Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
J. Bailey Carter, MD Professor,
Department of Internal Medicine,
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine,
RUSH Medical College
Co-Director, Rush Lung Center
Education
MD, University of Monterrey School of Medicine, Monterrey, Mexico
Internal Medicine Residency, Weiss Memorial Hospital/University of Chicago Program B
Chief Resident, Weiss Memorial Hospital/University of Chicago Program B
Clinical and Research Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Sleep Medicine Fellowship (Alternate track), Northwestern University
Masters of Science in Clinical Research (K30), Rush University
Research Areas
Mokhlesi is an international authority in the field of sleep-disordered breathing and hypoventilation syndromes. His clinical research program is collaborative in nature and he works closely with several investigators and research networks around the globe. His research includes clinical studies exploring the impact of sleep and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on type 2 diabetes and prediabetes in adults and youth, clinical trials exploring the intersection of sleep-disordered breathing and various pulmonary/critical care disorders such as acute-on-chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure in the ICU (ie, obesity hypoventilation syndrome) and COPD (ie, overlap of OSA and COPD exacerbation). To better elucidate how OSA may be a risk fator in the other comorbidities, he is interested in translational research (ie, murine models) exploring the role of intermittent hypoxemia and hypercapnia in pulmonary hypertension, atrial fibrillation, pulmonary fibrosis, renal injury and cancer progression. Throughout his career he has also leveraged large institutional and national databases to perform epidemiologic research.