Juan Celedón, MD, DrPH, ATSF received his medical degree from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (Colombia). He served an Internship in Internal Medicine at Lincoln Hospital (New York Medical College, NY), a residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY) and a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at Brown University Hospitals (Providence, RI). Following his clinical training, Dr. Celedón completed a Research Fellowship in Respiratory Diseases at the Channing Laboratory of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received a doctoral degree in Genetic Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Celedón is the Niels K. Jerne Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Division Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. His research goals are to identify genetic and environmental determinants of asthma, particularly in racial/ethnic minorities. Dr. Celedón leads NHLBI-funded projects on the “omics” and epidemiology of asthma and has authored or co-authored over 400 publications.
Dr. Celedón’s work
as a physician-scientist and mentor has been recognized by multiple organizations
and institutions. He was the first faculty member to ever receive both the
Young Mentor Award and the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award
from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Celedón is an elected member of the American
Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians
and has received the “Inaugural Raif Geha Lectureship” from the American
Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the “Recognition Award for
Scientific Accomplishments” and the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations
in Health Equity” from the American Thoracic Society (ATS). In May 2020, Dr.
Celedón became the first Latino and the first faculty member from the
University of Pittsburgh to serve as ATS President since the society was
founded in 1905.