I am a physician scientist and have been involded with the clinical care, basic and translational research as well as clinical trials in pulmonary fibrosis at a number of medical schools including Johns Hopkins, Yale, Duke, UCLA and currently the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I served in academic leadership roles at Duke and the UCLA-affiliated hospital Cedars-Sinai. In addition to be a member of the ASCI, I have been elected to the Interurban Clinical Club, Association of Americal Physicians where I am a Past-President and the National Academy of Medicine