Dr. Nici is the former Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Section at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Brown University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Columbia University in NYC and a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at Yale University. She joined the faculty at Brown University in 1991, intially as a basic scientist investigating the alveolar epithelium's response to injury. She transitioned to the Providence VAMC in 2004 where her focus has been on clinical work and clinical research in COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Dr. Nici is the founder and former Medical Director of the Providence VAMC Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program. Through this program, she has investigated multiple patient-centered outcomes in COPD patients including response of depression and anxiety to pulmonary rehabilitation, influence of BMI on program completion, the effects of self-management education of COPD readmissions rates, and the trajectory of activity levels in COPD patients following pulmonary rehabilitation. She has participated in VA multi-center trials, multi-center trials with the New England consortium of pulmonary rehabilitation programs, pharmaceutical company-sponsored trials, and site specific trials evaluating multiple aspects of the integrated care of the COPD patient. Dr. Nici has mentored several pulmonary/critical care fellows through their research year at the Providence VAMC.
Dr. Nici has served on the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association of RI; the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the American Thoracic Society, where she was the inaugural Chair of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly. She has played a prominent role within the ATS, serving on the Board of Directors and on multiple committees including the Research Advocacy Committee (Chair 2014- present), the Rhode Island Representative to the Council of Chapter Representatives (2009-present) and EC member and Chair (2011-2014), and a Presidential Appointee to the Planning and Evaluation Committee (2013-present). She was also a Trustee of the ATS Foundation, serving as the Vice Chair. until 2023 Dr. Nici has co-authored multiple societal statements, guidelines and competency papers in pulmonary rehabilitation in the last 20 years and has authored over 100 papers, reviews, commentaries, chapters, and books on this subject.
Dr. Nici continues to teach medical students, residents, and fellows at both at Brown Medical School as well as at the Providence VAMC and has been recognized for her teaching with both the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award and the Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Nici is a former Chair of the Clinical Faculty Advisory Committee (CFAC) at Brown University, a former an ex officio member of the Medical Faculty Executive Committee (MFEC) and currently sits on the Board of the Office of Women in Medicine.
| Lareau S, ZuWallack R, Nici L. "Increasing Quality and Quantity of Life in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Narrative Review with an Emphasis on Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Life, vol. 15, no. 5, 2025. |
| Moy ML, Bhatt SP, Casaburi R, Garvey C, Nici L. "Not All Tele-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Models for Chronic Respiratory Disease Are Created Equal." Chest, vol. 167, no. 5, 2025, pp. e169-e170. |
| Press VG, Nici L. "Improving Pulmonary Rehabilitation Participation: It's Time to Examine the System." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 21, no. 12, 2024, pp. 1655-1656. |
| Vaes AW, Burtin C, Casaburi R, Celli BR, Evans RA, Lareau SC, Nici L, Rochester CL, Troosters T. "Prevalence and prognostic importance of exercise limitation and physical inactivity in COPD." Breathe (Sheffield, England), vol. 20, no. 2, 2024, pp. 230179. |
