Carli Lehr, MD, PhD is a staff pulmonologist at the Respiratory Institute and Associate professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, specializing in transplant medicine. She treats patients with advanced lung disease before and after lung transplantation.
Dr. Lehr is a physician scientist whose research is focused on organ allocation, statistical modeling in transplant systems, and optimizing donor selection. She holds the Gregory and Maureen Church endowed chair in Lung Transplantation Research. She currently holds a K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a donor and candidate risk prediction system to optimize lung allocation and transplant outcomes. She is the recipient of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award to improve the predictive accuracy of the lung allocation score and identify cystic fibrosis-specific risk factors that impact waitlist mortality and optimize the timing of transplant for at-risk patients. Dr. Lehr serves as a co-investigator on the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium which is comprised of fifteen transplant centers to advance lung transplant research for individuals with cystic fibrosis. She has also received research support from the American Society of Transplantation and the Cleveland Clinic Center for Populations Health Research.
Dr. Lehr earned her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine from Duke University. She completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine from the Cleveland Clinic. She earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research and a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Translational Science from Case Western Reserve University.
Professor of Medicine
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry
University of Western Ontario
