C. Terri Hough, MD MSc

Division Head, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Catherine L. “Terri” Hough grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and UCSF. She trained in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, returning west to train in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident at Harborview Medical Center. She remained at UW for 21 years, building a research program focused on understanding and improving outcomes during and after critical illness and injury. She moved to OHSU to become division chief in July 2020.

Jared Chiarchiaro, MD 

Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Jared Chiarchiaro received his internal medicine training at Duke University Hospital and his Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained on faculty for 6 years. He moved to OHSU in 2021. He focuses on how clinicians can improve their communication skills in caring for seriously ill patients and their families. He is an educator that teaches others serious illness communication skills and conducts research on how best to teach and implement those skills in our complex medical system. He is faculty for VitalTalk, a nonprofit that teaches serious illness communication to providers around the world. Clinically, he rounds on all services for the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and has a special interest in interstitial lung disease.

Gopal Allada, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Allada was born and raised in Michigan and attended the University of Michigan for his undergraduate and medical school education. From there, he completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1998, he began his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at OHSU. He has since become board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care, and sleep medicine. He currently serves as the general pulmonary clinic director, the adult cystic fibrosis director and the medical director of the OHSU Physician Assistant school. In addition, he participates in clinical research trials for promising cystic fibrosis therapies. He serves on the national Cystic Fibrosis center committee and is a board member of the Oregon Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 

Alan Barker, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Barker combines clinical research, patient care, and education during his study of rare lung diseases including alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, bronchiectasis, and lymphangioleiomyomatosis LAM). Each condition, although rare, yields insights to more common respiratory and systemic diseases. Previously medical director of Respiratory Care at OHSU, he is now on the national board of the Commission of Accreditation for Respiratory Care.  

Anna Brady, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Brady was born in Buffalo, NY and attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH for both her undergraduate and medical degrees. She completed residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and fellowship at the University of Washington. During fellowship she also participated in the University of Washington's Teaching Scholars Program. Dr. Brady's clinical interests include both pulmonary and critical care medicine. She is very interested in medical education, especially the evidence behind different methods of teaching and learning procedures.

Laura Chess, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Chess joined the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine in 2019 after completing her residency and critical care fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She completed her MPH at University of Michigan. Her academic interests include early resuscitation in critically ill patients, improving the transition of care from the emergency department to the intensive care unit, ECMO, and resident education. In her spare time, Dr. Chess enjoys hiking with her dogs, horse back riding, boxing, gastronomy and wine tasting. 

Matthew Drake, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Drake attended The University of Arizona for undergraduate and medical school before completing residency and fellowship at OHSU.  Dr. Drake’s clinical work includes attending on the Pulmonary service and the Medical ICU.  He is also involved in resident and fellow education with a particular emphasis on research training.  Dr. Drake’s own research focuses on interactions between inflammatory cells and airway nerves in asthma.  In particular, he studies how eosinophils, which are a common inflammatory cell found in asthmatic airways, alter nerve structure and function leading to excessive bronchoconstriction in asthma. 

Allison Fryer, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Fryer's research has shown that airway hyperreactivity, that is similar to asthma, is accompanied by recruitment of eosinophil inflammatory cells to airway nerves. These eosinophils are activated and release a preformed protein, eosinophil major basic protein, which binds to and blocks M2 muscarinic receptors on nerves. M2 blockade increases neurotransmitter release and increases bronchoconstriction, similar to asthma. Her lab is examining what mechanisms underlie recruitment and activation of eosinophils at the autonomic nerves in the lungs. They are also working to understand how exposure to viral infection, organophosphate pesticides, ozone, or allergens all induce loss of M2 receptor function in the nerves, and the role of eosinophils in the resulting airway hyperreactivity. 

Sherie Gause, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Gause was born and raised in Maryland and obtained both her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Maryland. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2013 and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in 2019. During fellowship she served as the Education Chief Fellow. Her academic and clinical interests include medical education, interstitial lung disease, and sarcoidosis. During her free time Dr. Gause enjoys traveling and exploring Portland’s rich restaurant scene.

