Another member of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Lung Science and Health (CLSH) has received a major national award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS).
In May, John Marini, M.D., a professor of medicine in the University’s Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine division, received the ATS Distinguished Achievement Award, which recognizes those “who have made outstanding contributions to fighting respiratory disease through research, education, patient care and advocacy.”
That’s the third major ATS award received by a CLSH faculty member in the past four years.
Two years ago, Dennis Niewoehner, M.D., the center’s COPD program leader, received the ATS Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishment.
In 2007, ATS awarded Peter Bitterman, M.D., CLSH executive research director, the Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishment in recognition of his contributions to the prevention and treatment of lung disease.
“It is very rare to have this level of accomplishment at one University,” says the Center’s executive director, David Ingbar, M.D.
