Robert P. Dickson, MD

Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Deputy Director, Weil Institute

734-936-5549
rodickso@med.umich.edu

Dr. Dickson is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan. He serves as Associate Chief (Research) for the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, as Deputy Director of the Weil Institute, and as Program Director of his Division's T32 Training Program. He received his undergraduate degree from St. John's College in 2000, an M.D. from Duke University in 2007, and completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Washington in 2011, after which he served as Chief Medical Resident at Harborview Medical Center from 2011-2012. He completed his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and has been a member of the faculty since 2014.

Dr. Dickson is a physician-scientist who studies the role of the microbiome in lung disease and critical illness. He complements my clinical and research background in the pathophysiology of pulmonary and critical care medicine with expertise in the culture-independent techniques of microbial ecology. He has successfully used this approach to improve our understanding of the microbiome in sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), bacterial pneumonia, lung transplantation, pulmonary fibrosis, and the respiratory tract of healthy individuals. His laboratory specializes in integrative translational research, spanning from molecular characterization of respiratory microbiota to animal modeling of sepsis and lung injury to prospective trials of human subjects.

Dr. Dickson's research has been published in Science Translational Medicine, Nature Microbiology, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Lancet Respiratory Medicine. He is a Senior Editor at Microbiome, a Specialist Editor of European Respiratory Journal, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Lancet Respiratory Medicine.