Dr. Amy Ahasic

Biography

Amy M. Ahasic, MD, MPH, is a member of the Pulmonary Critical Care faculty at Yale School of Medicine since 2010. She specializes in occupational lung disease, bronchiectasis, and general pulmonary diseases in her outpatient practice. In the inpatient setting, she focuses on adult critical care, acute lung injury, and sepsis. Dr. Ahasic is board-certified in occupational environmental medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. She holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University, where she majored in History of Science and Medicine, and obtained her MD from Yale School of Medicine. Her postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she also served as chief resident, and she completed her fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine through the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program, with training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham Women's Hospital, and Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research primarily focuses on obesity in critically ill patients and has secured funding from the American Heart Association to explore metabolic pathways related to acute lung injury. Dr. Ahasic is particularly interested in the relationship between obesity and ARDS, along with the cognitive outcomes associated with critical illness in older adults. She also leads the Yale MICU Biorepository project aiming to collect clinical data and biological specimens from critically ill patients.

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