Sebastian Kurz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Kurz is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and member of the Yale Center for Asthma and Advanced Airway Disease (YCAAD) where he directs the COPD clinic. He obtained his MD and PhD in Medical Microbiology from Julius-Maximilians University Wuerzburg, Germany. He underwent residency training at CWRU Cleveland, where he also completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He has a focus on inflammatory airways disease, and lung infections with clinical experience in mycobacterial lung disease, including tuberculosis and its sequelae, NTM and bronchiectasis, complex pleuropulmonary and airway infections. His research focuses on identification of novel antibiotic combinations to treat resistant mycobacteria. He is board certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), member of the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society.