Michael Matthay

Michael is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), a Senior Associate at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, and an Associate Director of Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. He received his AB from Harvard University and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania.  He completed his pulmonary and critical care medicine training at the University of California, San Francisco.  He received an American Thoracic Society award for Scientific Achievement in 2002, a UCSF Award for Outstanding Clinical Research in 2006, the Julius Comroe Jr Respiratory Section Award from the American Physiologic Society in 2009, and the UCSF Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in 2013, and the ATS Trudeau Award in 2016. He is a member of the American Association of Physicians. Michaels’s basic research has focused on mechanisms of salt, water, and protein transport across the alveolar epithelium that account for the resolution of pulmonary edema. He has studied the pathogenesis and resolution of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, with an emphasis on translational work and patient-based research, including clinical trials. His research has also focused on the biology and potential clinical use of allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for ARDS. He is PI for the California UCSF NHLBI Prevention and Treatment of Acute Lung Injury Trials network.