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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

James E. Loyd is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine with a significant concentration in pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Loyd's work spans several subfields, notably pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, epidemiology, physiology, and public health with a focus on environmental and occupational health. Their research covers multiple important topics including interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, occupational and environmental lung diseases, pulmonary hypertension research and treatments, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, neonatal respiratory health research, medical imaging and pathology studies, as well as sarcoidosis and beryllium toxicity research.

Frequent collaborators in Loyd's research include:

  • Timothy S. Blackwell
  • Jonathan A. Kropski
  • Guixiao Ding
  • Margaret L. Salisbury
  • Cheryl Markin

Loyd's publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, with additional papers in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, PEDIATRICS, Science Advances, and CHEST Journal.

Notable recent papers by Loyd include:

  • "Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals profibrotic roles of distinct epithelial and mesenchymal lineages in pulmonary fibrosis," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Development and Progression of Radiologic Abnormalities in Individuals at Risk for Familial Interstitial Lung Disease," 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Pulsed, Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Subjects at Risk of Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With Pulmonary Fibrosis," 2020, CHEST Journal
  • "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Is Associated with Common Genetic Variants and Limited Rare Variants," 2023, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Defining the clinical validity of genes reported to cause pulmonary arterial hypertension," 2023, Genetics in Medicine

James E. Loyd holds the title of Member of the Association of American Physicians, a recognition reflecting their contributions to medical science.

Best Publications

  • An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

    William D. Travis;Ulrich Costabel;David M. Hansell;Talmadge E. King

  • Heterozygous germline mutations in BMPR2 , encoding a TGF-β receptor, cause familial primary pulmonary hypertension

    Kirk B. Lane;Rajiv D. Machado;Michael W. Pauciulo;Jennifer R. Thomson

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Histoplasmosis: 2007 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    L. Joseph Wheat;Alison G. Freifeld;Martin B. Kleiman;John W. Baddley;John W. Baddley

  • An Imbalance between the Excretion of Thromboxane and Prostacyclin Metabolites in Pulmonary Hypertension

    Brian W. Christman;Charles D. McPherson;John H. Newman;Gayle A. King

  • Telomerase Mutations in Families with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Mary Y. Armanios;Julian J.-L. Chen;Joy D. Cogan;Jonathan K. Alder

  • Diagnosis and Assessment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    David B. Badesch;Hunter C. Champion;Miguel Angel Gomez Sanchez;Marius M. Hoeper

  • Continuous intravenous epoprostenol for pulmonary hypertension due to the scleroderma spectrum of disease. A randomized, controlled trial.

    David B. Badesch;Victor F. Tapson;Michael D. McGoon;Bruce H. Brundage

  • Screening, Early Detection, and Diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

    Michael McGoon;David Gutterman;Virginia Steen;Robin Barst

  • Acute Exacerbations of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Harold R. Collard;Bethany B. Moore;Kevin R. Flaherty;Kevin K. Brown

  • A common MUC5B promoter polymorphism and pulmonary fibrosis

    Max A. Seibold;Anastasia L. Wise;Marcy C. Speer;Mark P. Steele

  • Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals profibrotic roles of distinct epithelial and mesenchymal lineages in pulmonary fibrosis

    Arun C. Habermann;Austin J. Gutierrez;Linh T. Bui;Stephanie L. Yahn

  • Genetics and genomics of pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Florent Soubrier;Wendy K. Chung;Rajiv Machado;Ekkehard Grünig

  • Clinical and molecular genetic features of pulmonary hypertension in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

    Richard Trembath;J R Thomson;Rajiv Machado;N Morgan

  • Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis.

    Tasha E. Fingerlin;Elissa Murphy;Weiming Zhang;Anna L. Peljto

  • Short telomeres are a risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    Jonathan K. Alder;Julian J.L. Chen;Lisa Lancaster;Sonye Danoff

  • Sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension is associated with germline mutations of the gene encoding BMPR-II, a receptor member of the TGF-beta family.

    Jennifer R Thomson;Rajiv D Machado;Michael W Pauciulo;Neil V Morgan

  • Heterozygosity for a surfactant protein C gene mutation associated with usual interstitial pneumonitis and cellular nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis in one kindred.

    Alan Q. Thomas;Kirk Lane;John Phillips;Melissa Prince

  • Primary pulmonary hypertension.

    James R Runo;James E Loyd

  • Pulmonary Vein Stenosis After Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

    I M Robbins;E V Colvin;T P Doyle;W E Kemp

  • BMPR2 Haploinsufficiency as the Inherited Molecular Mechanism for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

    Rajiv D Machado;Michael W. Pauciulo;Jennifer R. Thomson;Kirk B. Lane

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Phillips
John A. Phillips Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Joy D. Cogan
Joy D. Cogan Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John H. Newman
John H. Newman Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Timothy S. Blackwell
Timothy S. Blackwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David A. Schwartz
David A. Schwartz University of Colorado Denver
William Lawson
William Lawson Stony Brook University
Marvin I. Schwarz
Marvin I. Schwarz University of Colorado Denver
Kevin K. Brown
Kevin K. Brown National Jewish Health
Harold R. Collard
Harold R. Collard University of California, San Francisco
Lorraine B. Ware
Lorraine B. Ware Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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