Steven Kawut, MD, MS

Steven M. Kawut, MD MS, is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a tenured Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College and received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the Perelman School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also completed pulmonary fellowship.

His clinical and research interests focus on pulmonary vascular disease and lung transplantation. He has published >350 peer-reviewed papers on topics such as pulmonary arterial hypertension and right ventricular dysfunction. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for 25 years and is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He has served on several study sections for grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health, American Thoracic Society, foundations, and industry. He has served on the Data Safety and Monitoring Boards of federally-funded and industry-funded single and multicenter randomized clinical trials. He has mentored more than 60 individuals in clinical research.