StevenAbmanMD

Summary

• Dr. Steven Abman is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Heart Lung Center (PHLC) at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Having completed fellowship training in Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Abman has maintained strong translational research and clinical interests in neonatal lung injury, lung vascular development, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease in the newborn (bronchopulmonary dysplasia, BPD), pulmonary hypertension, and related topics. He has received uninterrupted NIH-funding for research and training grants throughout his academic career. Dr. Abman founded and was past Director the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet) and was one of the co-founders and is Executive Vice-Chair of the international BPD Collaborative. He is currently a co-leader of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) Pediatric Task Force. He recently completed his tenure as President of the American Pediatric Society (APS). His work has been recognized through several national awards as recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (1998), the E. Mead Johnson Award of the SPR (1999), the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society (ATS; 2015), the Maureen Andrew Mentorship Award from the SPR (2015), the Mary Ellen Avery Award (2016) from the APS and SPR, and the Arvo Yllpo Medal Award from Finland (2017). Dr. Abman has extensive mentorship experience as co-PI leading the NHLBI T32 Multicenter Training Program in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease and NHLBI R38 StARR Resident Research Training Program at the University of Colorado. He currently holds NHLBI grants for laboratory and clinical research, as well as for a multicenter randomized trial for pediatric pulmonary hypertension.