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

Overview

MeiLan K. Han is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant body of work in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Additional areas of specialization include Physiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology.

Their main research topics encompass Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Respiratory Support and Mechanisms, Asthma and respiratory diseases, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Respiratory and Cough-Related Research, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

MeiLan K. Han has contributed extensively to various publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, CHEST Journal, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases Journal of the COPD Foundation, UNC Libraries, and the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary, 2023, European Respiratory Journal
  • Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary, 2023, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Towards the elimination of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a Lancet Commission, 2022, The Lancet
  • Definition and Nomenclature of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Time for Its Revision, 2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Goals of COPD treatment: Focus on symptoms and exacerbations, 2020, Respiratory Medicine

Throughout their career, MeiLan K. Han has frequently collaborated with researchers such as Fernando J. Martínez, Nadia N. Hansel, Prescott G. Woodruff, Gerard J. Criner, and Eric A. Hoffman.

The scientist has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians, highlighting their professional affiliation within the medical community.

Best Publications

  • Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: the GOLD science committee report 2019.

    Dave Singh;Alvar Agusti;Antonio Anzueto;Peter J. Barnes

  • Azithromycin for Prevention of Exacerbations of COPD

    Richard K. Albert;Richard K. Albert;John Connett;William C. Bailey;Richard Casaburi

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes: the future of COPD.

    Mei Lan K. Han;Alvar Agusti;Peter M. Calverley;Bartolome R. Celli

  • Analysis of the Lung Microbiome in the “Healthy” Smoker and in COPD

    John R. Erb-Downward;Deborah L. Thompson;Meilan K. Han;Christine M. Freeman;Christine M. Freeman

  • Once-Daily Single-Inhaler Triple versus Dual Therapy in Patients with COPD

    David A. Lipson;Frank Barnhart;Noushin Brealey;Jean Brooks

  • Computed tomography-based biomarker provides unique signature for diagnosis of COPD phenotypes and disease progression

    Craig J Galbán;Meilan K Han;Jennifer L Boes;Komal A Chughtai

  • Clinical Significance of Symptoms in Smokers with Preserved Pulmonary Function

    Prescott G. Woodruff;R. Graham Barr;Eugene Bleecker;Stephanie A. Christenson

  • Genetic variants associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis susceptibility and mortality: a genome-wide association study

    Imre Noth;Yingze Zhang;Shwu Fan Ma;Carlos Flores

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations in the COPDGene Study: Associated Radiologic Phenotypes

    MeiLan K. Han;Ella A. Kazerooni;David A. Lynch;Lyrica X. Liu

  • Pulmonary arterial enlargement and acute exacerbations of COPD.

    J. Michael Wells;George R. Washko;Mei Lan K. Han;Naseer Abbas

  • Gender and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: why it matters.

    Mei Lan K. Han;Dirkje Postma;David M. Mannino;Nicholas D. Giardino

  • Clinical and Radiologic Disease in Smokers With Normal Spirometry

    Elizabeth A. Regan;David A. Lynch;Douglas Curran-Everett;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Jeffrey L. Curtis

  • Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcomes in COPD Study (SPIROMICS)

    David J Couper;Lisa M. LaVange;Mei Lan Han;R. Graham Barr

  • Lung microbiome and disease progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an analysis of the COMET study

    Mei Lan K. Han;Yueren Zhou;Susan Murray;Nabihah Tayob

  • Simvastatin for the Prevention of Exacerbations in Moderate-to-Severe COPD

    G. J. Criner;John E Connett;S. D. Aaron;R. K. Albert

  • Sex Differences in Severe Pulmonary Emphysema

    Fernando J. Martinez;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Frank Sciurba;Jeanette Alane Mumford

  • Airway Mucin Concentration as a Marker of Chronic Bronchitis.

    Mehmet Kesimer;Amina A. Ford;Agathe Ceppe;Giorgia Radicioni

  • The Chronic Bronchitic Phenotype of COPD: An Analysis of the COPDGene Study

    Victor Kim;Mei Lan K. Han;Gwendolyn B. Vance;Barry J. Make

  • Association between functional small airway disease and FEV1 decline in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Surya P. Bhatt;Xavier Soler;Xin Wang;Susan Murray

  • GOLD 2011 disease severity classification in COPDGene: a prospective cohort study.

    MeiLan K. Han;Hana Muellerova;Douglas Curran-Everett;Mark T. Dransfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando J. Martinez
Fernando J. Martinez University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mark T. Dransfield
Mark T. Dransfield University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jeffrey L. Curtis
Jeffrey L. Curtis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gerard J. Criner
Gerard J. Criner Temple University
Prescott G. Woodruff
Prescott G. Woodruff University of California, San Francisco
Russell P. Bowler
Russell P. Bowler Cleveland Clinic
Barry J. Make
Barry J. Make National Jewish Health
Eric A. Hoffman
Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa
R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr Columbia University
Nadia N. Hansel
Nadia N. Hansel Johns Hopkins University

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