Nicola A. Hanania MD, MS

Nicola (Nick) A. Hanania, MD, MS, is Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Airways Clinical Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He also serves on the Faculty Senate at Baylor College of Medicine. He is Chief of the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Ben Taub Hospital.

Dr. Hanania received his medical degree from University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. He then completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada. He subsequently completed a fellowship in critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he later earned a master’s degree in clinical investigation.

His research interests focus on the pharmacology and management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He has published more than 320 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, editorials, and reviews on these topics. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Lung Association, as well as industry, and focuses on clinical trials investigating novel treatments. He is principal investigator for the American Lung Association Airways Clinical Research Center and COPD Gene study at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as principal investigator or co-investigator in several clinical trials in asthma and COPD. Dr. Hanania has been invited to and has lectured widely at local, regional, national, and international meetings.

Dr. Hanania has received multiple awards, including the American College of Chest Physicians’ (ACCP’s) Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health, Baylor College of Medicine Master Clinician Award, ACCP Distinguished CHEST Educator, ACCP Humanitarian Award, Career Investigator Award (K23) from the NIH, Fulbright and Jaworski’s Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation, and the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He is editor-in-chief of Respiratory Medicine and is associate editor of the journal Lung. He also serves on the editorial boards of Chest and COPD (J of COPD Foundation).