| Nici L. "Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Mechanisms of Functional Loss and Benefits of Exercise." Respiratory care, vol. 69, no. 6, 2024, pp. 640-650. |
| Goldstein R, Jardim JR, Nici L, Raskin J, Spruit MA, ZuWallack R. "The importance of addressing physical activity and exercise intolerance in our patients with COPD." Breathe (Sheffield, England), vol. 20, no. 2, 2024, pp. 230272. |
| Tang CY, Bernstein B, Blackstock F, Blondeel A, Gershon A, Gimeno-Santos E, Gloeckl R, Marques A, Spruit MA, Garvey C, Morgan M, Nici L, Singh SJ, Troosters T. "Unravelling the complex interplay of factors behind exercise limitations and physical inactivity in COPD." Breathe (Sheffield, England), vol. 20, no. 2, 2024, pp. 230180. |
| Agusti A, Ambrosino N, Blackstock F, Bourbeau J, Casaburi R, Celli B, Crouch R, Negro RD, Dreher M, Garvey C, Gerardi D, Goldstein R, Hanania N, Holland AE, Kaur A, Lareau S, Lindenauer PK, Mannino D, Make B, Maltais F, Marciniuk JD, Meek P, Morgan M, Pepin JL, Reardon JZ, Rochester C, Singh S, Spruit MA, Steiner MC, Troosters T, Vitacca M, Clini E, Jardim J, Nici L, Raskin J, ZuWallack R. "COPD: Providing the right treatment for the right patient at the right time." Respiratory Medicine, vol. 207, 2023, pp. 107041. |
| Nici L. "Improving the lives of individuals with chronic respiratory disease: the need for innovation." Thorax, vol. 77, no. 7, 2022, pp. 636-637. |
| Heffner JL, Coggeshall S, Wheat CL, Krebs P, Feemster LC, Klein DE, Nici L, Johnson H, Zeliadt SB. "Receipt of Tobacco Treatment and One-Year Smoking Cessation Rates Following Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration." J GEN INTERN MED, vol. 37, no. 7, 2022, pp. 1704-1712. |
| Anne E Holland, Narelle S Cox, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Carolyn L Rochester, Chris Garvey, Richard ZuWallack, Linda Nici, Trina Limberg, Suzanne C Lareau, Barbara P Yawn, Mary Galwicki, Thierry Troosters, Michael Steiner, Richard Casaburi, Enrico Clini, Roger S Goldstein, Sally J Singh. "Defining Modern Pulmonary Rehabilitation. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report." annals of the american thoracic so, vol. 18, no. 5, 2021, pp. e12–e29. |
| Vayntrub Y, Gartman E, Nici L, Jankowich MD. "Diagnostic Performance of the Herder Model in Veterans Undergoing PET Scans for Pulmonary Nodule Evaluation." Lung, vol. 199, no. 6, 2021, pp. 653-657. |
| Nici L. "Pulmonary Rehabilitation after a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation: Impact on Readmission Risk in a Real-World Setting." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 204, no. 9, 2021, pp. 1005-1006. |
| Mammen MJ, Charbek E, Alexander PE, Nici L, Aaron SD. "Reply to Vozoris: Opioids for Dyspnea in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Short on the Details." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 203, no. 2, 2021, pp. 267-269. |
| Donner, Claudio F., ZuWallack, Richard, Nici, Linda. "The Role of Telemedicine in Extending and Enhancing Medical Management of the Patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." Medicina, vol. 57, no. 7, 2021, pp. 726. |
| Donner CF, ZuWallack R, Nici L. "The Role of Telemedicine in Extending and Enhancing Medical Management of the Patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), vol. 57, no. 7, 2021. |
| Mammen MJ, Pai V, Aaron SD, Nici L, Alhazzani W, Alexander PE. "Dual LABA/LAMA Therapy versus LABA or LAMA Monotherapy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Support of the American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 17, no. 9, 2020, pp. 1133-1143. |
| Nici L, Mammen MJ, Charbek E, Alexander PE, Au DH, Boyd CM, Criner GJ, Donaldson GC, Dreher M, Fan VS, Gershon AS, Han MK, Krishnan JA, Martinez FJ, Meek PM, Morgan M, Polkey MI, Puhan MA, Sadatsafavi M, Sin DD, Washko GR, Wedzicha JA, Aaron SD. "Pharmacologic Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 201, no. 9, 2020, pp. e56-e69. |
