Jesse Román, MD, FATS, FACCP, FACP, FSSCI

Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Director, Respiratory Medicine Enterprise, Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Jesse Roman received his M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1983. After training in Internal Medicine at the San Juan VA Medical Center in Puerto Rico, he joined the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In 1991, Dr. Roman joined the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He served as Chief of the Pulmonary Section at the Atlanta VA from 1994 to 2000, Associate Director of the Division from 1997 to 2001, and Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Emory University from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Dr. Roman was appointed Associate Vice President and Director of the newly created Emory Center for Respiratory Health within the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory.

Dr. Roman has written extensively in the area of ​​lung tissue remodeling and inflammation and the role of extracellular matrices in controlling cellular functions with over 120 original articles, book chapters, and review articles. His research has been continuously funded by federal organizations (NIH, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs).
Dr. Roman has served on important committees of local and international professional organizations, including Chair of the Program and Planning Committees of the American Thoracic Society’s RCMB Assembly. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, is a past president of the Georgia Thoracic Society, and past president of the Southern Clinical Research Society. Dr. Roman also serves on the Steering Committee of the NIH Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Clinical Research Network.