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Dr. Kaner is Associate Attending Physician at the NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Kaner is the Principal Investigator of the Weill Cornell Medicine site of the National Institute of Health (NIH)-sponsored Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Clinical Research Network, one of 11 in the US and the only center in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the country. He is the project leader of an NIH-sponsored study of the molecular basis of accelerated emphysema development in HIV-1 positive smokers, which is part of a Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) directed by Dr. R. Crystal. He has served as principal investigator of NIH-sponsored basic research in mechanisms of vascular permeability in the lung and interactions of human alveolar macrophages with HIV-1. He has participated in multi-center research studies in severe sepsis and nosocomial pneumonia. Publications (selected)Stover DE and Kaner RJ. Pulmonary Toxicity in DeVita VT, Hellman S, Rosenberg SA, eds. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology. 9th edition. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011Kaner RJ. Pulmonary Complications of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. Pulmonary Up-To-Date Series on CD, 1996-2013.Kaner RJ.. Pulmonary Complications of Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation. Pulmonary Up-To-Date Series on CD, 1996-2013.A Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial of Warfarin in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Noth I, Anstrom KJ, Calvert SB, de Andrade J, Flaherty KR, Glazer C, Kaner RJ, Olman MA; The Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Clinical Research Network (IPFnet). Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2012 May 3. Prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine for pulmonary fibrosis. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Clinical Research Network, Raghu G, Anstrom KJ, King TE Jr, Lasky JA, Martinez FJ. (Kaner RJ, collaborating investigator) N Engl J Med. 2012 May 24;366(21):1968-77A Comparison of Seriously Ill Patients with or without AIDS Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation. J Dermot Frengley, M.D.; Giorgio R Sansone, Ph D; Kiranjit Uppal, M.P.H; John J Vecchione, M.D; Robert J Kaner, M.D J Crit Care. 2012 Dec;27(6):594-601 Mast Cells: A Pivotal Role in Pulmonary Fibrosis. Arul Veerappan, Nathan J. O'Connor, Jacqueline Brazin, Alicia C. Reid, Albert Jung, David McGee, Barbara Summers, Dascher Branch-Elliman, Brendon Stiles, Stefan Worgall, Robert J. Kaner and Randi B. Silver DNA AND CELL BIOLOGY Volume 32, Number 4, 2013 206-218 Effects of smoking on non-AIDS-related morbidity in HIV-infected patients. Shirley DK, Kaner RJ, Glesby MJ. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Jul;57(2):275-82.

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