About the contributor

• Jeffrey L. Curtis

Jeffrey L. Curtis

Jeff Curtis earned his M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and was a Medical Resident and Chief Medical Resident at the then Baltimore City Hospitals, now Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus. He entered research as a Clinical Immunology fellow at the National Institute of Aging in the laboratory of Dr Albert Nordin, then moved to the University of California San Francisco for fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Since 1990, Jeff has been Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Ann Arbor VAMC. He is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the University of Michigan Health System, and is Program Director of a VA Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) Center in Tobacco-Induced Lung Diseases. Jeff's laboratory studies innate and adaptive immunity in lung host defense against pathogens and the pathogenesis and treatment of COPD.