Biography

Nicola (Nick) A. Hanania, MD, MS, is professor of medicine in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and director of the Airways Clinical Research Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He also serves on the Faculty Senate at Baylor College of Medicine. He is Chief of Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Ben Taub Hospital. He completed his medical training at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He subsequently completed a fellowship in critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he later earned a master’s degree in clinical investigation. As a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Dr. Hanania has served on the Board of Regents and as Chair of the Clinical Pulmonary, Airways Networks and Council of Networks. He also served as member of the Board of Trustees of the Chest Foundation and has been a member on several guidelines and workshop panels including the ACP/ATS/ACCP/ERS Clinical Practice guidelines on COPD and the CTS/ACCP COPD exacerbations guidelines. Dr Hanania has received multiple awards, including the ACCP’s Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health, Baylor College of Medicine’s Master Clinician Award, Distinguished CHEST educator (DCE) 2017-2022, ACCP Humanitarian Award, Career Investigator Award (K23) from the National Institutes of Health, Fulbright and Jaworski’s Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation, the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Department of Medicine and attending of the year of the Section of PCCM at Baylor College of Medicine. He is editor-in-chief of Respiratory Medicine and is associate editor of the journals, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine (Asthma Section), and Lung. He serves on the editorial board of Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, COPD (J of COPD Foundation). Dr Hanania’s research interests focus on the pharmacology and management of asthma and COPD. His research has been funded by NIH, ALA and industry and focuses on clinical trials investigating novel treatments. He is principal investigator for the American Lung Association Airways Clinical Research Center and COPD Gene study at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as principal investigator or co-investigator in several clinical trials in asthma and COPD. He has published more than 320 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, editorials, and reviews on these topics. He has been invited and has lectured widely at local, regional, national, and international meetings.

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