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Mai ElMallah, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, associate professor in neurobiology and cell biology and director of the Duke Cystic Fibrosis Center, was recently named chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, effective August 1, 2021.

Angela McCall, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Mai ElMallah, MBBCh, was nominated for the Staff Spotlight by her mentor and colleagues:

Preschoolers with asthma may have worse symptoms if they're overweight.

Compared to those with a healthy weight, heavy kids with untreated asthma had 37 more days with symptoms a year, according to a new report.

The study findings show that "early life weight gain does worsen the severity of asthma in the youngest patients," said study leader and lung specialist Jason Lang, MD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine.

Jason Lang, MD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine and Mai ElMallah, MBBCh, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, have been elected to the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR).