James S. Hagood, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Program for Rare and Interstitial Lung Disease
About
Dr. Hagood is a physician scientist specializing in the field of Pediatric Pulmonology.
Dr. Hagood’s research specializes in rare lung diseases. His “Lung Repair Lab” studies the molecular regulation of fibroblast phenotypes in pulmonary fibrotic disease and lung alveolarization. He also studies the roles and regulation of Thy-1, a critical modulator of cellular phenotype, and epigenetic/epigenomic alterations in lung development and disease, as well as targeted therapy for diffuse lung diseases.
Dr. Hagood’s team is part of large collaborative efforts to create comprehensive cellular and molecular maps of the lung: the Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP), Human Cell Atlas (HCA), and is an external advisor to the LungMAP.
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Undergraduate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Medical School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Residency
Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Fellowship
Pediatric Pulmonology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine