Kathleen Mahan, MD

Dr. Kathleen Mahan specializes in caring for adults with cystic fibrosis and other chronic lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, and lung transplant. Her clinical expertise includes the management and care of complex, critically ill patients in the medical intensive care unit. She strives to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to all of her patients. As the co-director of Med 7532, she is actively engaged in teaching future physicians through the medical school and in the hospital and clinics.

Research interests include studying the effects of COVID-19 within the CF population, evaluation and better understanding of the lung microbiome and its effects on patient outcomes, particularly those with CF or who have undergone lung transplantation, and exploration of alternative therapies to antibiotics for chronic lung disease.