OSU Medical Center Asthma Expert Named to National Post
Columbus Daily Reporter
OSU Lantern
5/19/2008

Columbus, Ohio – Dr. John Mastronarde, a pulmonologist at The Ohio State University Medical Center and director of its asthma center, has been named training committee chair of the American Thoracic Society. 

The training committee reviews the society’s activities and policies related to training in pulmonary, critical care and sleep disorders, in addition to making recommendations for growth and improvement. Mastronarde also will be responsible for annually evaluating the role of fellows on the society’s various committees.

Mastronarde is a NetWellness expert in asthma. NetWellness is an educational service, co-sponsored by Ohio State, that provides medical and health information to consumers via the Web.

He also specializes in exercise-induced asthma in competitive and recreational athletes, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for asthma. He is board certified in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and sleep medicine.

Mastronarde directs the pulmonary and critical care fellowship program and is director of the clinical trials office in the division of pulmonary, allergy, critical care and sleep medicine at the Medical Center.

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These items resulted from a news release distributed by OSU Medical Center Media Relations, available on the Web at: http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/press/article.cfm?ID=3967