Shewit P. Giovanni, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr.  Giovanni earned her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. During her clinical fellowship, she earned a Masters’ of Science in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Her clinical and research interests include the management of ARDS and sepsis. During her free time, Dr. Giovanni enjoys travelling, running, wine tasting and exploring new restaurants.  

Jeffrey Gold, MD

Professor of Medicine

After completing fellowship in 2001, Dr. Gold joined the faculty at NYU Medical Center as an assistant professor. During his time at NYU, Dr. Gold received funding from the National Institute of Health to better understand the immunologic mechanisms of sepsis and septic shock. In addition, in 2004, he was named director of critical care service for Bellevue Hospital. He joined the faculty of OHSU in 2005 and was promoted to associate professor in 2009. Clinically, he works in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, the pulmonary consultation service and is associate director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center.

Stephen Hall, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Hall interests include pulmonary surfactants and ARDS. He earned his medical degree in 1982 from OHSU, and received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Oregon. He completed his residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and his fellowship at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. Dr. Hall became board certified in internal medicine in 1985. 

Kinsley Hubel, MD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Hubel was born and raised in Oregon. She earned her medical degree from the National University of Ireland University College Dublin. She completed residency in internal medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii in 2017, where she also served as Chief Resident in 2018. Following her residency, she completed fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at University of California San Francisco – Fresno in 2021. During her fellowship she served as Chief Fellow with a focus on education and clinical research. Her academic and clinical interests include medical education, resuscitation of the critically ill, ARDS, sepsis, ECMO, COVID-19, quality improvement and clinical research

David B. Jacoby, MD

Chair, Department of Medicine
Edwards Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
Director, MD/PhD Training Program
Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Medicine
Director, OCTRI KL2 Program

Dr. Jacoby was born in New York, and is a graduate of Princeton University and New York Medical College. He was a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital and did his fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a member of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins for 13 years, where he was research director for the division. He moved to OHSU to become division chief in 2003.

Akram Khan, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Akram Khan received his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India in 1994. Following residency training in internal medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri in 2000, he did a critical care fellowship at Saint John's Mercy Medical Center (St. Louis University) in Saint Louis Missouri in 2001. He then worked as a director of emergency room and emergency room physician at Saint Alexius Hospital in Saint Louis. He joined a pulmonary fellowship at the University Of Oklahoma College Of Medicine in Oklahoma City in 2004. This was followed by a fellowship in sleep medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2006. 

Dr Peter Lee, MD MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr Lee grew up in New York City where he earned his undergraduate degree at New York University followed by a Master’s in Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. He earned his medical degree from St George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care at Mount Sinai-Beth Israel Medical center in NYC. He went on to complete an additional fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and stayed on faculty at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center and VCU School of Medicine for 6 years as director of the VA Interventional Pulmonology and Lung Cancer Screening programs. He joined the faculty at OHSU as Director of Interventional Pulmonology and the Lung Nodule Program in September of 2022.

He is skilled in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, robotic navigation bronchoscopy, therapeutic rigid and flexible bronchoscopy, central airway stenting, endobronchial tumor ablation, point of care ultrasonography, medical thoracoscopy, endobronchial valves for lung volume reduction, percutaneous tracheostomy, and management of pleural effusions. Research interests include the use of genomic classifiers to risk-stratify indeterminant pulmonary nodules, implementation of lung cancer screening, and gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

In his spare time Dr Lee enjoys surfing, running, cooking at home, and beach time with his wife and three kids.

Pat Lyons, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Lyons is an intensivist and physician-scientist with expertise in clinical research informatics and human-centered design and implementation of health information technology. He earned his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame and completed medical school, Internal Medicine Residency, and Chief Residency at the University of Chicago. He trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in his hometown of St. Louis. He subsequently joined the faculty at WashU, developing a portfolio in healthcare delivery science and establishing the Medical Director role in BJC HealthCare’s Innovation Lab. He moved to OHSU in late 2022.

Bart Moulton, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Moulton received his MD from the University of Washington in 2005. He went on to complete his residency in 2008 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and his fellowship in 2012 at OHSU. 

Zhenying (Jane) Nie, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Dr. Nie received her MD and PhD from Beijing Medical University, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. 

