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Vivek N. Ahya, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Division
832 West Gates Building
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
tel.: (215) 349-5824
fax: (215) 662-3226
email: ahyav@uphs.upenn.edu

Education:

  • MD: Boston University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Ahya is the Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program. His clinical interests also include the management of lung disease associated with solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He is the primary investigator of several clinical trials investigating the roles of different immunosuppressive agents for the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic lung rejection. In addition he has collaborative research projects with the other solid organ transplant programs and the Histocompatibility laboratory to better understand the mechanisms of primary graft failure and graft rejection.

Representative Publications:

Ahya VN, Douglas LP, Andreadis C, Arnoldi S, Svoboda J, Kotloff RM, Hadjiliadis D, Sager JS, Woo YJ, Pochettino A, Schuster SJ, Stadtmauer EA, Tsai DE. Association between elevated whole blood Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded RNA EBV polymerase chain reaction and reduced incidence of acute lung allograft rejection. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 26(8):839-44., 2007

Sager JS, Ahya VN. Surgical therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Clinics in Chest Medicine. 28(1):187-202, 2007.

Sager JS, Kotloff RM, Ahya VN, Hadjiliadis D, Simcox R, Blumenthal NP, Mendez J, Bilker WB, Pochettino A, Christie JD. American Journal of Transplantation. 6(9):2191-201, 2006.

Ahya VN, Kawut SM. Noninfectious pulmonary complications after lung transplantation. Clinics in Chest Medicine, 26(4):613-22, 2005.

Christie JD, Kotloff RM, Ahya VN, Tino G, Pochettino A, Gaughan C, DeMissie E, Kimmel SE. The effect of primary graft dysfunction on survival after lung transplantation, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 171(11):1312-6, 2005

Kotloff R, Ahya VN, Crawford S. State of the Art: Pulmonary Complications of Solid Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 170(1):22-48, 2004.

Ahya VN, Kotloff R. Medical Complications of Lung Transplantation. European Respiratory Journal.,23(2):334-42, 2004.

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