Marilyn Glassberg Csete, M.D.

Marilyn Glassberg Csete, M.D. is the John W. Clarke Professor and Chair of Medicine at Loyola Stitch School of Medicine in Chicago since July 1, 2022. Prior to this position, she served as the inaugural chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (UArizona COM-P); Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair of Medicine, and Chief Research Strategy Director from 10/2019 to 7/2022. As Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSOM) from 1992-2022, she founded and directed the Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease Program and served as Chief of the Pulmonary Division at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute. She is board-certified in pulmonary medicine and an internationally recognized expert in interstitial and autoimmune lung diseases.

After completing her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College and initial research training with Drs.Judah Folkman and Bruce Zetter at Harvard Medical School, she obtained her medical degree and postgraduate training at UMMSOM. Throughout her career, her research has focused on the pivotal role of inflammation in the onset and progression of chronic interstitial lung diseases and the effects of mesenchymal stem cells (exosomes), sex hormones, and aging in the lung. Her group has conducted NIH, industry-sponsored, and investigator-initiated clinical trials in chronic lung disease for over 25 years. Dr. Glassberg published the first in man phase 1 clinical trial of intravenous infusion of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in patients with IPF (AETHER) to deliver a safe, anti-inflammatory therapy (Chest 2017) with a Phase 2b/3 trial pending.

She is well recognized for her development of key educational and interactive programs in pulmonary medicine nationally and internationally, having led these efforts through the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). Early in her career, she spearheaded in person and audio programs through the ACCP on the increased risk of women for lung disease related to tobacco exposure. She then expanded to create a women's luncheon at the annual international ACCP meeting that has had continuous industry-sponsorship, increasing yearly attendance, and developed longstanding mentorship relationships for medical students, trainees and faculty in academic as well as non-academic settings for almost 30 years. Speakers from non-medical fields have provided business and career trajectories for the membership.

As an advocate for the continued growth of academic medicine, she is dedicated to the conduct of productive, innovative, and relevant basic science and clinical research to advance patient care. As Chair of Medicine, she has promoted development of department and institutional programs at Loyola that facilitate collaborations between basic and health sciences and the medical school. A result of these efforts supports an integrated institutional review board-approved emotional intelligence curriculum directed by junior clinician-educator faculty in Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medicine/Pediatrics. With her colleagues, these interactive sessions are an integral part of the medical student curriculum and trainee education.

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