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Stuart C. Sweet, M.D., Ph.D.
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine
Cystic Fibrosis Center
Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
Patient Oriented Research
Dr. Sweet received his undergraduate, graduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. He was pediatric resident and pediatric pulmonology fellow at Washington University before joining the faculty in 1996. Dr. Sweet became medical director of the Pediatric Lung Transplant Program in 1999. He is board certified in Pediatric Pulmonology by the American Board of Pediatrics. Past honors include the Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research, Scholar of the Child Health Research Center of Excellence in Developmental Biology, Washington University, Medical Scientist Award for Excellence, University of Michigan. Professional Societies include the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Thoracic Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Sweet's primary research is focused on improved understanding of the important factors determining outcome after lung transplantation in children. He is PI of an NIH funded multicenter collaborative study of the role viral infections play in lung transplant outecomes.
Dr. Sweet is immediate past Chair of the Organ Transplantation and Procurement Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Pediatric Transplantation Committee and is currently a member of the OPTN/UNOS Thoracic Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the OPTN/UNOS as well as the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He is also Secretary/Treasurer of the board of the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Sweet other interests include organ allocation and the use of information technology in medicine.
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- B.S. (Chemistry), University of Michigan, 1981
- M.D., University of Michigan, 1989
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989
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- Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1990-93
- Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonology, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, 1993-96
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- Medical Scientist Award for Excellence, University of Michigan, 1990
- M.D. with distinction in research, University of Michigan, 1989
- Burton L. Baker Cancer Research Fellowship, Michigan Cancer Institute, 1986-87
- B.S. (Chemistry) with highest distinction, highest honors in chemistry and high honors in physics, University of Michigan, 1981
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1980
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- Ibrahim JE, Sweet SC, Flippin M, Dent C, Mendeloff E, Huddleston CB, Trinkhaus K, Canter CE. Rejection is reduced in thoracic organ recipients when transplanted in the first year of life. Journal of Heart & Lung Transplant 2002;21:311–318.
- Danziger-Isakov LA. de la Morena M. Hayashi RJ. Sweet S. Mendeloff E. Schootman M. Huddleston CB. DeBaun MR. Cytomegalovirus viremia associated with death or retransplantation in pediatric lung-transplant recipients. Transplantation 2003; 75(9):1538-43.
- Danziger-Isakov LA. Faro A. Sweet S. Michaels MG. Aurora P. Mogayzel PJ Jr. Mallory GB Jr. Boyer DM. Rice TB. DelaMorena M. DeBaun MR. International Pediatric Lung Transplant Collaborative Group. Variability in standard care for cytomegalovirus prevention and detection in pediatric lung transplantation: survey of eight pediatric lung transplant programs. Pediatric Transplantation. 2003; 7:469-73
- Meyers BF. de la Morena M. Sweet SC. Trulock EP. Guthrie TJ. Mendeloff EN. Huddleston C. Cooper JD. Patterson GA. Primary graft dysfunction and other selected complications of lung transplantation: A single-center experience of 983 patients. Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery. 2005; 129(6):1421-9
- Sweet SC, Wong H-H, Webber SA, Horslen S, Guidinger MK, Fine RN, Magee JC. Pediatric Transplantation in the United States, 1995-2004. American Journal of Transplantation. 2006. (5p2), 1132-1152.
- Egan, TM, Murray, S, Bustami, RT, Shearon, TH, McCullough, KP, Edwards, LB, Coke, MA, Garrity, ER, Sweet, SC, Heiney, DA & Grover, FL. Development of the New Lung Allocation System in the United States. American Journal of Transplantation 2006. 6 (5p2), 1212-1227.
- Palomar LM, Nogee LM, Sweet SC, Huddleston CB, Cole FS, Hamvas A. Long-term outcomes after infant lung transplantation for surfactant protein B deficiency related to other causes of respiratory failure. Journal of Pediatrics. 2006. 149(4):548-53.
- Elizur, A, Sweet, SC, Huddleston, CB, Gandhi, SK, Boslaugh, SE, Kuklinski, CA, & Faro, A. (2007). Pre-transplant mechanical ventilation increases short-term morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation, 26, 127-131.
- Bartosh SM. Ryckman FC. Shaddy R. Michaels MG. Platt JL. Sweet SC. A national conference to determine research priorities in pediatric solid organ transplantation. (2008). Pediatric Transplantation. 12(2):153-66.
- Sweet SC. Aurora P. Benden C. Wong JY. Goldfarb SB. Elidemir O. Woo MS. Mallory GB Jr. International Pediatric Lung Transplant Collaborative. Lung transplantation and survival in children with cystic fibrosis: solid statistics--flawed interpretation. (2008). Pediatric Transplantation. 12(2):129-36.
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