| Nici L, Aaron SD. "Reply to Mahler et al.: Pharmacotherapy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Molecules and Delivery Are Equally Important." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 202, no. 10, 2020, pp. 1482-1483. |
| Nici, Linda, Aaron, Shawn D. "Reply to Mahler et al.: Pharmacotherapy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Molecules and Delivery Are Equally Important." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 202, no. 10, 2020, pp. 1482-1483. |
| Wilson KC, Kaminsky DA, Michaud G, Sharma S, Nici L, Folz RJ, Barjaktarevic I, Bhakta NR, Cheng G, Chupp GL, Cole A, Dixon AE, Finigan JH, Graham B, Hallstrand TS, Haynes J, Hankinson J, MacIntyre N, Mandel J, McCarthy K, McCormack M, Patil SP, Rosenfeld M, Senitko M, Sethi S, Swenson ER, Stanojevic S, Teodorescu M, Weiner DJ, Wiener RS, Powell CA. "Restoring Pulmonary and Sleep Services as the COVID-19 Pandemic Lessens: From an Association of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division Directors and American Thoracic Society-coordinated Task Force." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2020. |
| Gartman EJ, Mulpuru SS, Mammen MJ, Alexander PE, Nici L, Aaron SD, Ruminjo JK, Thomson CC. "Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline on Pharmacologic Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020, pp. 11-16. |
| Mammen MJ, Lloyd DR, Kumar S, Ahmed AS, Pai V, Kunadharaju R, Gupta S, Nici L, Aaron SD, Alexander PE. "Triple Therapy versus Dual or Monotherapy with Long-Acting Bronchodilators for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 17, no. 10, 2020, pp. 1308-1318. |
| Nici, Linda. "Improving Uptake of Pulmonary Rehabilitation after a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 16, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1119-1121. |
| Nici L, Singh SJ, Holland AE, ZuWallack RL. "Opportunities and Challenges to Expanding Pulmonary Rehabilitation into the Home and Community." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019. |
| Nici, Linda, Singh, Sally J., Holland, Anne E., ZuWallack, Richard L. "Reply to Prieto-Centurion et al.: Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Require More Than Pulmonary Rehabilitation to Improve Outcomes." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 200, no. 12, 2019, pp. 1555-1556. |
| Blackstock FC, Lareau SC, Nici L, ZuWallack R, Bourbeau J, Buckley M, Durning SJ, Effing TW, Egbert E, Goldstein RS, Kelly W, Lee A, Meek PM, Singh S, American Thoracic Society, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canadian Thoracic Society, and British Thoracic Society. "Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Education in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. An Official American Thoracic Society/Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand/Canadian Thoracic Society/British Thoracic Society Workshop Report." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 15, no. 7, 2018, pp. 769-784. |
| Donner CF, Raskin J, ZuWallack R, Nici L, Ambrosino N, Balbi B, Blackstock F, Casaburi R, Dreher M, Effing T, Goldstein R, Krishnan J, Lareau SC, Make BJ, Maltais F, Meek P, Morgan M, Pépin JL, Rabbito C, Rochester CL, Silverman AR, Singh S, Spruit MA, Vitacca M, Williams L. "Incorporating telemedicine into the integrated care of the COPD patient a summary of an interdisciplinary workshop held in Stresa, Italy." Respiratory Medicine, vol. 143, 2018, pp. 91-102. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack R. "Integrated Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Rehabilitation." COPD, 2018, pp. 1-8. |
| Gartman E, Jankowich M, Baptiste J, Schiff A, Nici L. "Outcomes of the First Three Years of a Lung Cancer Screening Program at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2018. |
