EdwardANardellMD

Pulmonology • Boston, MA

Pleural Disease

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Office
15 Francis St
Center for Chest Diseases, Brigham And Womens Hospital
Boston, MA 02115
Phone+1 617-732-6770
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Education & Training

Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1975 - 1977
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1972 - 1975
Drexel University College of MedicineClass of 1972

Certifications & Licensure

MA State Medical License 1977 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2014
Boston Magazine Castle Connolly, 2008-2013
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

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P Jacob Bueno de Mesquita, Rosemary K Sokas, Mary B Rice, Edward A Nardell> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2024 Apr 1
Accuracy of digital chest x-ray analysis with artificial intelligence software as a triage and screening tool in hospitalized patients being evaluated for tuberculosis...
Biewer, A., Tzelios, C., Tintaya, K., Roman, B., Hurwitz, S., Yuen, C., Mitnick, C., Lecca, L., Tierney, D., Nardell, E., Nathavitharana, R.> ;PLOS Global Public Health. 2024 Jan 1
Far-UVC: Technology Update with an Untapped Potential to Mitigate Airborne Infections.
P Jacob Bueno de Mesquita, Rosemary K Sokas, Mary B Rice, Edward A Nardell> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2023 Dec 1
Accuracy of digital chest x-ray analysis with artificial intelligence software as a triage and screening tool in hospitalized patients being evaluated for tuberculosis...
Amanda Biewer, Christine Tzelios, Karen Tintaya, Betsabe Roman, Shelley Hurwitz, Carole D Mitnick, Edward Nardell, Leonid Lecca, Dylan B Tierney, Ruvandhi R Nathavitha...> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Dec 7
2 citations
Predicting Airborne Infection Risk: Association Between Personal Ambient Carbon Dioxide Level Monitoring and Incidence of Tuberculosis Infection in South African Healt...
Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana, Hridesh Mishra, Amanda Sullivan, Shelley Hurwitz, Philip Lederer, Jack Meintjes, Edward Nardell, Grant Theron> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022 Oct 12
Ceiling impact on air disinfection performance of Upper-Room Germicidal Ultraviolet (UR-GUV).
Shengwei Zhu, Tong Lin, Lingzhe Wang, Edward A Nardell, Richard L Vincent, Jelena Srebric> ;Building and Environment. 2022 Oct 1
4 citations
FAST tuberculosis transmission control strategy speeds the start of tuberculosis treatment at a general hospital in Lima, Peru.
Dylan B. Tierney, Eli Orvis, Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Shelley Hurwitz, Karen Tintaya, Dante Vargas, Patricia Segura, Silvana de la Gala, Leonid Lecca, Carole D. Mit...> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2021 Oct 6
4 citations
“If I’ve got latent TB, I would like to get rid of it”: Derivation of the CARD (Constraints, Actions, Risks, and Desires) Framework informed by South African healthcar...
Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Ananja van der Westhuizen, Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen, Hridesh Mishra, Annalean Sampson, Jack Meintjes, Edward A. Nardell, Andrew McDow...> ;Plos One. 2021 Aug 18
4 citations
Air Disinfection with Germicidal Ultraviolet: For this Pandemic and the Next.
Rolf Bergman, David J. Brenner, Manuela Buonanno, Ewan Eadie, Paul Donald Forbes, Paul A. Jensen, Edward A. Nardell, David H. Sliney, Richard L. Vincent, David Welch, ...> ;Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2021 May 1
26 citations
Air Disinfection for Airborne Infection Control with a Focus on COVID-19: Why Germicidal UV is Essential .
Edward A. Nardell> ;Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2021 Apr 5
1 citations
Time to Revise Our Tuberculosis Infection-Latency-Disease Model in High-Burden Settings
Edward A. Nardell> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2021 Jun 1
64 citations
Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Role for Air Disinfection.
Edward A. Nardell, Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana> ;JAMA. 2020 Jul 14
6 citations
Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Can Transform COVID-19 Infection Prevention Response.
Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Payal K. Patel, Dylan B. Tierney, Preeti Mehrotra, Philip Lederer, Sheila Davis, Edward A. Nardell> ;Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2020 Apr 23
8 citations
