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Richard Matthay, MD

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Pulmonary)
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richard.matthay@yale.edu
203.785.4196

Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8057

United States

About

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Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine (Pulmonary)

Biography

Dr. Matthay graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1970 and trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) at University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver from 1970 – 1975. In 1975, he joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care section at Yale as an Assistant Professor. In 1979, he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1984, Professor of Medicine. In 1993, he was appointed the Boehringer Ingelheim Professor of Medicine. Dr Matthay was Associate Director of the Yale PCCM section from 1975 – 1988 and 1990 – 2010. From 1988-1990, he was Acting Chief of the PCCM Section and from 1990-1994, he was Associate Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine.

From 1975-2002, Dr. Matthay was Director of the training program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale and he is currently Ex-officio Director of this training program. He serves as an attending in the PCCM Fellows Winchester Chest Clinic and he also serves as a Yale New Haven Hospital inpatient attending.

Dr. Matthay is a senior member of the Yale Thoracic Oncology Program (TOP). Recently, he edited a book on lung cancer with a TOP program colleague, Dr. Lynn Tanoue (Clinics in Chest Medicine: Lung Cancer, 12/2011).

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Fellow
University of Colorado (1975)
Resident
University of Colorado Medical Center (1973)
MD
Tufts University (1970)

Board Certifications

  • Pulmonary Disease

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1976

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1973

Research

Overview

Dr. Matthay has continuing interest in the epidemiology and etiology of lung cancer. He and two colleagues (Drs. Lynn Tanoue and Charles Dela Cruz) have written a chapter on the epidemiology and etiology of lung cancer for the most recent edition of the Fishman Textbook, Pulmonary Diseases Diseases and Disorders (2015)

Dr Matthay serves on the editorial board of several medical journals, including Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Pulmonary Medicine.

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Richard Matthay's published research.

Publications

2011

2009

2005

  • Arroliga AC, Matthay MA, Matthay RA: Pulmonary thromboembolism and other pulmonary vascular diseases in Chest Medicine: Essentials of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. George RB, Light RW, Matthay MA, Matthay RA (eds), 5th Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

1998

Others

  • Trow T, Matthay RA: Management of venous thromboembolism in the critically ill obese patient [in] Critical Care Management of the Obese Patient. Solh AE (ed), New York: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 13, pp 108-115, 2012.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Dela Cruz CS, Beuther DA, Matthay RA (Editors): Obesity and Respiratory Disease. A Clinics in Chest Medicine Monograph. 30:415-614, (September) 2009.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • George RB, Light RW, Matthay MA, Matthay RA (Eds): Chest Medicine: Essentials of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 5th Edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott-Williams and Wilkins, 2005.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Tanoue LT, Matthay RA (Editors): Lung Cancer. Clinics in Chest Medicine, Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2011.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Dela Cruz CS, Matthay RA: Lung Cancer (Chapter 17) [in] Oxford Handbook of Pulmonary Medicine, Brown KK, Lee-Chiong T, Chapman S., Robinson G, Stradling J and West S, (eds.) New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp 161-198.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Boehringer Ingelheim Endowed Chair of Medice

    Yale School of Medicine AwardYale University School of Medicine

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Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8057

United States