| Spruit MA, Singh SJ, Rochester CL, Greening NJ, Franssen FME, Pitta F, Troosters T, Nolan C, Vogiatzis I, Clini EM, Man WD, Burtin C, Goldstein RS, Vanfleteren LEGW, Kenn K, Nici L, Janssen DJA, Casaburi R, Shioya T, Garvey C, Carlin BW, ZuWallack RL, Steiner M, Wouters EFM, Puhan MA. "Pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD during and after an exacerbation-related hospitalisation: back to the future?." European Respiratory Journal, vol. 51, no. 1, 2018. |
| Hall, Chase, Nici, Linda, Sood, Shweta, ZuWallack, Richard, Castro, Mario. "Nonpharmacologic Therapy for Severe Persistent Asthma." The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, vol. 5, no. 4, 2017, pp. 928-935. |
| Macrea M, ZuWallack R, Nici L. "There's no place like home: Integrating pulmonary rehabilitation into the home setting." Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace, vol. 87, no. 2, 2017, pp. 859. |
| Effing TW, Vercoulen JH, Bourbeau J, Trappenburg J, Lenferink A, Cafarella P, Coultas D, Meek P, van der Valk P, Bischoff EW, Bucknall C, Dewan NA, Early F, Fan V, Frith P, Janssen DJ, Mitchell K, Morgan M, Nici L, Patel I, Walters H, Rice KL, Singh S, Zuwallack R, Benzo R, Goldstein R, Partridge MR, van der Palen J. "Definition of a COPD self-management intervention: International Expert Group consensus." European Respiratory Journal, vol. 48, no. 1, 2016, pp. 46-54. |
| Okereke, Ikenna C., Bates, Maria F., Jankowich, Matthew D., Rounds, Sharon I., Kimble, Brian A., Baptiste, Janelle V., Ng, Thomas T., Nici, Linda L. "Effects of Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening at One Veterans Affairs Medical Center." Chest, vol. 150, no. 5, 2016, pp. 1023-1029. |
| Blackstock FC, ZuWallack R, Nici L, Lareau SC. "Why Don't Our Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Listen to Us? The Enigma of Nonadherence." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 13, no. 3, 2016, pp. 317-23. |
| Rochester CL, Vogiatzis I, Holland AE, Lareau SC, Marciniuk DD, Puhan MA, Spruit MA, Masefield S, Casaburi R, Clini EM, Crouch R, Garcia-Aymerich J, Garvey C, Goldstein RS, Hill K, Morgan M, Nici L, Pitta F, Ries AL, Singh SJ, Troosters T, Wijkstra PJ, Yawn BP, ZuWallack RL. "An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Policy Statement: Enhancing Implementation, Use, and Delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 192, no. 11, 2015, pp. 1373-1386. |
| Rochester CL, Vogiatzis I, Holland AE, Lareau SC, Marciniuk DD, Puhan MA, Spruit MA, Masefield S, Casaburi R, Clini EM, Crouch R, Garcia-Aymerich J, Garvey C, Goldstein RS, Hill K, Morgan M, Nici L, Pitta F, Ries AL, Singh SJ, Troosters T, Wijkstra PJ, Yawn BP, ZuWallack RL, ATS/ERS Task Force on Policy in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. "An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Policy Statement: Enhancing Implementation, Use, and Delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 192, no. 11, 2015, pp. 1373-86. |
| Nici, Linda, ZuWallack, Richard. "Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease—Evolving Concepts in Treatment: Advances in Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 36, no. 04, 2015, pp. 567-574. |
| Spruit MA, Pitta F, McAuley E, ZuWallack RL, Nici L. "Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 192, no. 8, 2015, pp. 924-33. |
| Spruit MA, Pitta F, McAuley E, ZuWallack R, Nici L. "Pulmonary rehabilitation and physical activity in patients with COPD." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 192, no. 8, 2015, pp. 924-933. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack R. "Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with Chronic Airways Obstruction." The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, vol. 3, no. 4, 2015, pp. 512-8. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack R. "They can't bury you while you're still moving: A review of the European Respiratory Society statement on physical activity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej, vol. 125, no. 10, 2015, pp. 771-8. |
| Collins, Eileen G., Bauldoff, Gerene, Carlin, Brian, Crouch, Rebecca, Emery, Charles F., Garvey, Chris, Hilling, Lana, Limberg, Trina, ZuWallack, Richard, Nici, Linda. "Clinical Competency Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Professionals." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 34, no. 5, 2014, pp. 291-302. |
| Clark N, Fan VS, Slatore CG, Locke E, Whitson HE, Nici L, Thielke SM. "Dyspnea and pain frequently co-occur among Medicare managed care recipients." Annals of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 11, no. 6, 2014, pp. 890-7. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack RL. "Preface." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 35, no. 2, 2014, pp. xiii. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack RL. "Pulmonary rehabilitation: definition, concept, and history." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 35, no. 2, 2014, pp. 279-82. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack RL. "Pulmonary rehabilitation: future directions." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 35, no. 2, 2014, pp. 439-44. |
| Nici, L, Bontley T, ZuWallack R, Gross N. "Self Management in COPD: Time for a paradigm shift?." Ann Am Thorac Soc, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014, pp. 101-107. |
| Spruit MA, Singh SJ, Garvey C, ZuWallack R, Nici L, Rochester C, Hill K, Holland AE, Lareau SC, Man WD, Pitta F, Sewell L, Raskin J, Bourbeau J, Crouch R, Franssen FM, Casaburi R, Vercoulen JH, Vogiatzis I, Gosselink R, Clini EM, Effing TW, Maltais F, van der Palen J, Troosters T, Janssen DJ, Collins E, Garcia-Aymerich J, Brooks D, Fahy BF, Puhan MA, Hoogendoorn M, Garrod R, Schols AM, Carlin B, Benzo R, Meek P, Morgan M, Rutten-van Mölken MP, Ries AL, Make B, Goldstein RS, Dowson CA, Brozek JL, Donner CF, Wouters EF, ATS/ERS Task Force on Pulmonary Rehabilitation. "An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: key concepts and advances in pulmonary rehabilitation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 188, no. 8, 2013, pp. e13-64. |
| Nici L, Feit L. "Family trip to Eldoret: "shock and awe"." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 96, no. 9, 2013, pp. 29. |
| Holland AE, Nici L. "The return of the minimum clinically important difference for 6-minute-walk distance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 187, no. 4, 2013, pp. 335-6. |
| Nici L. "Adherence to a pulmonary rehabilitation program: start by understanding the patient." COPD, vol. 9, no. 5, 2012, pp. 445-6. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack R, American Thoracic Society Subcommittee on Integrated Care of the COPD Patient. "An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: the Integrated Care of The COPD Patient." Proc Am Thorac Soc, vol. 9, no. 1, 2012, pp. 9-18. |
| Zuwallack RL, Nici L. "Modifying the course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: looking beyond the FEV1." COPD, vol. 9, no. 6, 2012, pp. 637-48. |
| Reticker AL, Nici L, ZuWallack R. "Pulmonary rehabilitation and palliative care in COPD: Two sides of the same coin?." Chronic respiratory disease, vol. 9, no. 2, 2012, pp. 107-16. |
| Pirraglia PA, Casserly B, Velasco R, Borgia ML, Nici L. "Association of change in depression and anxiety symptoms with functional outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation patients." Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 71, no. 1, 2011, pp. 45-9. |
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"Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Targeting the Systemic Manifestations of COPD." Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Co-morbidities and Systemic Consequences, Springer Publisher, 2011.
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| Nici L, Zuwallack R. "Scope, background and definition of pulmonary rehabilitation." European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, vol. 47, no. 3, 2011, pp. 465-74. |
| Nici L. "A Bill of "Rights" for patients with COPD: the "right" therapy for the "right" patient at the "right" time." Thorax, vol. 65, no. 1, 2010, pp. 2-3. |
| Velasco R, Pirraglia PA, Casserly B, Nici L. "Influence of body mass index on changes in disease-specific quality of life of veterans completing pulmonary rehabilitation." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 30, no. 5, 2010, pp. 334-9. |
| Nici L, Lareau S, ZuWallack R. "Pulmonary rehabilitation in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." American family physician, vol. 82, no. 6, 2010, pp. 655-60. |
| Nici L, Raskin J, Rochester CL, Bourbeau JC, Carlin BW, Casaburi R, Celli BR, Cote C, Crouch RH, Diez-Morales LF, Donner CF, Fahy BF, Garvey C, Goldstein R, Lane-Reticker A, Lareau SC, Make B, Maltais F, McCormick J, Morgan MD, Ries A, Troosters T, ZuWallack R. "Pulmonary rehabilitation: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 29, no. 3, 2009, pp. 141-51. |
| Nici L. "The role of pulmonary rehabilitation in the lung cancer patient." Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 30, no. 6, 2009, pp. 670-4. |
| Nici L. "Preoperative and postoperative pulmonary rehabilitation in lung cancer patients." Thoracic surgery clinics, vol. 18, no. 1, 2008, pp. 39-43. |
| Decramer M, Nici L, Nardini S, Reardon J, Rochester CL, Sanguinetti CM, Troosters T. "Targeting the COPD exacerbation." Respiratory Medicine, vol. 102 Suppl 1, 2008, pp. S3-15. |
| Nici L. "The major limitation to exercise performance in COPD is inadequate energy supply to the respiratory and locomotor muscles vs. lower limb muscle dysfunction vs. dynamic hyperinflation. Difficulties in determining the primary physiological abnormality that limits exercise performance in COPD." Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 105, no. 2, 2008, pp. 760-1. |
| Sartore-Bianchi A, Gasparri F, Galvani A, Nici L, Darnowski JW, Barbone D, Fennell DA, Gaudino G, Porta C, Mutti L. "Bortezomib inhibits nuclear factor-kappaB dependent survival and has potent in vivo activity in mesothelioma." Clin Cancer Res , vol. 13, no. 19, 2007, pp. 5942-51. |
| Nici L. "Can we make it last? Maintaining benefits achieved with pulmonary rehabilitation." Lung, vol. 185, no. 5, 2007, pp. 241-242. |
| Nici L, Limberg T, Hilling L, Garvey C, Normandin EA, Reardon J, Carlin BW, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilatation. "Clinical Competency Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Professionals: American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Position Statement." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, vol. 27, no. 6, 2007, pp. 355-8. |
| Stone AC, Nici L. "Other systemic manifestations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 28, no. 3, 2007, pp. 553-7, vi. |
| Nici, L, Donner C, Wouters E, ZuWallack R, et al. "American Thoracic Society / European Respiratory Society Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 173, 2006, pp. 1390-1413. |
| Nici L, Donner C, Wouters E, Zuwallack R, Ambrosino N, Bourbeau J, Carone M, Celli B, Engelen M, Fahy B, Garvey C, Goldstein R, Gosselink R, Lareau S, MacIntyre N, Maltais F, Morgan M, O'Donnell D, Prefault C, Reardon J, Rochester C, Schols A, Singh S, Troosters T, ATS/ERS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Writing Committee. "American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement on pulmonary rehabilitation." Am J Respir Crit Care Med, vol. 173, no. 12, 2006, pp. 1390-413. |
| Nici L, ZuWallack R, Wouters E, Donner CF. "On pulmonary rehabilitation and the flight of the bumblebee: the ATS/ERS Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation." European Respiratory Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2006, pp. 461-2. |
| Reardon J, Casaburi R, Morgan M, Nici L, Rochester C. "Pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD." Respiratory Medicine, vol. 99 Suppl B, 2005, pp. S19-27. |
| Nici L, Monfils B, Calabresi P. "The effects of taurolidine, a novel antineoplastic agent, on human malignant mesothelioma." Clin Cancer Res , vol. 10, no. 22, 2004, pp. 7655-61. |
