Medicine Grand Rounds

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Monica Kraft, MD

Dr. Monica Kraft is an internationally renowned physician-scientist who specializes in clinical and translational research in airway disease who is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, as well as a Professor of Medicine and a Robert and Irene Flinn Endowed Chair in Medicine.  Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was a Professor of Medicine, and Chief, Division of the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, and Director of the Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. 
Dr. Kraft completed her MD degree at the University of California, San Francisco.  She completed her residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where she was also Chief Resident.  Dr. Kraft completed her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and joined the faculty as the Director of the Carl and Hazel Felt Laboratory for Adult Asthma Research and Medical Director of the Pulmonary Physiology Unit at National Jewish Health from 1995-2004.  She was then recruited to Duke University to create and direct the Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center in 2004.  In addition to patient care of patients with severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and teaching trainees, Dr. Kraft has published extensively in the area of adult asthma and COPD.  Specifically, her research interests include the mechanisms of innate immune dysfunction, inflammation and infection in asthma, as well as evaluation of personalized/precision approaches to asthma therapy through clinical trials.  Dr. Kraft’s work has appeared in such journals as The New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of American Medical Association, The Lancet and The Journal of Immunology.  Her H index is 73. Her work has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Lung Association for over 25 years and she is currently a member of the NHLBI Advisory Council. 
Dr. Kraft received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, awarded by President Clinton at the White House in 2000.  She has also been awarded a Distinguished Career Award and the Elizabeth Rich Award for mentorship from the American Thoracic Society (ATS), a major professional society for pulmonary, critical care and sleep providers where she also served as ATS President from 2012-13.  She also received the Arizona Bioresearcher of the Year in 2019.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians