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Brian Keller, MD, PhD

Brian Keller, MD, PhD

Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Academic Interests

Dr. Keller is the Medical Director of the MGH Lung Transplant Program. His clinical and research interests focus on improving outcomes following lung transplantation, novel diagnostics and therapeutics in the transplant space, and the role of the virome in transplant outcomes. He is working to establish and grow a lung transplant biorepository at MGH.

Awards and Recognition

  • Immediate past-Chair, Advanced Lung Failure and Transplantation Interdisciplinary Network Steering Committee for the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

  • Region 1 representative to the Lung Transplantation Committee for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)

  • MGH ELEVATE Physician Leadership program

  • Graduate of the Faculty Leadership Institute, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

More information can be found on Dr. Keller’s Harvard Catalyst Profile.

+Current Projects

  • Targeting inflammation and alloimmunity in lung transplant recipients with tocilizumab (ALL IN LUNG) - site PI
  • MGH Lung Transplant clinical data and biospecimen repository
  • Telomeres in lung transplantation (TILT)
  • Global infection control practices in lung transplantation
  • The lung microbiome in lung transplantation