For the past 15 years Dr. Porszasz has been the technical director of the pulmonary function and exercise physiology laboratories in the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center at LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The center is specifically designed to enable multiple trials being conducted concurrently from NIH supported single and multicenter studies, industry sponsored clinical trials and different physiologic studies (“Home Grown Research”). All trials concentrate on furthering the diagnosis and therapy of chronic pulmonary diseases, with a primary focus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Many of these studies emphasize pulmonary function and exercise testing as well as rehabilitative exercise training. Dr. Porszasz is involved in several multicenter trials conducting the quality control across all laboratories of the exercise studies. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the above areas including rehabilitative exercise training in COPD and PAH patients and has been involved in several studies addressing gas exchange kinetics.

Exercise and Pulmonary Physiology, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET), Respiratory and Rehabilitation Medicine