Andrea L. Harabin, PhD
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, DHHS
Bethesda, MD

Organizing Committee

Dr. Harabin is Program Director, Acute Lung Injury and Critical Care Medicine, in the Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI.  She received her PhD in physiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1977 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health from 1977 to 1980.  Dr. Harabin then joined the Naval Medical Research Institute as a staff scientist in Diving and Environmental Physiology and became head of that department in 1995.  In 1997, she came to the National Institutes of Health as Scientific Review Administrator and in 1999 joined the Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI.
 
Dr. Harabin’s most recent research has taken place within the framework of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials Network, established by NHLBI in 1994 to carry out multicenter clinical trials aimed at improving the care of patients with ARDS. Among the trials in which Dr. Harabin has participated are two comparative studies, one of pulmonary artery versus central venous catheter to guide treatment of acute lung injury and another of two fluid-management strategies in acute lung injury, both of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.  In addition, Dr. Harabin has contributed to numerous physiological studies of hyperbaric oxygen exposure and toxicity.