Jason Douglas Christie MD MS

Critical Care Medicine, Lung Transplantation Medicine, Pleural Disease

Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Summary

Jason D. Christie, M.D., M.S. is the Chief of the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, The Paul F. Harron Jr. Family Chair, and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. His career is focused on translational research studies of the risks, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes of acute lung injury in the transplant and non-transplant critically ill populations. Dr. Christie’s research integrates new knowledge generated from bench studies with epidemiology approaches in well-phenotyped, large human populations to generate new definitions of human syndromes, improved diagnostics and prognostics, and targeted therapy approaches in advanced lung diseases and acute organ dysfunction in critical illness. His leadership and research achievements have been recognized with membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1997 - 2000
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 1993 - 1996
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1993

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2011-2020
Philadelphia Magazine Castle Connolly, 2010-2020
Elected Aember Association of American Physicians, 2017
Elected Member The American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2012
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
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PubMed

Clinical and System-Level Factors Driving Donor Lung Utilization Decisions: A Qualitative Study.
Brittany Koons, James D Mendez, Michaela R Anderson, Edward Cantu, Matthew Hartwig
Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2025-03-24
Heart donation and transplant recipient survival outcomes from deceased organ donors managed in hospital-based vs independent donor care units.
Felicia Y Ho, Xingmei Wang, Douglas E Schaubel, Mauer Biscotti 3rd, Marisa Cevasco
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2025-03-03
Tolerability and Effectiveness of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Report.
Claire E Fishman, Ciara Walshe, Tamara Claridge, Stephanie Witek, Krishna Pandya
Transplantation Proceedings. 2025-03-01

Journal Articles

Bidirectional Transfer of Anelloviridae Lineages Between Graft and Host During Lung Transplantation
K M Olthoff, J D Christie, D J Lederer, R G Collman, J M Diamond, A Shaked, A R Haas, E Cantu, K Meyer, American journal of transplantation

When Colleges Reopened, How Many Covid-19 Cases Resulted? Here's What a New Study FoundSeptember 24th, 2020
Are College Reopenings Fueling Covid-19’S Spread?September 23rd, 2020
Penn Researcher-Led Study Aims to Improve Long-Term Outcomes of Lung TransplantsOctober 17th, 2019
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Cardiology and Pulmonary Clinical Research Training ProgramUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA1998–2028
Cardiology and Pulmonary Clinical Research Training ProgramUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA1998–2028
Lung Transplant Consortium - Data Coordinating CenterDUKE UNIVERSITY2022–2027
Lung Transplant Consortium - Data Coordinating CenterDUKE UNIVERSITY2022–2027
Long Term Follow up of the Lung Transplant Outcomes Group CohortUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA2019–2026
Role Of Anti-Col (V) Immunity In Primary Graft DysfunctionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2010–2011
Genetics Of Primary Graft DysfunctionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2007–2011
Clinical Risk Factors For Primary Graft DysfunctionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2007–2011
Risk Factors &Biomarkers Of Ox Stress In Graft FailureNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2000–2004