Robert Aris, MD

Robert Aris, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program, the Lung Transplant Research Program and Inpatient Pulmonary Services. Dr. Aris has expertise in advanced lung diseases including cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, lung cancer, lung transplant, and asthma. He is also involved in critical care medicine managing patients with respiratory failure, shock, multiorgan failure, and sepsis. Dr. Aris' research interests include pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, basic immunology, clinical infectious diseases, post transplant malignancy and critical care. He has published over 75 articles and book chapters, chaired numerous symposia at national conferences, provides ad hoc peer review for over 25 journals (including all the major respiratory journals) and serves on the editorial board of numerous prestigious journals. (This is me - Update Profile)