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Christine Vigeland, MD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christine Vigeland<\/strong><\/a>, MD, found her calling during residency as the H1N1 pandemic was ending in 2010. She dedicated her career to researching acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and treating ICU patients. Ten years later, the knowledge she\u2019s gained and her continued commitment to the most critical patients are guiding her through another pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think people really understood how sick someone can get from something like the flu, until now,\u201d said Christine Vigeland, MD, instructor in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. \u201cEven my family. I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve really understood what I do and the type of patients I take care of until the past few months. I think there\u2019s a general realization of how sick people can get and how serious these diseases are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vigeland is a pulmonologist that takes care of some of the sickest patients in a hospital \u2013 those in the intensive care unit (ICU). These days those units are filled with COVID-19 patients struggling with the ravaging effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has been widely shown to cause acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the lungs. Vigeland spends a majority of her time researching how the body\u2019s metabolism changes when someone has ARDS, and how targeting different metabolic pathways may promote recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, I\u2019m mostly focused on analyzing data from experiments from earlier this year on how macrophage metabolism changes in response to different inflammatory stimuli,\u201d said Vigeland, a member of the\u00a0UNC Marsico Lung Institute<\/a>. Macrophages are immune cells that can destroy invading pathogens, such as bacteria or viruses.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also planning future experiments, some tied to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Read more in the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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