Professor of Medicine

Overview

 Dr. Klinger completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brown University after completing his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Rhode Island Hospital. He is a NIH-funded basic science investigator with interests in natriuretic peptides-cGMP signalling pathways in pulmonary hypertensive, right ventricular hypertrophy, and pulmonary endothelial barrier function.  More recent areas of research include the role of bone marrow progenitor cells, extracellular vesicles and transcription factors in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension. His clinical research is focused on the use of investigational agents to treat adult patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.  Dr. Klinger is a former chair of the program committee of the pulmonary circulation assembly of the American Thoracic Society and former chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease network of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is the editor of 2 textbooks on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and currently serves on the steering committees of several clinical trials and educational programs.  He is a former member of the Scientific Liason Committe of the Pulmonary Hypertensoin Assocation, co-chair of the American College of Chest Physicians Guildelines Committee for Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension, and member of the Pathobiology Task Force for the 2018 World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension. He is also Faculty of the American Thoracic Society and Associate Editor of the journal "Lung". 

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