Organizing Committee
Course Directors
Jessica Bon, MD, MS, ATSF
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Divay Chandra, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sally Wenzel, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Heath
Rachel Carson Chair in Environmental Health
Director, University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute@UPMC
Organizing Committee
Suzanne Cloonan, PhD
Professor in Respiratory Biochemistry
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Charles Dela Cruz, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Acute Lung Injury and Infection Center
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD, ATSF, FERS
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Associate Chief of Research
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Kathleen O. Lindell, PhD, RN, ATSF, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Medicine
Mary Swain Endowed Chair in Palliative Care Health
Medical University of South Carolina
Alison Morris, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine, Immunology, and Clinical & Translational Research
Division Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Director, Center for Medicine and the Microbiome
UPMC Chair in Translational Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Lauren Tomsic-Spiegel, MHS, PA-C
Staff Physician Assistant
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine