Gianfranco Meduri MD

Gianfranco Umberto Meduri is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis. Dr. Meduri received his medical degree from the University of Padua (Italy) and completed his pulmonary and critical care training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Meduri first reported on the use of noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure (Chest 1989) and was instrumental to the widespread standardization and implementation of this technique. At the UTHSC, Dr. Meduri directed the Memphis Lung Research Program conducting translational research focused on pathogenetic mechanisms involved in the activation and regulation of systemic and pulmonary inflammation during the natural progression of ARDS and in response to prolonged low-to-moderate dose glucocorticoid treatment. Dr. Meduri conducted multiple trials investigating glucocorticoid treatment in ARDS and severe community-acquired pneumonia and recently completed a multicenter trial (ESCAPe, extended steroid treatment in severe community-acquired pneumonia) with the VA Cooperative Studies Program.