Neil Schluger, M.D.

Neil W. Schluger, M.D. is the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Science at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Schluger is also the Chief Scientific Officer of the World Lung Foundation. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and took his training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York. He has served as a visiting fellow and guest investigator at the Rockefeller University and in the Pulmonary Branch of the National Hearth, Lung, and Blood Institute of NIH.

Dr. Schluger’s academic career has focused on tuberculosis, a field in which he has worked for the last 18 years. He has performed studies in several areas related to tuberculosis, including: elucidation of the nature of human host responses to tuberculosis; evaluation of novel diagnostic approaches; conventional and molecular epidemiologic studies; and clinical trials. Dr. Schluger is the author of over 100 articles, chapters and books, and his work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, among other journals. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC), an international research consortium funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Education and Training

Undergraduate:

B.A. from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1981

Medical School:

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1985

Internship:

Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY, 1985-1986

Residency:

Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY, 1986-1988

Chief Residency:

Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY, 1988-1989

Fellowship(s):

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, 1989-1992

Visiting Fellow, Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 1992

Selected Honors and Awards

• 1979-1980 John Harvard Scholarship
• 1990-1992 Stony Wold-Herbert Fund Foundation Fellowship for Pulmonary Research
• 1993-1994 National Research Service Award (individual), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH)
• 1994-1999 Tuberculosis Academic Award, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
• 1994 Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
• 1999 Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
• 2001-2012 listed in “New York’s Top Doctors” (Castle Connolly Medical)
• 2001-2012 listed in “America’s Top Doctors” (Castle Connolly Medical)
• 2002 American Society of Clinical Investigation, elected
• 2009 Ewig Clinical Scholar Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons