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Boston, MA 02115Phone+1 617-732-5500- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Nirmal S Sharma is the Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College in India and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva in New York. He then finished a clinical and post-doctoral research fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with additional training in Lung Transplantation and Mechanical-Circulatory Support at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
After his fellowship, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and lung transplantation faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Thereafter, he was recruited to The University of South Florida/Tampa General Hospital Advanced Organ Institute and served as the Medical Director of the ECMO program prior to joining Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.
Dr. Sharma's clinical and research interests are in lung transplantation and extracorporeal life support technologies. His basic/translational research program is focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in transplantation rejection and development of novel therapeutics to treat and/or prevent rejection.
Education & Training
- University of Alabama Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2013 - 2016
- Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2011 - 2013
- Stanley Medical College SMCClass of 2008
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2019 - 2026
- FL State Medical License 2017 - 2021
- AL State Medical License 2013 - 2017
- OH State Medical License 2010 - 2011
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 80 citationsExosomal microRNA predicts and protects against severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely premature infantsCharitharth Vivek Lal, Nelida Olave, Colm P. Travers, Gabriel Rezonzew, Kalsang Dolma
JCI Insight. 2018-03-08 - 10 citationsUse of a novel pulmonary artery cannula to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantationEnrique Diaz-Guzman, Nirmal S. Sharma, Keith M. Wille, Charles W. Hoopes
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2016-08-01 - 36 citationsSpatial mapping of SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 Lung Injury Identifies Differential Transcriptional Signatures.Camilla Margaroli, Paul V. Benson, Nirmal S. Sharma, Matthew C. Madison, Sarah W Robison
Cell Reports. Medicine. 2021-03-23
Press Mentions
- A Machine Kept Our Patient Alive, but She Couldn’t Stay on Forever, Right?November 22nd, 2022
- By Altering the Blood Type of Lungs, Researchers Raise the Possibility of Universal Organs for TransplantsFebruary 16th, 2022
- They Survived Covid. Now They Need New LungsApril 29th, 2021
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Hospital Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
- Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
- Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
- Spaulding Hospital for Continuing Medical Care CambridgeCambridge, Massachusetts
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