ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2023

Aartik Sarma, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He studied biomedical engineering and public policy at Brown University and has an MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital before coming to UCSF for fellowship training pulmonology and critical care medicine. As an NHLBI F32 postdoctoral fellow, he trained with Dr. Carolyn Calfee, an expert in the prevention and treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome, and Dr. Stephanie Christenson, an expert in computational and genomic analyses of respiratory disease. Dr. Sarma's research is focused on understanding heterogeneous pulmonary diseases defined by broad clinical criteria including ARDS, pneumonia, and COPD exacerbations. He uses computational methods to study transcriptomic and metagenomic data, with the goal of identifying disease subphenotypes and describing their biology.