Borna Mehrad, MD
Enriched profileEthel Smith Research Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Vice Chair of Research (UF Health pages) · University of Florida Health
Borna Mehrad is Ethel Smith Research Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Vice Chair of Research (UF Health pages) at University of Florida Health. OpenAlex indexes 244 publications with 8,612 citations (h-index 51); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study with this person as an investigator.
Data verified 22 Oct 2026
Overview
Updated 22 Oct 2026
Borna Mehrad, MD, is Ethel Smith Research Professor and Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at University of Florida Health. The public record shows 244 publications with 8,612 citations (h-index 51), centered on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Chemokine receptors and signaling. It also documents an investigator role on 1 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 1 companies, 5 NIH-funded awards (2019–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Journal of magnetic resonance imaging
- Top research focus: Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- 1 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 1 companies
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintDrugs & molecules
across trials, industry payments and publicationsWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 21 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 101.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
Telephone
Practice address and telephone from the federal NPPES registry.
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Updated 22 Oct 2026
Listed as an investigator on 1 registered study on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Double-blind Placebo-controlled Pilot Study of Sirolimus in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
Sponsor: University of Virginia
Industry payments
Updated 22 Oct 2026
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2025–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Polarean, Inc.Program year20258 payments
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cancer & immunology
38%Kinase inhibitor32.1%Ofev100%Part D<11 patientsPurine Antimetabolite5.9%Azathioprine100%Part D<11 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
32.9%Corticosteroid32.9%Prednisone100%Part D≥26 patientsRespiratory
14.3%beta2-Adrenergic Agonist8.9%Albuterol Sulfate Hfa100%Part D<11 patientsCorticosteroid5.5%Fluticasone Propionate100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
Updated 22 Oct 2026
5 NIH research awards on record, funded 2019–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Multiscale modeling of the role of heme during invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
University of Florida
FY2026$748,363R01AI135128 - Mechanistic modeling of the innate immune responses of the human lung to understand the inter-individual heterogeneity of COVID-19 pneumonia
University of Florida
FY2026$705,669R01HL169974
Publications
Updated 22 Oct 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Pulmonary MRI in Interstitial Lung Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Meta-analysis2026 - Mathematical Modeling of the Complement System: a Scoping Review.
Bulletin of mathematical biology
Article2026 - Understanding Racial Disparities in Lung Transplant Outcomes: A Comparative Study of White and Hispanic Patients.
Clinical transplantation
Article2025 - Personalizing computational models to construct medical digital twins.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Article2025 - Multimodality Imaging for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis.
Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging
Review2025
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01New Mechanisms of Pulmonary FibrosisArticle284 citations2009
- 02
- 03CXC Chemokines in Cancer Angiogenesis and MetastasesBook chapter263 citations2010
- 04Role of TNF-alpha in pulmonary host defense in murine invasive aspergillosis.Article263 citations1999
- 05Regulation of Neutrophil Function by AdenosineArticle260 citations2012
Network
Updated 22 Oct 2026
The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.
Online presence
Updated 22 Oct 2026
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Owned accounts
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doximity.com/pub/borna-mehrad-md
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Mentions by others
where others cite or feature them- Other
scholars.ufl.edu/bmehrad
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Background & recognition
Updated 22 Oct 2026
Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.
Education
degrees and training on record- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu ↗
Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Professor and Associate Chair for Research
University of Florida (ORCID-declared, current)
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Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida (per UF Health pages)
provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →medicine.ufl.edu ↗
Awards & honors
honors on the public record- verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →news.drgator.ufl.edu ↗
- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu ↗
Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →immunology.ufl.edu ↗
Media & interviews
press, podcasts and appearances- WCJB-TV20 Medical Spotlight: Treating Interstitial Lung Disease (2018)
featuring Dr. Borna Mehrad
2018provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu ↗
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