Professional Bio
Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine. Her growing basic and translational research program centers on mechanisms of acute lung injury with an emphasis on inflammation during critical illness and after lung transplantation. In her research, she uses animal models of pneumonia and transplant-related ischemic injury, and uses ex vivo isolated and perfused human lungs for mechanistic testing. She is interested in the injurious effects of cell-free hemoglobin in the lung. Dr. Shaver also directs lung transplant research and enjoys career/peer mentorship for physician scientists.
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Education
PhD - Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis - Northwestern University, 2005
MD - Northwestern University, 2007
Internship - Vanderbilt University, 2008
Residency - Vanderbilt University, 2010
Residency - Chief - Veterans Administration Hospital, 2011
Fellowship - Pulmonary and Critical Care - Vanderbilt University, 2013
Fellowship - Lung Transplantation - Vanderbilt University, 2015
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307