Nirmal Sharma

Dr. Nirmal S Sharma is the Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

He received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College in India and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva in New York. He then finished a clinical and post-doctoral research fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with additional training in Lung Transplantation and Mechanical-Circulatory Support at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

After his fellowship, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and lung transplantation faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Thereafter, he was recruited to The University of South Florida/Tampa General Hospital Advanced Organ Institute and served as the Medical Director of the ECMO program prior to joining Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.

Dr. Sharma's clinical and research interests are in lung transplantation and extracorporeal life support technologies. His basic/translational research program is focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in transplantation rejection and development of novel therapeutics to treat and/or prevent rejection.

Education

• Fellowship- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham (2013 - 2016)
• Internal Medicine Residency Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2011 - 2013)
• Internship Internal Medicine Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) (2010 — 2011)
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) Stanley medical college (2002 — 2008)
• Higher Secondary Air force bal bharti (1990 — 2000)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Of Medicine Harvard Medical School (2021)
• Medical Director, Lung Transplantation BOSTON VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (2021)
• Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program Brigham and Women's Hospital (2020)
• Associate Physician Brigham and Women's Hospital (2019)
• Member of Faculty Harvard Medical School (2020 — 2021)
• Co-Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program Brigham and Women's Hospital (2019 — 2020)
• Medical Director, ECMO Program Tampa General Hospital (2018 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor USF Morsani School of Medicine (2017 — 2019)
• Attending Physician Tampa General Hospital (2017 — 2019)