Positions

Overview

  • Dr. LaFon received his initial medical training at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. He went on to complete internship and residency, as well as clinical and research fellowships at the University of Alabama at Birmingham under the mentorship of Drs. Moon Nahm and Mark Dransfield.

    He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and directs the Multiplexed Opsonophagocytosis Assay (MOPA) Core Laboratory at UAB.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

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    2021 Correction to: Classical and lectin complement pathways and markers of inflammation for investigation of susceptibility to infections among healthy older adults (Immunity & Ageing, (2020), 17, 1, (18), 10.1186/s12979-020-00189-7).  Immunity and Ageing.  18. 2021
    2021 Pneumococcal Antibody Function for Immunologic Evaluation: Normal Results in Older Adults, and a Novel Analytical Model for Vaccine Response.  Journal of Clinical Immunology.  41:1964-1968. 2021
    2021 Risk of exacerbation and pneumonia with single-inhaler triple versus dual therapy in IMPACT.  Annals of the American Thoracic Society.  18:788-798. 2021
    2020 Serum IgG Levels and Risk of COPD Hospitalization: A Pooled Meta-analysis.  Chest.  158:1420-1430. 2020
    2020 Machine Learning and Prediction of All-Cause Mortality in COPD.  Chest.  158:952-964. 2020
    2020 Classical and lectin complement pathways and markers of inflammation for investigation of susceptibility to infections among healthy older adults.  Immunity and Ageing.  17. 2020
    2020 Classical and lectin complement pathways and markers of inflammation for investigation of susceptibility to infections among healthy older adults..  Immunity and Ageing.  17:18. 2020
    2020 Peripheral CD4 T follicular cells induced by a conjugated pneumococcal vaccine correlate with enhanced opsonophagocytic antibody responses in younger individuals.  Vaccine.  38:1778-1786. 2020
    2020 Pulmonary artery enlargement and mortality risk in moderate to severe COPD: Results from COPDGene.  European Respiratory Journal.  55. 2020
    2019 Effect of a fluid bolus on cardiovascular collapse among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation (PrePARE): a randomised controlled trial 2019
    2019 Interlaboratory variability in multiplexed pneumococcal antibody testing.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.  143:1255-1257. 2019
    2018 Measuring quantity and function of pneumococcal antibodies in immunoglobulin products.  Transfusion.  58:3114-3120. 2018
    2018 Measuring immune responses to pneumococcal vaccines.  Immunotechnology : an international journal of immunological engineering.  461:37-43. 2018
    2017 A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.  Chest.  152:712-722. 2017
    2016 Indirect effects of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in national immunization programs for children on adult pneumococcal disease 2016
    2013 Parthenogenetic populations of the freshwater snail Campeloma limum occupy habitats with fewer environmental stressors than their sexual counterparts.  Freshwater Biology.  58:655-663. 2013

    Research Overview

  • Dr. LaFon’s research focuses on adaptive immune responses and diagnostic approaches in bacterial respiratory infections, particularly among individuals with COPD and primary immunodeficiencies. He is currently investigating pneumococcal antibody function and IgG variants as risk factors for acute exacerbations of COPD. He is also involved with several collaborative clinical and translational studies focusing on antibody-mediated immune responses, respiratory infections, and COPD exacerbations/disease phenotypes.

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    Education And Training

  • Doctor of Medicine, University of South Florida 2012

    • Full Name

  • David LaFon