Dr. Wasserman is Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, on Recall, and former Chief of Respiratory Physiology and Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine, at UCLA.

He received his PhD in Physiology (Circulation) and Medical degree at Tulane University School of Medicine. He had his internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Osler Service, and Special USPHS Research Fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, at UCSF.

He was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School and Associate and Full Professor of Medicine at UCLA, where he served for 30 years as Chief of Respiratory and Critical Physiology and Medicine before he went on Emeritus Professor on Recall status.

Dr. Wasserman has published over 275 peer reviewed research publications on blood volume, capillary permeability, pulmonary hemodynamics, renal physiology and extensively in exercise physiology in health and disease over the past 40 years. He has authored, co-authored or edited 5 books on these topics.

Dr. Wasserman is a member of the American Physiological Society, American Heart Association (Cardiopulmonary Council, Basic Science Council, Fellow of Council on Circulation)Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, American Federation for Clinical Research. He served on Research Committees of the American Heart Association and the American Thoracic Socisety.

Dr Wasserman’s Academic and Professional Honors

Elected Member, Am. Soc. for Clin. Invest. and Assoc. of Am. Physicians; Special Citation for Distinguished Service to Research, Am. Heart Assoc., 1977; Visiting Scholar Award, California Lutheran College, 1974; Special Citation, Am. College of Sports Medicine, 1981; Presidential Citation Award, Am. College of Chest Physicians, 1981; California Medal, Am. Lung Assoc., 1982; Elected to Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, 1987; Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, Am. Heart Assoc., Los Angeles, 1991. Walter B. Cannon Award, Am. Physiol. Soc., 1992. Distinguished Alumnus in Physiology, Tulane Medical School, 1993. Selman Waksman Lecture, 1994, New Jersey Thoracic Society. Louis Mark Lecture, Nov. 2, 1994, American College of Chest Physicians, “Legends” Award, Harbor-UCLA Medical Ctr.,2004, Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006, American Thoracic Society