Dr. Steven Abman is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Heart Lung Center (PHLC) at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Trained in Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Abman has maintained strong translational research and clinical interests in neonatal lung injury, lung vascular development, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease in the newborn (bronchopulmonary dysplasia, BPD), and related topics. He has received uninterrupted NIH-funding for research and training grants throughout his academic career. Dr. Abman founded and was past Director the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet) and was one of the co-founders and is Vice Executive Chair of the international BPD Collaborative. He is currently a co-leader of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) Pediatric Task Force and the PVRI-IDDI Pediatric Workstream. He recently completed his tenure as President of the American Pediatric Society. His work has been recognized through several national awards as recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (1998), the E. Mead Johnson Award of the SPR (1999), the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society (2015), the Maureen Andrew Mentorship Award from the SPR (2015), the Mary Ellen Avery Award (2016) from the APS and SPR, and theArvo Yllpo Medal Award from the 5 medical schools in Finland, the Finish Foundation for Pediatric Research, the Finnish Pediatric Association and the Mannerheim League for Child WelfareFinland (2017). Dr. Abman has extensive experience as PI of NHLBI training programs for Academic Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Diseases (for 25 years) and currently for the NHLBI T32 program on Multicenter Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease.
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