Positions and Honors

Professional Experience

• 1986-1989 Parker B. Francis Fellow, Pulmonary Branch, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
• 1989-1990 Senior Staff Fellow, Pulmonary Branch, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
• 1988-1998 NHLBI Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Registry Steering Committee
• 1988-1998 Director, National Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Phenotyping Laboratory, Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
• 1990-1994 NICHD-IRB Committee Member, Bethesda, MD
• 1995-1998 Head, Unit on Genetic Disorders of Secreted Proteins, Human Genetics Branch, NICHD, Bethesda, MD
• 1995-1998 Senior Investigator and Head, Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine Branch, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
• 1996-2001 Board of Directors & Director of Research Alpha-1 Foundation, Coconut Grove, FL
• 1996-2002 Co-Chair, Alpha-1 Foundation Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee, Coconut Grove, FL
• 1998 – Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida College of Med, Gainesville, FL
• 1998 – Director, UF Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Genetics Laboratory, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
• 2000-2010 University of Florida GCRC Associate Director, Gainesville, FL
• 2006 – 2009 FDA Pulmonary Drug Advisory Committee Chair
• 2010 – 2017 Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
• 2016 – Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL

Honors

• 1999 – Alpha-1 Foundation Endowed Professor
• 2007 UF Faculty Achievement Award
• 2008 UF Faculty Research Prize in Clinical Science
• 2010  FDA Service Award
  

UF Alpha-1 Research Staff

Biological Scientist

Alek Aranyos

Clinical Nurse PRACTITIONER & Assistant Director of Research

Christina M Eagan, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC

Assistant Director

Tammy Flagg-Dowie

Laboratory TEchnician

Calvin Gould

Research Assistant Professor

Nazli Khodayari, PhD

Biological Scientist

Jungnam Lee, PhD

Biological Scientist

Yuanqing Lu

Laboratory Technician

Naweed Mohammad

Laboratory Manager

Regina Oshins

Clinical Research Coordinator

Michelle Owens, RN

Clinical Research Coordinator

Jesse West, RN, CCRC