Mark Joseph Eliason

Mustafa Mir-Kasimov, MD, is an Associate Professor at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine and serves as the Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Section at the VA Medical Center. Dr. Mir-Kasimov received his Medical Degree from Moscow Medical Academy, Russia in 1996. After three years of research and training at the Department of Vascular Surgery of Moscow Medical Academy he continued his further post-graduate education in the United States. He completed residencies in both Family and Internal Medicine at Carilion Medical Systems affiliated with the University of Virginia in Roanoke, VA in 2005. He went on to his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Utah, which he completed in 2009. Upon completion of his fellowship he joined the faculty as a Visiting Instructor at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Mir-Kasimov is board certified in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. His research interests include alveolar epithelium, its interaction with innate and adaptive immunity, and the role this interaction plays in acute lung injury, lung repair and fibrosis; pulmonary macrophage biology, macrophage polarization and its role in the development of pulmonary fibrosis. Clinical research interests include lung cancer screening, post-ICU syndrome.