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Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jack Elias, newly named as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is a noted specialist on asthma and lung diseases and lung injury.
One focus of his research is the pathogenesis of asthma, and he has been widely quoted in the national media on possible causes for an increase in childhood asthma in the past 15 years.
Elias has been a professor of medicine and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the School of Medicine since 1990. He was the principal investigator of nearly 20 research projects funded by major grants. In 1997 he became director of the Yale-based Specialized Center of Research for Asthma, one of seven in the nation selected by the National Institutes of Health for a five-year study into the causes of the disease.
Elias writes and lectures widely on chest diseases, and he has been an invited speaker at many medical symposia, conferences and grand rounds. He is coeditor of the two-volume textbook "Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders" and has written several chapters in medical textbooks or other publications.
Elias earned his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and completed a residency at the Hospital of UPenn after serving as an intern and junior assistant resident at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He joined the faculty at the Hospital at UPenn as an assistant instructor in medicine in 1978 and worked there until his Yale appointment. He was acting chief of the Hospital at UPenn's Pulmonary Section from 1989 to 1990 and has directed its Sarcoidosis and Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic since 1982. From 1984 to 1986 he was director of outpatient medicine in the hospital's Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Division.
At Yale, Elias served as director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1991 to 1992. He is a member of the faculty of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center and serves on the scientific advisory committee of The John B. Pierce Laboratory.
The Yale physician has been recognized with numerous honors for his work. The American Lung Association named him a Career Investigator in 1988, and he has twice been the association's Edward Livingston Trudeau Scholar, as well as its Leonard Dalsemer Scholar. He was the Pfizer Visiting Professor in Allergic Diseases and Asthma at the University of Iowa in 1998.
Elias is a member of many professional and scientific societies, including the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Allergy, the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American Association of Immunologists.
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