Giovanni Piedimonte MD

Dr. Giovanni Piedimonte is currently the Steven and Nancy Calabrese Chair for Excellence in Pediatric Care, Research, and Education and Professor & Chair of Pediatrics of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He also serves as Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Pediatric Institute, Physician-in-Chief of the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, and President of the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Dr. Piedimonte has authored or co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, editorials, and abstracts with the primary focus on airway inflammation in childhood respiratory disease, the role of early viral respiratory infections in the pathogenesis of asthma, and the neurobiology of the developing respiratory tract.

He has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally on more than 400 occasions, and is the recipient of the 1997 Career Investigator Award of the American Lung Association, the 1999 Investigator Award of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, and the 2008 Pfizer Visiting Professorship in Pulmonology. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Piedimonte’s research has been funded by the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for more than 15 consecutive years and he has been principal investigator or co-investigator of more than 30 research projects funded by the NIH, the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the American Lung Association, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, and the pharmaceutical industry. He served as a regular member of the Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational (RIBT) Research Study Section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review. He also holds 18 U.S. and international patents protecting some of his discoveries.