Anne Dixon
E.L. Amidon Chair and Professor, Department of Medicine
PRONOUNS She/Her
Department of Medicine
BIO
Dr. Dixon’s research interest has focused on understanding the effects of obesity and metabolism on lung disease. She had developed a research program at UVM focused on this area. She was the lead editor of the first book published on obesity and lung disease, and the lead author of an ATS statement on obesity and asthma. She has organized four international meetings bringing together experts in the field of lung disease with experts in the field of obesity and metabolism, her overall goal for these meetings is to advance this field and foster the career development of new researchers in the emerging field of obesity and lung disease.
Her group has pioneered the concept of different phenotypes of asthma and obesity and has a number of ongoing studies to understand the mechanisms causing asthma in obesity, a population that now represents the majority of patients with severe asthma. Her group also has a number of ongoing clinical trials investigating treatments specifically targeting this disease.
For Dr. Dixon's current publications, please visit:
Bio
Dr. Dixon’s research interest has focused on understanding the effects of obesity and metabolism on lung disease. She had developed a research program at UVM focused on this area. She was the lead editor of the first book published on obesity and lung disease, and the lead author of an ATS statement on obesity and asthma. She has organized four international meetings bringing together experts in the field of lung disease with experts in the field of obesity and metabolism, her overall goal for these meetings is to advance this field and foster the career development of new researchers in the emerging field of obesity and lung disease.
Her group has pioneered the concept of different phenotypes of asthma and obesity and has a number of ongoing studies to understand the mechanisms causing asthma in obesity, a population that now represents the majority of patients with severe asthma. Her group also has a number of ongoing clinical trials investigating treatments specifically targeting this disease.
For Dr. Dixon's current publications, please visit: