James K. Stoller MD, MS, FCCP, FACP, ATSF, FAARC

Dr. Stoller is Chief of Education at Cleveland Clinic. He holds the Jean Wall Bennett Professorship of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and the Samson Global Leadership Academy Endowed Chair. He is a pulmonary/critical care physician in the Cleveland Clinic Integrated Hospital Institute. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (Cleveland Clinic) in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

In 1979, Dr. Stoller earned a medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and later completed an internship and residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He then completed fellowships in pulmonary/critical medicine (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Yale), clinical epidemiology (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale) and respiratory intensive care (Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital) before joining the Respiratory Institute Staff at Cleveland Clinic in 1986.

His clinical research has focused on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, especially alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and on strategies of care delivery, especially respiratory therapy. He has authored/edited 20 books (including 6 editions of Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care), over 386 peer-reviewed reports, 88 chapters and more than 125 abstracts, and serves on the editorial board for Respiratory Care and previously Clinical Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. He also serves as the Section Editor on COPD for UpToDate.

Dr. Stoller is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society Fellow, and the American Association for Respiratory Care.