Reda Ebeid Girgis, MB, BCh
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland

Presentation Title
Future Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension:  Statins (Summary of Presentation)

Dr. Girgis is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  He is also Associate Medical Director, Lung Transplantation, and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  From 1996-2000, he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care Division, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Girgis received his MB, BCh in 1988 from the University of Cairo in Egypt.  From 1988-1991, Dr. Girgis was a Resident in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit followed by a three-year Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at this hospital.   From 1994-1996, Dr. Girgis was a Fellow in Heart/Lung and Lung Transplantation at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California.

Co-author of more than twenty-six peer-reviewed publications, seven peer-reviewed case reports, and six book chapters, Dr. Girgis is currently the Principal Investigator for two NIH and four pharmaceutical grants in the area of pulmonary arterial hypertension. He has served as a journal peer reviewer for eighteen journals.  Dr. Girgis currently serves as Chair of the Pulmonary Hypertension Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and sits on the Steering Committee of the Pulmonary Vascular Network of the American College of Chest Physicians. A conference Organizer/ Session Chair for five conferences on pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation, Dr. Girgis has been honored for his research and teaching and has been an invited speaker at nine National/International Meetings.