Stephanie Nonas, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Nonas received her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2000. She went on to complete her residency in 2003 at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and her fellowship in 2007 at Johns Hopkins University. The primary focus of her research is to understand the mechanisms of acute lung injury and ARDS, and in particular the role of mechanical stresses in causing or propagating lung injury.

Jonathan Pak, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Pak received his BA from Williams College, and his M.D. from Temple University in 2007. He completed his Residency and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.

Salil Rajayer

Dr. Rajayer received his medical degree from Manipal University, India in 2009. He completed an internship in Surgery at Harlem Hospital Center, New York, performed post-doctoral research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, and completed a residency in Medicine at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Brooklyn in 2016. After a stint as a hospitalist in Kennewick, WA, he completed his fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in 2021. Dr. Rajayer’s research interests include neuro-inflammation and delirium in the critically ill. 

Ran Ran, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Ran graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Ran's career interests include improving care to critically ill patients in the ED and ICU, teaching medicine from physiologic principles, and developing free open access medical education.

Jeff C. Robinson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Robinson was born and raised in Oregon and attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  Following his internal medicine training at the University of California – Davis, he completed his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at University of Colorado, where he joined faculty as assistant professor.  His academic interests include advancing the care of pulmonary hypertension through clinical trials.  Clinically, his main interests are the care of patients with pulmonary hypertension and autoimmune-related lung disease.  Additionally, Dr. Robinson attends in both the medical and cardiac intensive care units.

Virginia Satcher, ANP

Instructor

Virginia completed her MSN at the University of Portland in 1992. She currently sees patients in the Pulmonary Medicine adult clinic. 

Daniel Seifer, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Daniel Seifer grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, spent significant time in the USVI (St. Croix), and was fortunate enough to train at three different institutions across two coasts (UNC-Chapel Hill, UCSD, and OHSU). Daniel has particular interests in immunology, physiology, operational efficiency, the integration of technology into clinical practice, and in promoting & practicing a humanistic approach to medicine. Apart from work, he is involved in the community through coaching athletes, social activism, and generally learning as many new things as possible. 

Donald Sullivan, MD, MA, MCR

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Sullivan was born and raised in Boston and attended Tufts University for his undergraduate and Boston University for his graduate degrees. He has an interest in international medicine and has participated in medical trips to Africa as well as South America. Dr. Sullivan believes strongly in empowering his patients by providing them with the tools to lead active, healthy lifestyles. His clinical interests include pulmonary and critical care medicine. His is a health services physician-scientist with interest in lung cancer, decision making and palliative care research. Dr. Sullivan enjoys teaching future generations of physicians by helping to train residents and fellows. In his free time, he enjoys travel, hiking and biking. Don't miss any of Dr. Sullivan's publications.

Aaron Trimble, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Aaron Trimble grew up near Anchorage, Alaska before moving to Virginia for college. After finishing medical school and internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He developed a particular interest in cystic fibrosis during his clinical years, and completed a research fellowship at UNC studying mucociliary clearance and clinical research in CF. At OHSU, Aaron continues to have a particular interest in CF clinical care, quality improvement, and clinical research. Aaron enjoys cycling, cooking, and spending time with his wife and three young boys.

Bishoy Zakhary, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Zakhary is a graduate of UBC in Vancouver BC and Creighton Medical School in Omaha NE. After a brief stint as a radiology resident, he subsequently trained in internal medicine and pulmonary - critical care at NYU where he stayed on as an intensivist and medical director of the ECMO program. Currently, Bishoy serves as Chair of Education for ELSO. Career interests include respiratory failure, ECMO, and simulation.

Kathryn Artis, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Artis obtained her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. She came to OHSU in 2007 where she completed internal medicine residency, served as chief resident and hospitalist director, completed pulmonary critical care fellowship and joined as faculty in 2015. Her research interests include optimizing use of the electronic health record (EHR) during inter-professional rounds in the intensive care unit and delivery of care through telemedicine, such as home-based pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients.

Christopher Chang, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Chang earned his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Southern California. After initially working as a hospitalist, he pursued a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at OHSU followed by an interventional pulmonary fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His clinical interests include advanced and therapeutic bronchoscopy, lung cancer, pleural diseases, and critical care medicine.

Mark S. Chesnutt, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Chesnutt's clinical area of focus at OHSU is heredity hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and pulmonary arteriovenous fistula. He is director of the OHSU Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence within the Charles T. Dotter Department of Interventional Radiology. He received his MD from OHSU in 1986. He was a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCSF and its Cardiovascular Research Institute. Since 2005 he has served as Director, Critical Care for the VA Portland Health Care System

David B Coultas, MD, FACP

Associate Chief of Staff-Education

Dr. Coultas, MD received his medical degree from the University of Florida and completed training in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care at the University of New Mexico. He joined VA Portland Health Care System and OHSU in 2014, and he is currently Associate Chief of Staff for Education at VAPORHCS. His research has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of chronic respiratory diseases. His studies have included investigations of patients with interstitial lung diseases, environmental and occupational lung diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His most recent research has focused on providing self-management support for patients with COPD and alternative methods for delivering pulmonary rehabilitation. 

Mark Deffebach, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr Deffebach received his MD from OHSU in 1981. 

Melanie Harriff, PhD

Research Associate Professor

Dr. Harriff received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2007 from Oregon State University in the laboratories of Luiz Bermudez and Michael Kent. Following a year-long postdoctoral research position in the laboratory of Gary Thomas at the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health &Sciences University, Harriff worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at OHSU, in the laboratory of David Lewinsohn. She joined the Research Department at the Portland VA Medical Center as a Research Microbiologist in 2011.

William Holden, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Holden earned his medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1968. He completed both his residency training and fellowship at OHSU in 1974 and 1976, respectively. He is board certified in internal medicine (1974), pulmonary (1980), critical care (1987), advanced achievement in internal medicine (1987) and critical care (1997).

Elly Karamooz, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine 

Elly is a native of Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Reed College in 2004, with her senior thesis focused on the manganese transport regulator, MntR, from Bacillus subtilis. She received her MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2005 and completed residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care at OHSU. Elly was appointed to the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division’s T32 training grant during her fellowship, allowing her to pursue basic science research. She joined the Lewinsohn Lab in 2014 where she studied endosomal trafficking proteins and how they affect MR1-dependent presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Elly joined the faculty at OHSU in 2016 and in 2017, she won the Rising Star Award for the PI-TB Assembly (formerly MTPI) of the American Thoracic Society. She joined the Portland VA Health Care System in 2018 where she works as a Pulmonary & Critical Care physician. In 2020, Elly received an NIH R21 and then an NIH K08 to continue her research on MR1. Her clinical interests include non-CF bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections.

Suil Kim, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Kim received a BA and MS from the University of Chicago and an MD and PhD from the University of Michigan. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California San Francisco before joining Oregon Health & Science University. He studies signaling mechanisms that exaggerate innate immune responses in chronic airway diseases, cares for patients at the Portland VA Medical Center, and teaches pulmonary medicine to trainees. He is Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory at the Portland VA and VA Site Director for the OHSU Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program. Dr Kim's research and publications.

David Lewinsohn, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

After receiving his B.S. in biology from Haverford College, David Lewinsohn attended Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1989 he received his Ph.D. in cancer biology and received his M.D. the same year. Dr. Lewinsohn was a Fellow of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, from 1993-1996, and a senior fellow and acting instructor from 1996-1998. During 1996-1998 he was also an investigator at the Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle, WA.

Miranda Lim, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr. Miranda Lim is a physician-scientist in sleep medicine. She received a Bachelors degree from University of Southern California, a combined MD/PhD degree from Emory University in Atlanta in 2006, and completed a neurology residency at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2010, where she was Chief Resident. There, she studied the role of orexin and the sleep-wake cycle in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease in Dr. David Holtzman's laboratory (Kang, Lim et al., Science 2009). She continued fellowship training in Sleep Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the mechanisms underlying sleep disturbances in traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Lim et al., Science Translational Medicine 2013). Dr. Lim is currently a Staff Physician at the VA Portland Health Care System and Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Science University with joint appointments in the departments of Medicine, Neurology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. She is the recipient of a VA Career Development Award to perform translational sleep research in both mouse models and Veterans with TBI.