| Nici L. "Mechanisms and measures of exercise intolerance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Clinics in Chest Medicine, vol. 21, no. 4, 2000, pp. 693-704. |
| Nici L, Calabresi P. "Amifostine modulation of bleomycin-induced lung injury in rodents." Seminars in oncology, vol. 26, no. 2 Suppl 7, 1999, pp. 28-33. |
| Nici L, Santos-Moore A, Kuhn C, Calabresi P. "Modulation of bleomycin-induced pulmonary toxicity in the hamster by the antioxidant amifostine." Cancer, vol. 83, no. 9, 1998, pp. 2008-14. |
| Nici L, Medina M, Frackelton AR. "The epidermal growth factor receptor network in type 2 pneumocytes exposed to hyperoxia in vitro." The American journal of physiology, vol. 270, no. 2 Pt 1, 1996, pp. L242-50. |
| Ingbar DH, Hepler K, Dowin R, Jacobsen E, Dunitz JM, Nici L, Jamieson JD. "gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase is a polarized alveolar epithelial membrane protein." The American journal of physiology, vol. 269, no. 2 Pt 1, 1995, pp. L261-71. |
| Carter EP, Duvick SE, Wendt CH, Dunitz J, Nici L, Wangensteen OD, Ingbar DH. "Hyperoxia increases active alveolar Na+ resorption in vivo and type II cell Na,K-ATPase in vitro." Chest, vol. 105, no. 3 Suppl, 1994, pp. 75S-78S. |
| Nici L, Dowin R, Gilmore-Hebert M, Jamieson JD, Ingbar DH. "Response of rat type II pneumocyte Na,K-ATPase to hyperoxic injury." Chest, vol. 99, no. 3 Suppl, 1991, pp. 31S-33S. |
| Nici L, Dowin R, Gilmore-Hebert M, Jamieson JD, Ingbar DH. "Upregulation of rat lung Na-K-ATPase during hyperoxic injury." The American journal of physiology, vol. 261, no. 4 Pt 1, 1991, pp. L307-14. |
Dr. Nici's research interests are centered around patient-centered outcomes in COPD patients, primarily focusing on the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation, self-management education, and interventions to reduce admissions and readmissions in this patient population. Previous trials included (1) the trajectory of activity levels following pulmonary rehabilitation; (2) risk factors for all-cause readmissions in COPD patients within the VA system nationally; (3) the effects of a brief educational intervention to prevent readmissions in COPD patients admitted with an exacerbation in the Providence VAMC; (4) The use of CPET to determine cardiopulmonary fitness and risk for complications following cancer diagnosis at the Providence VAMC.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | MD | State University of New York |
| 1980 | BS | St. John's University |
| Instuctor in Medicine | Pulmonary/Critical Care Division | 1990-1991 | New Haven, CT, USA |
| fellow | Yale University, Pulmonary and Critical Care | 1987-1990 | |
| Resident | Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, internal medicine | 1985-1987 | |
| Intern | Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, internal medicine | 1984-1985 |
1981 Alpha Omega Alpha, Medical Honor Society
2009 Career Achievement Award- Quebec International Symposium on Cardiopulmonary Prevention and Rehabilitation
2009 Teaching Recognition Award- The Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2011 The Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award- The Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2019 The Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award- The Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2015 The Beckwith Family Excellence in Teaching Award - The Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2018 The Thomas L. Petty Distinguished Pulmonary Scholar Award- The American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
American Thoracic Society
American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
European Respiratory Society
American College of Chest Physicians
| American Board of Internal Medicine- Critcal Care | 1991-2016 | ||
| Rhode Island License # 8016 | 1991-2016 | ||
| American Board of Internal Medicine- Pulmonary | 1990-2016 | ||
| American Board of Internal Medicine | 1987-2016 |
| Professor Emeritus. Brown University, 2025- |
| Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator). Brown University, 2014-2024 |
| Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Section. 2011-2021 |
| Clinical Professor of Medicine. Brown University, 2009-2014 |
| Medical Director Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program. 2004-2021 |
| Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. Brown University, 2002-2009 |
| Assistant Professor of Medicine. Brown University, 1991-2002 |
