About Jack A. Elias

Dr. Jack A. Elias is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Professor of Immunobiology and Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary) at Yale University. He was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and raised in Philadelphia, where he received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

After completing his internship and junior residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Dr. Elias completed a senior residency and fellowships in Allergy and Immunology and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then became an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

In 1990, he moved to Connecticut to head the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he was named the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor in 2000. In 2006, he became Chairman of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Yale New Haven Hospital and in 2007 he was named Professor of Immunobiology.

Dr. Elias has been active at the National Institutes of Health and has served on various councils and advisory boards. His research on cellular and molecular mechanisms of lung injury and repair has resulted in continuous funding from the NIH since 1982. His email address is jack.elias@yale.edu and his mailing address is PO Box 208056, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8056, United States.