Vitamins, Nutrients, and Asthma: Is the Sum more Important than the Parts?

This past installment of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine grand rounds, on Friday 07-June-2024, focused on vitamins, nutrients, and asthma as described by Dr. Juan C. Celedón.

Dr. Celedón 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 this 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, while also obtaining 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, and Division Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His research goals are to identify genetic and environmental determinants of airway diseases, particularly in racial/ethnic minorities. Dr. Celedón leads NIH-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 “Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments”, the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations in Health Equity”, and the “John M. Peters Award” 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.