Robert Pickett Dickson, MD

Dr. Dickson's laboratory specializes in integrative translational research, spanning from molecular characterization of respiratory microbiota to animal modeling of acute lung disease to prospective trials of human subjects. His work has been published in Nature Microbiology, The Lancet, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Lancet Respiratory Medicine. He is an Associate Director of the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care, a member of the Editorial Board of Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and an Associate Editor of Microbiome.

General pulmonary disease, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma, interstitial lung disease. General critical care, shock, respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, sepsis.

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Dr. Dickson's research focus is the lung microbiome: microbial communities in the respiratory tract. By combining the techniques of microbial ecology with his expertise in respiratory pathophysiology, he studies how the lung microbiome is established in health and disrupted in disease. Dr. Dickson's work focuses on the common diseases of critical illness: pneumonia, sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome.