Oscar Henry Mayer

Pediatric Pulmonologist; Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

United States of America

Dr. Oscar Henry Mayer is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Attending Pulmonologist within the Division of Pulmonology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where he is the medical director of the CHOP Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) laboratory. For the last 18 years he has been the pulmonologist in the Neuromuscular Center and in the Center for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome since its inception 12 years ago and directs much of the outpatient and inpatient management of these patients. He has broad clinical interests including managing patients with chronic respiratory failure, the pulmonary manifestations of neuromuscular disease, and assessing and managing patients with complex chest wall and spine disease. He is on a number of national committees and study groups involved in pediatric pulmonary function testing, the assessment and management of children with complex thoracospinal disorders and neuromuscular disorders, on which he has lectured nationally and internationally and has published a variety of journal articles and book chapters.

Disclosure statement:

Dr. Oscar Henry Mayer holds the following consulting, speaking or advisory board memberships:
1. Santhera Therapeutics
2. Biogen
3. Fibrogen
4. Capricor
5. Roche