Cool but dangerous: How climate change is increasing the risk of airborne infections.
Edward A. Nardell, Philip Lederer, Hridesh Mishra, Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Grant Theron> ;Indoor Air. 2020 Mar 1
2 citations
Preventing Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-A Refocused Approach.
Edward A. Nardell> ;Clinics in Chest Medicine. 2019 Dec 1
5 citations
Air disinfection in measles transmission hotspots.
Edward A. Nardell, Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana> ;Lancet. 2019 Sep 5
78 citations
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission: 2019 update: epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant and incurable tuber...
Keertan Dheda, Tawanda Gumbo, Gary Maartens, Kelly E. Dooley, Megan Murray, Jennifer Furin, Edward A. Nardell, Robin M. Warren> ;The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine. 2019 Sep 1
9 citations
Treatment as prevention and other interventions to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Philip Lederer, Dylan B. Tierney, Edward A. Nardell> ;The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2019 Apr 1
39 citations
Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in HIV-endemic settings.
Palwasha Khan, Tom A Yates, Muhammad Osman, Robin M. Warren, Yuri F. van der Heijden, Nesri Padayatchi, Edward A. Nardell, David Moore, Barun Mathema, Neel R. Gandhi, ...> ;The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 2019 Mar 1
7 citations
Process measure of FAST tuberculosis infection control demonstrates delay in likely effective treatment.
H Le, N Nguyen, P Tran, Ngo Thi Hoa, N Hung, A Moran, H J Al Mossawi, Neeraj Kak, Sevim Ahmedov, Meredith B Brooks, Edward A. Nardell, Dylan B. Tierney> ;The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2019 Feb 1
69 citations
Reducing tuberculosis transmission: a consensus document from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.
Giovanni Battista Migliori, Edward A. Nardell, Askar Yedilbayev, Lia D'Ambrosio, Rosella Centis, Marina Tadolini, Martin van den Boom, Soudeh Ehsani, Giovanni Sotgiu, ...> ;The European Respiratory Journal. 2019 Jan 1
33 citations
Droplets, dust and guinea pigs: an historical review of tuberculosis transmission research, 1878-1940
Peter R. Donald, Andreas H. Diacon, Christoph Lange, A-M Demers, F. von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Edward A. Nardell> ;The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2018 Sep 1
19 citations
Designing and Evaluating Interventions to Halt the Transmission of Tuberculosis.
David W. Dowdy, Alison D Grant, Keertan Dheda, Edward A. Nardell, Katherine Fielding, David Moore> ;The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2017 Nov 3
23 citations
FAST implementation in Bangladesh: high frequency of unsuspected tuberculosis justifies challenges of scale-up.
Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Paul Daru, Amy Elizabeth Barrera, S.M. Mostofa Kamal, Shirajul Islam, Manjur ul-Alam, Razia Sultana, Mostafizur Rahman, Md. Shamim Hossain,...> ;The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2017 Sep 1
374 citations
The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis
Keertan Dheda, Tawanda Gumbo, Gary Maartens, Kelly E. Dooley, Ruth McNerney, Megan Murray, Jennifer Furin, Edward A. Nardell, Leslie London, Erica Lessem, Grant Theron...> ;The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine. 2017 Apr 1
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Journal Articles

Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Role for Air Disinfection
Edward A Nardell, Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana, JAMA

Authored Content

Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Role for Air DisinfectionJune 2020
Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Role for Air DisinfectionJune 2020
Airborne Spread of SARS-CoV-2 and a Potential Role for Air DisinfectionJune 2020

Press Mentions

Ultraviolet Light System Could Mitigate COVID Risk in SchoolsAugust 24th, 2021
Sunlight, Humidity ‘Unlikely’ Impacts on How COVID-19 Spreads, Homeland Security Study FindsApril 8th, 2021
Carbon Dioxide Levels at TCDSB School Regularly Exceeded Recommended Limits: StudyFebruary 20th, 2021
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Grant Support

Sustainable AIR Disinfection Technology Innovations For Resources Limited SettingFogarty International Center2010
Testing Interventions To Human-Generated Occupational Airborne InfectionsNational Institute For Occupational Safety And Health2006–2010

Hospital Affiliations

Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts