John Francis McDyer MD

Interstitial Lung Diseases, Lung Transplantation Medicine

Scientific Director, University of Pittsburgh Lung Transplant Research Center

Summary

Dr. John McDyer is a transplant pulmonologist in Pittsburgh, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is a Professor and tenured physician scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and has been in practice 27 years. He specializes in interstitial lung diseases and lung transplantation medicine and is experienced in lung transplantation, cytomegalovirus, bronchiolitis obliterans, flow cytometry, and genetics of interstitial lung disease with an emphasis in telomere biology. He has more than 100 publications and over 500 citings.

Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineFellowship, Joint Critical Care/Pulmonary Medicine, 1998 - 2002
National Institutes of Health Clinical CenterFellowship, Allergy and Immunology, 1993 - 1998
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Internal Medicine, 1990 - 1993
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1990
St. Joseph's UniversityB.S., Chemistry , 1982 - 1986

PubMed

Belatacept as an alternative immunosuppressive agent for bone marrow-sparing in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis lung transplant recipients with short telomeres.
Stefanie J Hannan, Carlo J Iasella, Michel Sciullo, Cody Moore, Ryan Rivosecci
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2025-10-01
Persistent and progressive acute lung allograft dysfunction is linked to cell compositional and transcriptional changes in small airways.
Elsa Brunet-Ratnasingham, Shivaram Yellamilli, Ruyin Guo, Rashmi Prava Mohanty, Allen Duong
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2025-09-01
The search for peripheral tolerance in lung transplantation.
Mark E Snyder, John F McDyer
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 2025-07-01

Episode 37: December 2023December 6th, 2023
‘An Emergency Need’: Doctors Issue Call for Help to Fight Shrinking Supply of Convalescent PlasmaJanuary 18th, 2021
Common Drug May Prevent Afib After Lung TransplantMay 24th, 2019

The Role of Telomeres in Lung Transplant Recipient Immunity and OutcomesUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH2023–2028
Airway epithelial cell and lymphocyte interactions in chronic lung allograft dysfunction pathogenesisUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2022–2027
Airway epithelial cell and lymphocyte interactions in chronic lung allograft dysfunction pathogenesisUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2022–2027
The Clinical and Molecular Impacts of Lung Primary Graft DysfunctionUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH2022–2027
Development Of Cmv-Specific T Cell Memory In Lung Transplant RecipientsNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases2011
Development Of Cmv-Specific T Cell Memory In Lung Transplant RecipientsNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases2009–2011
CMV Replication During Primary Infection In Lung Transplant RecipientsNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases2008–2009
Cmv-Specific T-Cell Immunity In Lung Transplant RecipientsNational Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases2007–2008
Regulation Of TH1 Responses By IL-2 Receptor BlockadeNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2003–2007