Lewis J. Rubin, MD
University of California
San Diego, California

Presentation Title
History of Developments in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Summary of Presentation)

Dr. Rubin is Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego.  From 1981-1984, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and from 1984-1985 an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas.  From 1985-1990, Dr. Rubin was an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Maryland, moving to full Professor in 1990.    From 1985-1999, Dr. Rubin was Head of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland.  In 1999, he became a Professor at the University of California.

Dr. Rubin earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York and completed a residency and fellowship (1975-1979) at Duke University Medical School.  From 1979-1980, he was an Associate in Medicine at Duke, at which point he joined the faculty at University of Texas Health Science Center.

Co-author of nearly two hundred peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Rubin currently holds NIH grants in the areas of pulmonary myocyte growth, cellular mechanisms of PPH, and SNPs in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.  He is also doing research for LungRx involving inhaled treprostinal for treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension.  He has received numerous honors and awards including being named an Honorary Fellow by the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom.