Cynthia Gries, MD
Medical Director of Lung Transplant
Transplant
Overview
Dr. Cynthia Gries is a board-certified critical care physician with advanced fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine who is part of the medical team at the AdventHealth Transplant Institute. She joined AdventHealth from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she was an assistant professor of medicine and immunology. Dr. Gries earned her medical degree at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She completed her pulmonology and critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Washington (UW) and also holds a master’s degree in epidemiology from UW. Prior to her tenure in Pittsburgh, she served on the UW faculty as a lung transplant sub-specialist.
Articles
Underweight Patients With Cystic Fibrosis Have Acceptable Survival Following Lung Transplantation A United Network for Organ Sharing Registry Study
CHEST
2020
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and American Association for Thoracic Surgery Workshop Report: Identifying collaborative clinical research priorities in lung transplantation
JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
2018
Education & Training
Education
Pritzker School of Medicine - University of Chicago; University Of Washington School Of Medicine; Johns Hopkins Bayview Med Center
Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital;
Johns Hopkins Bayview Med Center
Fellowship
University of Washington Medical Center;
University Of Washington School Of Medicine