Richard B. Moss

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Richard B. Moss, MD

Former Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary & Allergy

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

Palo Alto, CA

Dr. Moss, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Stanford University, is former chief of the pediatric pulmonary and allergy divisions, and former allergy-immunology and pulmonary fellowship training programs director at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. He was educated and trained at Columbia (BA), SUNY Downstate (MD), Children’s Memorial Hospital of Northwestern University (pediatric residency) and Stanford (allergy-immunology and pulmonology fellowships).

He was Director of the Stanford Cystic Fibrosis Center from 1991 to 2009 and a principal investigator for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Therapeutics Development Network, where he also served as inaugural Chair of the Protocol Review Committee. He is a member of Stanford’s Child Health Research Institute and has served on Stanford’s Pediatric Mentoring Program for trainees and junior faculty, the Executive Committee of Spectrum Child Health (Stanford’s NIH-funded clinical research program) and the Stanford IRB.

Dr. Moss has reviewed and consulted for the NIH, CFF, national and international foundations, and many peer-review bioscience journals and biopharmaceutical companies. He has published over 340 research papers and is a frequent speaker at national and international medical conferences. His research interests have included pathogenesis, outcome measures, and treatment of chronic airway diseases of childhood such as asthma, CF and chronic lung disease of infancy, with an emphasis on mechanisms of pulmonary immunity, inflammation and allergy. Recent work has focused on allergic fungal lung disease and clinical testing of novel CF tests and treatments. He joined CFRI’s Board of Directors in 2015.

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