Richard L Lubman, MD

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Areas of Treatment:

Specialties:

  • Critical Care
  • Pulmonary

Title:

  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Department:

Locations:

Background:

Dr. Lubman is an Associate Professor of both Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology and of Physiology and Biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. In 2004, Dr. Lubman had the opportunity to teach at Imperial College in London, UK as a Visiting Professor at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre. Along with his academic appointments, Dr. Lubman holds clinical positions as an attending physician at the Keck Hospital of USC, the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the LAC+USC Medical Center. Dr. Lubman has received grants for thirteen research studies and has given scientific and medical lectures all across the United States and Canada. An accomplished writer, Dr. Lubman has authored over 60 peer reviewed articles for medical journals and contributed to a number of book chapters and clinical presentations.

Education:

  • College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, B.S. (Major in Biology with Concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior), Ithaca, NY, September 1973 - June 1977
  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, M.D., September 1977 - June1981

Internships:

  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Internal Medicine), New York, NY, July 1981 - June 1982

Residencies:

  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Internal Medicine), New York, NY, July 1982 - June 1984
  • Brooklyn VA Medical Center (Internal Medicine), Chief Resident, Brooklyn, NY, July 1984 - June 1985

Fellowships:

  • New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (Pulmonary and Critical Care), New York, NY, July 1985 - June 1988

Board Certification:

  • National Board of Medical Examiners
  • Internal Medicine
  • Pulmonary Diseases
  • Critical Care Medicine

Professional Society Memberships:

  • American College of Chest Physicians, 1987 (Fellow, 1990)
  • American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, 1987 (Fellow, 1992)
  • American Thoracic Society, 1987
  • American Heart Association, Cardiopulmonary Council, 1990
  • International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 1994
  • American Physiological Society, 1995
  • Western Society for Clinical Investigation, 1999
  • USC Research Center for Liver Diseases (Affiliate Member), 2000
  • American Society for Matrix Biology, 2000

Awards:

  • Finalist, National Merit Scholarship Program, 1973
  • New York State Regents Scholarship Award, 1973 - 1977
  • New York State Cornell Regents Scholarship Award, 1973 - 1977
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Downstate Medical Center, 1978
  • J. Burns Amberson Fellowship, New York Lung Association, 1986 - 1988
  • Parker B. Francis Foundation Fellowship, 1988 - 1991
  • Wright Foundation Research Award, University of Southern California, 1992 - 1993
  • Initial Investigator, Greater Los Angeles Affiliate, American Heart Association, 1993 - 1995
  • Dr. Lubman was voted a Top Doctor by Pasadena Magazine in 2011.

Languages:

  • English