Asthma Research Center

Elliot Israel, MD Director Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Dr. Elliot Israel graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Israel serves as the Director of Clinical Research in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Boston Magazine has named him one of Boston’s best pulmonary doctors. He has completed over 50 clinical studies on asthma.

Kathleen J. Haley, MD Dr. Kathleen Haley graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.  Currently Dr. Haley is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she attends in the Medical and Thoracic Intensive Care Units.  Additionally, she serves as the Medical Director for the BWH Ventilator Service at Spaulding Hospital Cambridge.  

Carrie Pistenmaa, MD received her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, and then completed her training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she attends on the Pulmonary Consult Service and sees patients in the Center for Chest Disease. Dr. Pistenmaa’s clinical research is in the area of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema.