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Pulmonary Medicine

Lisa R. Young, MD

Title

Director, Pediatric Rare Lung Diseases Program, Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Appointment

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Email

lisa.young@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-6771

Fax

513-636-4615

Credentials

BA: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1993.
MD: Duke Univeristy School of Medicine, Durham, NC 1997.
Residency: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 2001.
Fellowship: Pediatric Pulmonology and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati 2005.
Certifications: Internal Medicine, 2001; Pediatrics, 2001; Pediatric Pulmonology, 2006; Adult Pulmonary Medicine (ABIM), 2006.

Awards and Honors

  • Best Doctors in America, 2008
  • Central Society for Clinical Research, Early Career Development Award, 2008
  • American Thoracic Society Carl Booberg Research Award, 2007
  • Procter Research Scholar, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 2005-2007
  • Member, Writing Group, American Thoracic Society Consensus Statement on the Approach to the Young Child with Interstitial Lung Disease, 2005-present
  • First place, Basic Science, University of Cincinnati, Department of Medicine, "Trainee Research Grand Rounds", 2005

Research Grants and Contracts

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Foundation Pilot Project Grant: 1/1/08 – 12/31/08; Utility of VEGF-D as a Biomarker in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Principal Investigator
.

American Thoracic Society Research Grant: 1/1/07-12/30/08; Alveolar Cell Dysfunction in Pulmonary Fibrosis; Principal Investigator
.

Parker B. Francis Foundation: 7/1/07-6/30/10;
Parker B. Francis Fellowship; Principal Investigator

NHLBI 1 K08 HL082757-01: 9/1/07 to 8/31/12; Alveolar Cell Dysfunction and Pulmonary Fibrosis; Principal Investigator

Publications, Most Recent

LR Young, Y Inoue, FX McCormack. Diagnostic Potential of Serum VEGF-D for Lymphangioleiomyomatosis.New England Journal of Medicine 2008;358:199-200.

JJ Bissler, FX McCormack, LR Young, JM Elwing, G Chuck, JM Leonard, VJ Schmithorst, T Laor, AS Brody, JA Bean, S Salisbury, DN Franz. Efficacy and Safety of Sirolimus for Angiomyolipomata in Patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. New England Journal of Medicine 2008;358:140-51.

LR Young, LM Nogee, B Barnett, RJ Panos, TV Colby, GH Deutsch. Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP) in an Adolescent with ABCA3 Mutations.Chest 2007;November:[accepted for publication].

GH Deutsch, LR Young*, RR Deterding, LL Fan, SD Dell, JA Bean, AS Brody, LM Nogee, BC Trapnell, C Langston and the Pathology Cooperative Group. Cross-sectional Evaluation of Diffuse Lung Disease in Young Children: Application of a Novel Clinical-Pathologic Classification Scheme.AJRCCM, published ahead of print on September 20, 2007 as doi:10.1164/rccm.200703-393OC.

HD Thomas, K Risma, TB Graham, AS Brody, LR Young, PM Joseph. A Kindred of Children with Interstitial Lung Disease.Chest 2007;132:221-30.

LR Young, R Pasula, PM Gulleman, GH Deutsch, FX McCormack. Susceptibility of Hermansky-Pudlak Mice to Bleomycin-Induced Type II Cell Apoptosis and Fibrosis.AJRCMB 2007;37:67-74.

AL Prestridge, JL Wooldridge, GH Deutsch, LR Young, SE Wert, JA Whitsett, L Nogee. Persistent Tachypnea and Hypoxia in a 3-month-old Term Infant (ABCA3).J Pediatr 2006;149:702-6.

K Almoosa, J Mendez, J Huggins, LR Young, M Coutinho, S Byrnes, E Sullivan, J Ryu, SP Bar-Ziv, J Maurer, FX McCormack, S Sahn. Pneumothorax in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis.Chest 2006;129:1274-81.

LR Young, K Almoosa, SP BarZiv, M Coutinho, FX McCormack, and S Sahn. Patient Perspectives on Pneumothorax and Management in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis.Chest 2006;129:1267-73.

LR Young, MT Borchers, R Gibbons, H Allen, FX McCormack. Lung Restricted Macrophage Activation in the Pearl Mouse Model of Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome.J Immunology 2006;176(7):4361-8.

MT Borchers, NL Harris, SC Wesselkamper, S Zhang, Y Chen, LR Young, GW Lau. The NKG2D Activating Receptor Mediates Pulmonary Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Infection and Immunity 2006;74(5):2578-86.

F Kong, LR Young, H Ran, M Meyers, Y Chen, P Joseph, DJ Hassett, GW Lau. Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Pyocyanin Inactivates Lung Epithelial V-ATPase Activity, Thereby Inhibiting Expression and Trafficking of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator.Cell Microbiology 2006;8(7):1121-33.

Book Chapters and Invited Reviews

LR Young, J Hagood. Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease is not the Same as Adult ILD. Invited review, ADVANCE for Respiratory Care, October 2006.

LR Young. Interstitial Fibrosis: Fifty Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics. J Pediatr 2006;148(5):646.

LR Young, FX McCormack. Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome. In: Respiratory Genetics. E. Silverman (ed.), Hodder Arnold Publishers (UK), 2005.

Professional Organization Memberships

Special Interests

  • Interstitial lung disease
  • Rare lung diseases
  • Rheumatologic lung disease
  • Adult pulmonary
  • Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)