James E. Loyd, MD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee

Presentation Title
Genetics of Pulmonary Hypertension: Role in Pathogenesis and Future Directions of Therapy

Dr. Loyd is currently the Rudy W. Jacobson Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. He joined the faculty there in 1983, moving from Assistant Professor in 1983 to Associate Professor in 1990 to full Professor in 1997.

Dr. Loyd earned his BS in biology in 1969 and his medical degree in 1973 from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.  He then interned for a year in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  Dr. Loyd then served two years as Lieutenant in the United States Navy Medical Corps, followed by two years as Resident in Internal Medicine and then Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  He then served a year as Chief Resident in the Department of Medicine before another year as Research Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  From 1981-1983, Dr. Loyd was an American Heart Association - British Heart Foundation Research Fellow at Oxford University.

Co-author of more than one hundred publications, Dr. Loyd currently holds NIH grants in the areas of genetic and environmental pathogenesis of PPH, is a principal investigator in the IPF net, and participates in the collaborative gene search for IPF in families.  He has completed two other NIH grants involving the familial pulmonary hypertension gene and pulmonary hypertension-mechanisms and family registry.  In addition, he has participated in multicenter randomized treatment trials for PPH, IPF, and lung transplant patients.