VU’s Ware elected to American Society of Clinical Investigation
Lorraine Ware, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, has been elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies.
Lorraine Ware, M.D.
Ware will be formally inducted with 67 other nominees April 27 during the joint annual meeting of the ASCI and Association of American Physicians in Chicago.
She joins 42 other current Vanderbilt faculty members who were elected to the ASCI for “outstanding records of scholarly achievement in biomedical research” early in their careers.
“I am honored to receive this recognition,” Ware said. “I want to acknowledge my mentors, trainees, laboratory personnel and collaborators, both at Vanderbilt and elsewhere, for their major contributions to my research program.”
Ware earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. She met her husband, Reid Thompson, M.D., chair of Neurological Surgery, when they were both residents at Hopkins. After completing fellowships on the West Coast, they joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2002.
Ware’s research in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine focuses on acute lung injury. She has applied a comprehensive translational approach to investigating lung epithelial injury as both a marker and a driver of lung inflammation and intra-alveolar fibrin deposition in acute lung injury.
Her clinical studies integrated with her bench research have led to important insights into the role of lung epithelial injury in both the pathogenesis and response to therapeutic clinical interventions in acute lung injury.
Ware also directs the Vanderbilt Medical Scholars Program, a one-year, in-depth research experience available to Vanderbilt medical students.