Speakers and Moderators

Peter Adams, PhD

Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University

William Bain, MD

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

Ian Barbash, MD

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

Associate Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Jessica Bon, MD, MS

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

Juan Celedón, MD, DrPH

Niels K. Jerne Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Human Genetics
Division Director, Pulmonology
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Divay Chandra, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Electronic Cigarette Research Initiative
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Jason Christie, MD, MSCE

Paul F. Harron, Jr. Family Professor
Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Laura Crotty-Alexander, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine & Physiology
University of California, San Diego
Section Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care at the VA, San Diego

Charles S. 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

John Evankovich, MD

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

James Fabisiak, PhD

Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Director, Center of Healthy Environments and Communities, Environmental & Occupational Health
Vice-Chair of Practice, Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Reid Frazier

Energy Reporter
The Allegheny Front; State Impact Pennsylvania
90.5 FM WESA-Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station

Peng Gao, PhD

Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS

Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Director, Center for Health Equity
Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Office of the Dean
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Marc Gauthier, MD

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

Gillian Goobie, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Respiratory Medicine
The University of British Columbia

Nadia N. Hansel, MD, MPH

David Marine Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Associate Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins Bayview
Chair, Bayview Scientific Advisory Board
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Beth Hoffman, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Fernando Holguin, MD

Professor of Medicine-Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care
Director, Asthma Clinical and Research Programs
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Ilona Jaspers, PhD

Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Microbiology, and Immunology
Director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Coty Jen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Naftali Kaminski, MD

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
Section Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

Daniel J. Kass, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Director, Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD

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

Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Associate Program Director and Assistant Dean, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
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

Peggy Lai, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Bruce Levy, MD

Chair, Department of Medicine
Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Parker B. Francis Professor, Harvard Medical School

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH

Dean, School of Public Health
Jonas Salk Professor of Population Health
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh

Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Fellowship Director for Clinical Education, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency Subspecialty Education Coordinator for Pulmonary
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Meredith C. McCormack, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, BREATHE Center
Johns Hopkins University

Matt Mehalik, PhD

Executive Director, Breath Collaboration/Breathe Project
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies

Barbara Methé, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Co-director for Basic Science, Center for Microbiome and Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Gary W. Miller, PhD

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Vice Dean, Research Strategy and Innovation
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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

Erika von Mutius, MD

Director of the Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention
Head of the Department of Environmental Health
Institute of Allergy Research (IAF)
Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM)
Helmholtz Munich

Kari C. Nadeau, MD, PhD

John Rock Professor of Climate and Population Studies
Chair, Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

S. Mehdi Nouraie, MD, PhD

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

Sanjay R. Patel, MD, MS

Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, & Clinical and Translational Science
Director, Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research
Medical Director, UPMC Comprehensive Sleep Disorders Program
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Alexander Rabin, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Graham Sustainability Institute
University of Michigan and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs

Josiah Radder, MD, PhD

Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Irfan Rahman, PhD, ATSF

Dean’s Professor of Environmental Medicine, Medicine (Pulmonary), Public Health Sciences, and General Dentistry
Director: Flavor Inhalation Toxicology Research Center
Departments of Environmental Medicine, Medicine, Public Health Sciences, Dentistry
University of Rochester Medical Center

Mary Berlik Rice, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Institute for Lung Health
Director of Research
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Keven Robinson, MD

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

Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS

Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental and Occupational Health
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
Department of Epidemiology
Colorado School of Public Health

Mohamed I. Seedahmed, MD, MPH

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

Lokesh Sharma, PhD

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

Jaime Sidani, PhD, MPH, CHES

Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Mark E. Snyder, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Tomeka Suber, MD, PhD

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

Wan-Yee Tang, PhD

Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Eleanor Valenzi, MD

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

Rachel Wojcik, MD

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