Karin Provost clinical responsibilities include working as one of five Intensive Care Unit physicians at the Buffalo VA Medical Center (Buffalo VAMC). She also have a pulmonary medicine outpatient clinic at the UBMD multispecialty practice in Williamsville. Education and Training: PhD, Investigative Medicine, Yale University School of Graduate Studies (2010); Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Yale University School of Medicine (2006); Residency, Categorical Internal Medicine, George Washington University Hospital (2002); Internship, Categorical Internal Medicine, George Washington University Hospital (2000); DO, Medicine, Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine (1999); BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Cum Laude (1995). Research Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, State University of New York (2008-present). Her lab has optimized a noninvasive macrophage model (monocyte-derived macrophage) to study how to restore the immune function of alveolar macrophages in patients with COPD. Using this model, she study cell surface receptor expression, cytokine responses and intracellular signaling using flow cytometry, bead arrays and molecular biology techniques. Her door is always open to any trainee at any level.

Immunology; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine