Errol L. Bush, M.D., FACS, is a thoracic surgeon and surgical director of the Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program for the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. He also serves as director of the Ex vivo Lung Perfusion Program (EVLP). Dr. Bush specializes in the surgical treatment of chronic and end stage lung diseases, as well as benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) diseases and lesions of the chest. He is skilled in minimally invasive operations such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), a type of thoracic surgery performed using a small video camera that is introduced into the patient's chest via a scope to treat lung and esophageal cancers. Dr. Bush also has experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs can no longer serve their function. His research interests include investigations of outcomes and health disparities related to lung cancer, lung transplant and ECMO patients. Dr. Bush is currently leading several open clinical trials. Dr. Bush is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Fibrosing Mediastinitis, Lung Transplant, and Heart Transplant.

Dr. Merlo is an internist who specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Merlo also has clinical expertise in the care of patients with cystic fibrosis as well as clinical expertise in the care of patients with advanced lung disease who may require or have undergone lung transplantation. Dr. Merlo holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Merlo attended the College of the Holy Cross and completed medical school and residency training in internal medicine at Georgetown University. He completed both clinical and research fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins, and earned his M.P.H. at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests include outcomes in lung transplantation and cystic fibrosis, HIV-related pulmonary disease, and outcomes in Osler Weber Rendu. Dr. Merlo serves as the Associate Program Director of Scholarship for the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program. He has contributed numerous scientific papers and book chapters related to cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation, and his awards include the Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Dr. Merlo is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Cystic Fibrosis, Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID), Aspergillosis, Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Dr. Jonathan Orens is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is an internationally recognized expert in lung transplantation. Dr. Orens received his M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Michigan Hospitals. Dr. Orens joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1998. His research interests include clinical outcomes of lung transplantation, chronic allograft rejection and ischemic reperfusion injury. Dr. Orens is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Cystic Fibrosis, Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID), Newborn Jaundice, Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Alexander Krupnick is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Krupnick is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Pulmonary Fibrosis, Lung Transplant, and Gastrostomy.

Dr. Pali Dedhiya Shah is a pulmonary and critical care physician. She is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of advanced lung disease and lung transplantation. She is the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Lung Transplant program. She is a member of the International Society for Heart and Lung transplantation and provides teaching to medical students, residents and fellows at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Shah earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Shah joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 2011. Dr. Shah is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Interstitial Lung Disease, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Robert Reed is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Reed is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Emphysema, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Alfred Casillan is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Casillan is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Lung Transplant, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Michael Keller is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Keller is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Pneumonia, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Lung Metastases, and Lung Transplant.

Jinny Ha is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Ha is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Lung Nodules, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Lung Cancer, Lung Transplant, and Osteotomy.

Roy Brower is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and was Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital for over 30 years. He obtained his M.D. degree and completed his residency and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Brower’s earlier research explored mechanisms of cardiopulmonary interactions and pulmonary circulation physiology. He subsequently focused research efforts in the clinical venue. Brower has led four multicenter clinical trials of lung-protective mechanical ventilation strategies in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). One of these trials demonstrated substantially improved clinical outcomes in ARDS patients who received mechanical ventilation with lower tidal volumes. Brower was a member of the NIH ARDS Network from its inception in 1994. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Network from 2014 to 2023. Brower has been actively involved in the American Thoracic Society. He served on the Program Committee of the Pulmonary Circulation Assembly and chaired the ATS Critical Care Assembly Planning Committee for two years. He served as chair of the Critical Care Assembly from 2003-2005 and is the recipient of the Critical Care Lifetime Achievement Award. Brower chaired the ATS Publications Policy Committee from 2012 to 2016 and twice received the ATS Presidential Citation. Brower is an accomplished clinical educator. The Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program awarded him its annual award for outstanding teaching twice, in 1996 and in 2015. The Johns Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program awarded him its annual Fellows Teaching Award in 2009. As the former Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brower focused the energy of the critical care staff to develop rigorous, evidence-based protocols and practice guidelines. He promotes standardization of care with good protocols because they help to reduce medical errors, improve the clinical research environment, and serve as effective teaching tools. Dr. Brower is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Cerebral Hypoxia, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Lung Transplant, and Gastrostomy.

Daniel Brodie is an Intensive Care Medicine specialist and a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Brodie is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Respiratory Acidosis, COVID-19, Lung Transplant, and Embolectomy.

Dr. Natalie West is a pulmonary specialist in the Greater Baltimore area who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis. Her focus also includes the treatment of interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, COPD, asthma, and pulmonary hypertension. She also manages patients in the medical intensive care unit with acute respiratory failure caused by asthma, pneumonia, COPD, and the acute respiratory distress syndrome, as well as other conditions such as gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary embolism, diabetic ketoacidosis, and shock from sepsis, hypovolemia, and heart disease. Dr. West also serves as the associate program director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and plays an active role in recruitment of new fellows and mentoring fellows in the division. Dr. West is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Cystic Fibrosis, Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID), Newborn Jaundice, Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections, and Lung Transplant.

Aparna Balasubramanian is a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Balasubramanian is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Hypertension, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Emphysema, and Lung Transplant.

Paul M. Hassoun, M.D., is professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the director of the pulmonary hypertension program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Faculté de Médecine Lariboisière-Saint Louis at the University of Paris, France, completed an internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, both at Harvard Medical School. He was on faculty in the pulmonary division at New England Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine (Tufts-NEMC) in Boston, MA, until 2002 when he joined the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hassoun has served or currently serves on numerous American Thoracic Society (ATS) assemblies and committees, including the Pulmonary Circulation Long Range Planning Committee, the Pulmonary Circulation Program Committee (for which he served as chair for 2008-2009), the ATS Scientific Advisory Council, Pulmonary Circulation Leadership Committee, and the American College of Chest Physicians Vascular Steering Committee. He served as the ATS Pulmonary Circulation chair (2011-2012) and on the ATS Publications Policy Committee. He was recently elected president of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI; 2018-2019). Dr. Hassoun has held numerous editorial activities including serving on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine (2010 to present), CHEST (2006-2015) and the European Respiratory Review (2008-2015). He currently serves as associate editor of the European Respiratory Journal (2013-present) and has served as associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation (2017-2022). Dr. Hassoun is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Hypertension, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Lung Transplant.

Dr. Lechtzin is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He directs the Adult CF program and the neuromuscular pulmonary clinic at Johns Hopkins and is an expert in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, pulmonary complications of neuromuscular disease and the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. He is a member of the Longcope Firm Faculty and provides teaching to medical students and residents at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Lechtzin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Cystic Fibrosis, Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID), Newborn Jaundice, Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Daniel C. Brennan, M.D., joins the Johns Hopkins Division of Renal Medicine as professor of nephrology and medical director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center. Dr. Brennan’s areas of clinical expertise include transplant nephrology and renal disease. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Brennan was the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of renal Diseases at Washington University and the Director of Transplant Nephrology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell College and earned his medical degree at the University of Iowa, where he completed a residency in internal medicine. He then completed research and clinical nephrology fellowships at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brennan holds professional memberships at various organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the International Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology, The Transplantation Society, the American Society of Transplant Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Brennan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Kidney Transplant, and Pancreas Transplant.

Dr. Kolb is a specialist in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with special focus on pulmonary vascular disease and Critical Care Medicine. He is an expert in the diagnosis and management of all forms of chronic pulmonary hypertension, and has special interests in the chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, peri-operative and ICU management of pulmonary hypertension. He is an expert in the management of acute pulmonary embolism, leads the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Embolism Response Team, and provides longitudinal ambulatory follow-up for patients after acute pulmonary embolism. He has extensive experience in the diagnosis and management of all forms of acute respiratory failure and other life-threatening conditions such as shock, gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary embolism, diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar states, and acute kidney and liver failure. Dr. Kolb is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Hypertension, Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Lung Transplant.

Jennifer S. Lawton, M.D., is the Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery, as well as director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory. Dr. Lawton’s clinical area of focus is adult cardiac surgery. She also leads the division’s residency education program, and conduct research in myocyte volume regulation and ATP-sensitive K channels. She has held important leadership roles in several organizations, including chair of the surgery study section of the American Heart Association, vice-chair of the ACGME residency review committee, and president of the Women in Thoracic Surgery. Lawton’s achievements also include 81 peer-review publications, 7 book chapters, and 18 abstracts. She has delivered over 50 invited lectures. Dr. Lawton is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. Her top areas of expertise are Heart Tumor, Aortic Dissection, Atrial Myxoma, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Muhtadi Alnababteh is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Alnababteh is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are COVID-19, Cerebral Hypoxia, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Lung Transplant.

Ananth Charya is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Charya is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Lung Transplant. His top areas of expertise are Pneumonia, Interstitial Lung Disease, Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, and Lung Transplant.