Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University. Prior to his appointment as Dean in January 2017, he served as the Sanford I. Weill Chairman and Professor of Medicine in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and as physician-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Before joining NYP/WCM in 2013, Dr. Choi was the Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received his MD from the University of Louisville and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center. He then pursued his Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins and was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins and at Yale. Dr. Choi served as Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh from 2000 to 2007 and then moved to Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007. He has a longstanding commitment to the training of physician-scientists. His research interest has focused on the function of mitochondrial dysfunction in regulating inflammation and cell death in acute and chronic lung diseases. He has translated the two decades of basic discoveries made in the signaling pathway and function of HO/CO to human patients with lung and vascular diseases. His research team has recently completed 2 NIH supported Phase II clinical trials, in the treatment for human sepsis and lung fibrosis. Dr. Choi has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is currently the Principal Investigator of 4 NIH RO1’s and NIH/NHLBI Program Project grant. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is a recipient of the 2010 ATS Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments and Amberson Lecture, the top research award in the international ATS community.