Rolf D. Hubmayr, M.D.

Location: Minnesota

Primary Appointment
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Joint Appointment
Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Administrative Appointment
Section Head, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Academic Rank
Professor of Physiology
Professor of Medicine

Summary

Thousands of patients with acute lung injury die each year from complications of mechanical ventilation. There is overwhelming experimental evidence that large lung deformations promote edema and may trigger inflammation. This evidence has generated an intense debate about the appropriate choice of ventilator settings for patients with injured lungs and has fueled research on the mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).

Research in my laboratory focuses on both mechanisms and biologic sequelae of lung deformation. We are addressing this problem using different experimental models that range in scale from whole animals to structural elements of individual cells.

Recent publications

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Education

Fellowship – Clinical Fellow in Thoracic Diseases
Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Fellowship – Postdoctoral Fellow in Pulmonary Physiology
Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Residency –
The Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA

Internship – Medical Internship
BKH Schwaz

Internship – Surgical Internship
BKH Schwaz

M.D. –
University of Innsbruck

Other – B.G. II Linz
Matura

Areas of Research
Lung deformation injury

Academic Affiliations
Biomedical Engineering Program

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