Nicola Hanania, MD, MS, FRCP(C), FCCP, FACP

Nicola (Nick) A. Hanania, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Asthma Clinical Research Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is also Director of the Asthma Adult Clinic and Pulmonary Diagnostic services at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston.
After receiving a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree and a Masters of Science degree in Internal Medicine from the University of Jordan, Dr. Hanania completed Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Jordan, followed by a Residency in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hanania then completed a Research Fellowship at the Asthma Center of the Toronto Hospital, followed by a Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He is currently certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
As a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Dr. Hanania has served on the Board of Regents and as Chair of the Clinical Pulmonary, Airways Networks and Council of Networks for this organization. He has been on the Board of Trustees of the Chest Foundation since 2012. In addition, he is a current member of the Health Policy Committee of the American Thoracic Society, has served as the U.S. delegate to the European Respiratory Society and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He has been a member on several guidelines and workshop panels including the ACP/ATS/ACCP/ERS Clinical Practice guidelines on COPD and the CTS/ACCP COPD exacerbations guidelines.