Expertise

Research Interest: Fungal Dignostics and lung transplant outcome studies.

Clinical Interest: Management of Lung transplant, transplant critical care, ECMO and fungal infections of the lungs particularly endemic mycoses (Histoplasmosis and Blastomycosis).  

Educational Interest: Use of immune suppressive therapies for organ transplant, fungal infections of the lung and fungal disgnostics.

His research and clinical activities are in the fields of fungal infections, lung transplant, ECMO, and transplant critical care.

Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
2005 - current

Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Centers and Institutes, University of Pittsburgh

Communities
Rheumatology/Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Degrees
MD, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, Medicine, 1997
Keywords
pulmonary diseases
Languages
Arabic, English, French
Associations
American College of Chest Physicians
American Thoracic Society
Infectious Diseases Society of America