Journal of Chest & Pulmonary Medicine

Juzar Ali

Designation: Professor

Department: Department of Pulmonary Critical care

Institution: Louisiana State University

Country: United States

Dr. Juzar Ali, Professor of Medicine at LSU is an academic clinician / clinical educator and healthcare administrator within the section of Pulmonary Critical care section at LSUHSC New Orleans. He has worked nationally and internationally in the field of tuberculosis, and at the LSU Health Sciences Center has developed programs that contribute to the education of medical students, allied health professionals, and the community. His clinical, academic and research interest include the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis mycobacterial disease and related co-morbidities in pulmonary medicine. He has participated in various multicenter studies and trials of tuberculosis and Non-TB Mycobacteria and has co-authored a textbook, Pulmonary Pathophysiology, a symptom-based clinical and pathophysiologic review of lung diseases. He has also developed a Chest Radiology PRE-TEST series for medical students and residents. Dr. Ali is a recipient of numerous teaching awards over the last two decades. He was recently recognized as a member of the Best Doctors in America and at a national level was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Teaching Grant and Alumni award and Fulbright Senior Scholar Award twice with academic tenures in Turkey and India. He has also been a Visiting Faculty to Vietnam under the US-Vietnam Education Fund Program. Currently his focus is on developing a Mycobacterial Diseases Mentoring and Training program in the section and creating mycobacterial diseases clinical and basic science registry and data base in collaboration with other departments at LSUHSC.