Professor
University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Jeffrey R. Fineman, MD is Professor, Vice-Chair of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Service, and Investigator of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Fineman leads an NIH funded translational research program studying pediatric pulmonary vascular diseases, with particular focus on congenital heart disease. He is devoted to mentoring fellows and junior faculty. As such, he serves as the Principal Investigator of two NIH T32 research training programs: Research Training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Multidisciplinary Research Training in Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease. In addition, he serves as the Program Director of the UCSF Pediatric Departmental K12 program. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Pulmonary Circulation, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH K12 in Pediatric Critical Care.
Dr. Fineman is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including an Established Investigator and Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association, the Maureen Andrew SPR mentoring award, and the UCSF Lifetime Achievement Mentoring Award.