Professor of Medicine
Dr. Hertz is the director of the Advanced Lung Disease Center and is the program leader of one of the ten Lillehei Heart Institutes’s (LHI) Basic Science Research programs. Dr. Hertz holds the first LHI Endowed chair and is a member of LHI’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr. Hertz has contributed steadily to the clinical lung transplant literature during the past 15 years including recent original observations related to community respiratory virus infections in lung transplant recipients. He also has led a project to improve the knowledge base of house staff and referring physicians caring for lung transplant recipient which has culminated in publication of a Manual of Lung Transplant Medical Care (2nd edition published in 2001).