Top experts by indication / Respiratory
Most active experts in Asthma
2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026
455 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Asthma. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.
Most registered trials
Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 84 of the 455 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.
| # | Expert | trials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elliot IsraelBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 21 trials |
| 2 | Mario CastroUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS | 12 trials |
| 3 | Fernando MartinezUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, MA | 11 trials |
| 4 | Stanley SzeflerUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, CO | 11 trials |
| 5 | Jason LangFL | 8 trials |
| 6 | Sally WenzelUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA | 8 trials |
| 7 | Robert TepperIndiana University School of Medicine, IN | 8 trials |
| 8 | Juan WisniveskyIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 8 trials |
| 9 | Anne DixonUniversity of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, VT | 8 trials |
| 10 | Stephen PetersWake Forest University School of Medicine, NC | 7 trials |
| 11 | Robert WoodCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH | 7 trials |
| 12 | William CalhounThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX | 7 trials |
| 13 | Monica KraftIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 6 trials |
| 14 | Robert WiseJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 6 trials |
| 15 | Njira LugogoUniversity of Michigan, MI | 6 trials |
| 16 | Emily DimangoColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY | 6 trials |
| 17 | Eugene BleeckerUniversity of Arizona, NC | 5 trials |
| 18 | Michael WechslerNational Jewish Health, CO | 5 trials |
| 19 | Jerry KrishnanUniversity of Illinois Chicago, IL | 5 trials |
| 20 | Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ | 5 trials |
| 21 | Loretta QueDuke University Hospital, NC | 5 trials |
| 22 | Lewis SmithIL | 4 trials |
| 23 | Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 4 trials |
| 24 | Larry BorishUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 4 trials |
| 25 | Meredith McCormackJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 4 trials |
Most cited
Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 32 of the 455 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.
| # | Expert | citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernando MartinezUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, MA | 141,679 citations |
| 2 | Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 86,411 citations |
| 3 | Sally WenzelUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA | 72,768 citations |
| 4 | Robert WiseJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 62,052 citations |
| 5 | Eugene BleeckerUniversity of Arizona, NC | 58,022 citations |
| 6 | Serpil ErzurumCleveland Clinic, OH | 49,088 citations |
| 7 | Joel MossNational Institutes of Health, MD | 42,732 citations |
| 8 | Stanley SzeflerUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, CO | 42,290 citations |
| 9 | Mario CastroUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS | 42,268 citations |
| 10 | Wayne MorganUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, AZ | 33,828 citations |
| 11 | Nicholas HillTufts Medical Center, MA | 28,650 citations |
| 12 | Nicola HananiaBaylor College of Medicine, TX | 26,233 citations |
| 13 | Michael WechslerNational Jewish Health, CO | 23,998 citations |
| 14 | Jerry KrishnanUniversity of Illinois Chicago, IL | 23,439 citations |
| 15 | Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ | 23,337 citations |
| 16 | David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 20,252 citations |
| 17 | Meredith McCormackJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 19,092 citations |
| 18 | Larry BorishUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 18,328 citations |
| 19 | William CalhounThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX | 18,082 citations |
| 20 | Gary FergusonPulmonary Research Institute of Southeast Michigan, MI | 16,961 citations |
| 21 | Robert TepperIndiana University School of Medicine, IN | 10,533 citations |
| 22 | Theresa GuilbertCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH | 10,332 citations |
| 23 | Anne DixonUniversity of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, VT | 9,091 citations |
| 24 | Njira LugogoUniversity of Michigan, MI | 9,051 citations |
| 25 | Emily DimangoColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY | 7,851 citations |
Most NIH awards
NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 36 of the 455 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.
| # | Expert | awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 51 awards |
| 2 | Juan WisniveskyIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 30 awards |
| 3 | Robert WiseJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 18 awards |
| 4 | Elliot IsraelBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 15 awards |
| 5 | Serpil ErzurumCleveland Clinic, OH | 15 awards |
| 6 | Sally WenzelUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA | 12 awards |
| 7 | Larry BorishUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, VA | 12 awards |
| 8 | Meredith McCormackJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 12 awards |
| 9 | Robert TepperIndiana University School of Medicine, IN | 10 awards |
| 10 | Stanley SzeflerUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, CO | 10 awards |
| 11 | Eugene BleeckerUniversity of Arizona, NC | 9 awards |
| 12 | Anne DixonUniversity of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, VT | 9 awards |
| 13 | David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 7 awards |
| 14 | Lewis SmithIL | 6 awards |
| 15 | Jerry KrishnanUniversity of Illinois Chicago, IL | 6 awards |
| 16 | Michael WechslerNational Jewish Health, CO | 5 awards |
| 17 | Reynold PanettieriRutgers, NJ | 5 awards |
| 18 | Loretta QueDuke University Hospital, NC | 5 awards |
| 19 | Stephen PetersWake Forest University School of Medicine, NC | 4 awards |
| 20 | Emily DimangoColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY | 4 awards |
| 21 | Wayne MorganUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, AZ | 4 awards |
| 22 | Michelle TrivediUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, MA | 3 awards |
| 23 | Fernando MartinezUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, MA | 3 awards |
| 24 | William CalhounThe University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX | 3 awards |
| 25 | Monica KraftIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 2 awards |
Most congress contributions
Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 6 of the 455 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 6 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.
| # | Expert | contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David HuiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX | 72 contributions |
| 2 | Joel MossNational Institutes of Health, MD | 7 contributions |
| 3 | Ronald CrystalWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 3 contributions |
| 4 | Nicholas HillTufts Medical Center, MA | 1 contribution |
| 5 | Jerry KrishnanUniversity of Illinois Chicago, IL | 1 contribution |
| 6 | Serpil ErzurumCleveland Clinic, OH | 1 contribution |
Emerging
20 of the 455 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.
| Rubin CohenSUNY Upstate Medical University, TX |
| Giuseppe ColasurdoThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX |
| Alexandra CornellMerck & Co., OR |
| Anna EisensteinYale School of Medicine, CT |
| Jane FazioUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| Stanley GalantChildren's Hospital of Orange County, CA |
| Mercedes GonzalezFL |
| William HarrisUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, AL |
| Adelaide HebertMcGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, TX |
| Breanna KinghornUniversity of Washington, WA |
| Kavitha KothaNationwide Children's Hospital, OH |
| Rees LeeUniversity of Arizona, AZ |
| Eva OtoupalovaVA |
| Tahuanty PenaUniversity of Iowa, IA |
| Lindsay ReinDuke University, NC |
| Beverley ShearesYale School of Medicine, CT |
| Gwen SklootChiesi, NY |
| Mary SpellmanPhio Pharmaceuticals, CA |
| Anubha TripathiVA |
| Lisa WheatleyOR |
How these tables are computed
The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Asthma, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.
Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.
The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.
What is deliberately absent
Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.