Asthma specialist Jack Elias named a Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine

Jack A. Elias, M.D., newly named as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is a noted specialist in asthma and lung diseases and lung injury.

One focus of his research is the pathogenesis of asthma, and he has been widely #147ed in the national media on possible causes of the 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 co-editor of the two-volume textbook Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders and has written several chapters in medical textbooks and other publications.