Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director Pediatric Lung Transplant Program; Medical Director Lung Transplantation; Pulmonary Transplant Director Pulmonary

• Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
• Lung Transplantation
• Cystic Fibrosis Center
• Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine

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. He is board certified in Pediatrics and 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 current research interests focus on improved understanding of the important factors determining outcome after lung transplantation. Dr. Sweet also has a special interest in medical information systems. He has developed several clinical and research databases for the division and is supervising development of the data repository for the International Pediatric Lung Transplant Collaborative.

Dr. Sweet is a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Pediatric and Thoracic transplant committees. He is also a member of the board of the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Education

• B.S. (Chemistry), University of Michigan, 1981
• M.D., University of Michigan, 1989
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989

Training

• Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 1990-93
• Fellow in Pediatric Pulmonology, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, 1993-96

Honors

• 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

Selected Publications

1. Mendeloff EN, Meyers BF, Sundt TM, Guthrie TJ, Sweet SC, de la Morena MT, Shapiro S, Balzer DT, Trulock EP, Lynch JP, Pasque MK, Cooper JD, Huddleston CB, Patterson GA: Lung transplantation for pulmonary vascular disease. Ann of Thorac Surg 2002; 73:209-17.

2. 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. J Heart Lung Transplant 2002; 21:311–318.

3. Lu KC, Jaramillo A, Mendeloff EN, Huddleston CB, Sweet SC, Patterson GA, Mohanakumar T: Concomitant allorecognition of mismatched donor HLA class I- and class II- derived peptides in pediatric lung transplant recipients with Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003; 22: 35-43.

4. Lee R, Sweet SC, de la Morena MT, Mendeloff EN, Huddleston CB: Bilateral lung transplantation for pulmonary hypoplasia due to congenital diaphragmatic hernia. J Thoracic & Cardivasc Surg 2003; 126(1):295-7.

5. Pechet TV, de la Morena MT, Mendeloff EN, Sweet SC, Shapiro S, Huddleston CB: Lung transplantation in children following treatment for malignancy. J Heart Lung Transplant 2003; 22(2):154-60.

6. Danziger-Isakov LA, delaMorena 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.

7. Siegel MJ, Lee EY, Sweet SC, Hildebolt C: CT of posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in pediatric recipients of lung allograft. American Journal of Roentgenology 2003; 181(4):1125-31.