Juan C. Celedón, MD, DrPH

  • Professor of Pediatrics
  • Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
  • Division Chief, Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Administrative Assistant: Barbara Newton

Dr. Celedón is the Niels K. Jerne Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Division Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at UPMC His research goals are to identify genetic and environmental determinants of airway diseases, particularly in racial/ethnic minorities. Dr. Celedón leads NIH-funded projects on the “omics” and epidemiology of asthma and has authored or co-authored over 390 publications. 

Dr. Celedón’s work as a physician-scientist and mentor has been recognized by multiple organizations and institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Celedón was the first faculty member to ever receive both the Young Mentor Award (2005) and the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award (2010) from Harvard Medical School. In appreciation of his scientific contributions, he was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2010) and the Association of American Physicians (2015). Further, he has received the “Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments” (2014), the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations in Health Equity” (2015), and the “John M. Peters Award” (2017) from the American Thoracic Society (ATS). In 2020, Dr. Celedón became the first Latino and the first faculty member from the University of Pittsburgh to serve as ATS President since the society was founded in 1905.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American Thoracic Society, Fellow, 1993-Present
  • Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation, 2010-Present
  • Elected Member, Association of American Physicians, 2015-Present
  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Fellow
  • American College of Physicians, Fellow

Education & Training

  • MD, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Medicine, 1988
  • MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 1999
  • DrPH, Harvard School of Public Health, 2001
  • Internship in Medicine, Lincoln Hospital, New York Medical College, 1989-1990
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1990-1992
  • Fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine, 1992-1995
  • Research/Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1997-1999
  • Research Fellow in Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 1999-2000

Selected Publications

Academic and Research Interests

  • Asthma
  • Health disparities
  • Genomics
  • Epidemiology

Research Grants

R01 HL168539-01, Exposure to violence during childhood and Th2-high asthma in young Puerto Rican adults, 2023-2028, NIH/NHLBI. 

R01 HL152475-03 (Celedón/Isasi), Nasal epithelial epigenomics and transcriptomics and asthma in Hispanic adults, 2021-2026, NIH/NHLBI. 

Transcriptomics for personalized risk assessment in asthma, 2023-2026, Pitt/UPMC Institute for Precision Medicine. 

2 T32 HL129949, Pittsburgh Training Grant in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, 2016-2027

R25 HL158295-02 (Celedón/Sanders-Lucas), The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh -Cardiology, Hematology and Pulmonology Summer Research Internship Program (CHP2-SRIP), 2021-2026, NIH/NHLBI. 

K12 HD052892  (Dermody), Molecular basis of pediatric disease training program, 2017-2027, NIH/NICHHD. 

U01 OH010401 (de la Hoz), Pulmonary Diseases in WTC Workers: Symptoms, Function, and Chest CT Correlates, 2023-2027, NIOSH/CDC. 

U01 OH011697 (de la Hoz), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in WTC Workers- Diagnoses and transitions, 2023-2026, NIOSH/CDC. 

R01 HL149693 (Forno), Obesity and Childhood Asthma: The Role of Adipose Tissue, 2023-2025, NIH/NHLBI. 

R01 LM014142 (Tseng), Disease subtyping guided by clinical phenotype for precision medicine, 2023-2026, NLM.