Dr. Klinger currently serves as associate professor in medicine at Brown University and is the medical director of the Respiratory Intermediate Care Unit and the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, RI.
His basic science interests include the natriuretic peptides, one of the peptides that causes natriuresis, the excretion of an excessively large amount of sodium in the urine. He also studies cGMP (cyclic guanosine monophosphate) signaling pathway and its role in modulating pulmonary hypertensive and right ventricular hypertrophic responses and pulmonary endothelial barrier function. His clinical research is focused on patients with pulmonary hypertension, and the treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism, a blockage of an artery in the lungs.
Dr. Klinger received a B.A. in medical science from University of Wisconsin and a medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed residency training in internal medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and he completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine.
Dr. Klinger is a member of the Pulmonary Circulation Assembly of the American Thoracic Society and an Associate Editor of the journal Lung.
For more information on Dr. Klinger’s research, please visit: http://biomed.brown.edu/facultydirectory/profile.php?id=1100924486 .
For additional information, please contact Natalie Kent at 461-1548.