John G. Mastronarde, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Mastronarde was born in Youngstown OH and attended John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio for his undergraduate degree. He completed medical school and residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Columbus Children’s Hospital. He then completed pulmonary/critical care training at the University of Iowa and obtained sleep board certification via AASM and subsequently a master’s degree in clinical research at Indiana University.  Prior to moving to OHSU/VA he was at The Ohio State University for 12 years serving as Program Director for Pulm/CC fellowship and as Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Internal Medicine. His clinical activities are at the Portland VAMC.  He has a primary clinical interest in asthma having established an asthma clinic at the VA and he also sees patients in sleep clinics, general pulmonary clinics, on pulmonary inpatient consults and is part of the Portland VA’s comprehensive ALS clinic.

Christian Morales Perez, MD

Staff Physician

Dr. Perez received his MD from Temple University School of Medicine and completed his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Lakshmi Mudambi, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Mudambi was born in New Mexico and is a board-certified Interventional Pulmonologist. She is the Director of Interventional Pulmonology at the Portland VA Health Care System. She received her medical degree from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowship training in Interventional Pulmonology at University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical interests focus on the use of minimally invasive, advanced bronchoscopic and pleural procedures to reduce the impact of diagnosis and treatment of cancer-related thoracic pathology. Her current research interests include improving the quality and efficiency of staging and diagnosis of lung cancer in the VA.

Thomas Prendergast, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

Dr. Thomas Prendergast is a pulmonologist in and is affiliated with Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. 

Christopher Slatore, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Slatore is interested in the prevention, detection, treatment, and healthcare delivery for patients with tobacco-related lung diseases, chiefly lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). His research has focused on improving patient outcomes and identifying innovative approaches to treatment in these areas. He is currently investigating the influence of patient-clinician communication on patient-centered outcomes for patients with and at risk of having lung cancer. Through the application of comparative research methodologies, he hopes to improve healthcare quality for patients with tobacco-related lung diseases. Access all of Dr. Slatore's publications.

Andrea (Anne) Smeraglio, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Co-Appointed to the Division of Hospital Medicine & the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Smeraglio completed medical school at OHSU and received her internal medicine training at Stanford Hospital. She practices clinically as a hospitalist at the Portland Veterans Hospital. She has research interests in the cross-section of education and health system sciences. Specifically, how to engage trainees in using improvement science to provide better, more affordable, more equitable and safer care for our patients.  She serves as core faculty for Health Systems Science for the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and is working to expand the footprint of health systems education within the division through fellow & faculty development opportunities. In addition, she has been the Director for Health Systems Science for the internal medicine residency since 2020. In this role she oversees the longitudinal health systems science curriculum called TIS (Teaching Improvement Science) and the Health Systems Projects completed by all residents.  

Stephen M. Smith MB, BS, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Director of CCM Fellowship, OHSU
Director of Medical Critical Care, VAPORHCS

Dr. Smith completed his PhD studies and medical degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, London and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He completed postgraduate medical training in medicine and intensive care at Guy's Hospital, London and RPAH and RNSH, Sydney. Dr Smith's major research focus is on neuronal signaling and disease states. Current projects include the characterization of endogenous pathways that strongly modulate voltage-gated sodium channels, the identification of the mechanisms by which external calcium modulates excitability, and the determination of specialized mechanisms at the nerve terminal function. The laboratory is particularly interested in how these mechanisms are modified at times of acute brain injury. He continues this work in his laboratory in the Section of Research and Development, VAPORHCS. He is also interested in ICU-based research and is collaborating on a study to determine if food type affects tolerance and biome in the critically ill. A list of all Dr. Smith's publications.

Kelly C. Vranas, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Vranas was born in Eugene, OR, and is a graduate of Santa Clara University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, then went on to complete two years of fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University before finishing her fellowship at OHSU. Dr. Vranas' research focuses on mechanisms to improve the quality, efficiency, and value of critical care through innovations in the care delivery process. Specifically, Dr. Vranas is investigating the variability in ICU admitting patterns for low-risk patients within the VA healthcare system, with the goal of using this information to generate validated ICU admission standards applicable to patients with different needs and risk profiles. She is also interested in improving end-of-life care for critically ill patients through a better understanding of the association of documented care preferences with inpatient healthcare resource utilization and receipt of care consistent with patients' goal