Michael Matthay, MD
Michael A. Matthay, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia at the University of California at San Francisco and a Senior Associate at the Cardiovascular Research Institute. He is Director of the Critical Care Medicine Training in the Department of Medicine and Associate Director of the Intensive Care Unit. He received his AB from Harvard University in 1969 and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Matthay received clinical training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado from 1973-76 and in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine from the University of California at San Francisco from 1977-78. He also received research training from the Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory, University of Colorado in 1976 and the Cardiovascular Research Institute from 1978-79.
Michael Matthay was selected in 2006 by the UCSF Academic Senate as the recipient of the Sixth Annual Distinguished Clinical Research Lectureshi, by the American Physiological Society and the Respiration Section for the Julius Comroe Jr Award in 2009, and by the University of Paris in 20011 with an Honorary Degree (Honora Causa).
Dr. Matthay is currently the Principal Investigator of a NIH/NHLBI-sponsored phase 1/2 clinical trial of mesenchymal stem (stromal) cells for the treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (START). Details of the trial may be found at the following website: http://stemcellsards.ucsf.edu.