Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

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Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons

622 West 168^th Street

PH 8 Center, Room 840

New York, NY 10032

Clinical Office Address:

Columbia Presbyterian Eastside
16 East 60th Street
Suite 320
New York, New York 10022

Phone: 212-305-0631

Fax: 212-305-7063

ead3@columbia.edu

Affiliations:

Edsall-Wood Asthma Center

Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program

Emily DiMango, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Director, John Edsall-John Wood Asthma Center
Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program

Clinical and Research Interests:

Dr. DiMango conducts clinical research studies in the fields of asthma and cystic fibrosis. She serves as the Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at Columbia and is investigator for clinical research studies of novel treatments in cystic fibrosis.

She also serves at the Director of the John Edsall/John Wood Asthma Center at Columbia. She is currently a co-investigator in a multi-center network of Asthma Clinical Research Centers sponsored by the American Lung Association. She is also Principal Investigator in a study of the safety and effectiveness of omalizumab (Xolair) in minority individuals with asthma. She has directed asthma intervention studies in Northern Manhattan aimed at providing long-term asthma care for patients with asthma. She also serves as Course Director for the bi-annual Continuing Medical Education Course in Asthma and Allergy.

Biography:

B.S., New York University, 1984
M.D., New York University School of Medicine, 1989
Residency, The Presbyterian Hospital
Fellowship, Pulmonary Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Honors:

Brown Award in Chemistry, New York University, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
Bachelor of Science, Magna cum laude, New York University, 1984
Outstanding Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine, 1993
J. Amberson Burns Fellow, New York Lung Association, 1994-1996
Parker B. Francis Fellowship for Pulmonary Research, 1996-1999
Merck Medical School Award, 2000

Publications:

Emily DiMango, Heather Zar, Ruth Bryan and Alice Prince. Various Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene products stimulate respiratory epithelial cells to produce IL-8. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 1995; 2204-2210.

Tang, Hope, E. DiMango, R. Bryan and A. Prince. The contribution of specific P. aeruginosa virulence factors to the pathogenesis of pneumonia. Infection and Immunity. 1996; 64:37-43.

Emily DiMango and Alice Prince. 1997. Infections in cystic fibrosis. In Krugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children, tenth edition. Eds. Katz, Gershon and Hoetz. (Mosby, St. Louis, MO).

Emily DiMango, Setareh Tabibi, Adam Ratner, Alice Prince. Activation of NFkB in normal and CF airway epithelial cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 1998. 101:2598-2606.

Ruth Bryan, Matthew Feldman, Sheryl C. Jawetz, Sujatha Rajan, Emily DiMango, H. Babette Tang, David P. Speert and Alice Prince. The effects of aerosolized dextran in a mouse model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pulmonary infection. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1999. 179(6) 1449-1458.

Asthma Clinical Research Center. The safety of inactivated influenza vaccine in adults and children with asthma. N Engl J Med, 2001. 345 (2): p. 1529-36

Emily DiMango, Herman Lubetsky and John Austin. Upper Lobe Segmental Bronchi in acute asthma: assessment on posteroanterior chest radiographs. Journal of Asthma. 2002:39: 255-262.

Rachel Miller, Matthew Cheng, Emily DiMango, Paul Rothman. T cell responses and hypersensitivity to influenza and egg antigens among asthmatic adults immunized with the influenza vaccine. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2003; 112(3): 606-8.

Boushey HA, Sorkness CA, King TS, … DiMango, E. for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Asthma Clinical Research Network. Daily versus as needed corticosteroids for mild persistent asthma. N Engl J Med 2005 Apr 14; 352 (15):1519-28.

Deykin A, Lazarus SC, Fahy JV…DiMango, E. Sputum eosinophil counts predict asthma control after discontinuation of inhaled corticosteroids. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005 April 115 (4): 720-727.

DiMango, E, Remache D, Tatis V. Results of a culturally directed asthma intervention program in an inner city Latino community. In press. Chest 2005

DiMango, E., Tatis, V. Asthma prevalence in a predominantly Latino community in New York City. Submitted.