the roles of endogenous counter-regulatory mediators in the lung. The lab’s mission is “to identify novel pathways and cellular targets that promote resolution of pulmonary inflammation, infection or injury and to determine roles for naturally-derived, specialized pro-resolving mediators in lung health and disease as well as their potential as templates for rational new drug design.
Dr. Levy’s clinical interests include severe asthma, cough, lung infection, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute respiratory distress syndrome. His laboratory aims to identify new pathways to resolve pulmonary inflammation, infection or injury through the roles of endogenous counter-regulatory mediators in the lung, and his work has helped lead to over 10 patents awarded or pending. He has written more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health continuously since 1993, and currently serves as a standing member of the LCMI study section and as a section editor of the Journal of Immunology and associate editor for the New England Journal of Medicine's clinical problem-solving interactive case series. He has been elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the Interurban Clinical Club. He has also been active in the American Thoracic Society and currently serves as Chair of the Publication Policy Committee and member of the Board of Directors.
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