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Pulmonary vascular and critical care researchers

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Olivier Sitbon

Olivier Sitbon (born 1961) is a French professor of respiratory medicine at Hôpital Bicêtre known for clinical trials in pulmonary arterial hypertension, including the 2015 GRIPHON trial.

Paul T. Schumacker

Paul T. Schumacker, also known as Paul Schumacker, is a scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine known for the mitochondrial ROS hypothesis of oxygen sensing.

Richard M. Schwartzstein

Richard M. Schwartzstein is an American pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for his 1995 New England Journal of Medicine review of dyspnea.

Richard S. Irwin

Richard S. Irwin is an American pulmonologist and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the anatomic diagnostic protocol for chronic cough and describing cough-variant asthma in 1979.

Robyn J. Barst

Robyn J. Barst was an American pediatric cardiologist at Columbia University who pioneered drug treatment and registry-based research for pulmonary arterial hypertension in children, directing its center from 1987.

Rubin M. Tuder

Rubin M. Tuder, a Brazilian-trained physician-scientist, is Hart Family Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, known for the ceramide model of emphysema and pulmonary hypertension research.

Steven H. Abman

Steven H. Abman is an American pediatric pulmonologist and physician-scientist at the University of Colorado, known for inhaled nitric oxide therapy and bronchopulmonary dysplasia research.

Theodore Rodman

Theodore Rodman (1928–2016) was an American pulmonary physician and professor of medicine at Temple University whose research on respiratory failure and open-heart surgery appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Tim Higenbottam

Tim Higenbottam is a British respiratory physician-scientist who developed the first effective drug therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension, advanced lung transplantation at Papworth Hospital, and studied inhaled nitric oxide.

Victor F. Tapson

Victor F. Tapson is an American pulmonologist known for work on venous thromboembolism and pulmonary hypertension, and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Inari Medical since 2021.

Werner Seeger

Werner Seeger, born 1953 in Herford, Germany, is a German pulmonary physician-scientist at Giessen whose trials established inhaled vasodilator therapy for pulmonary hypertension and tested surfactant in ARDS.

William J. Janssen

William J. Janssen, also known as W.J. Janssen, is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist who leads critical care medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver.