Dr. Narges Alipanah-Lechner is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. She received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree and master's degree in clinical and epidemiological research from UCSF. Dr. Alipanah-Lechner's research interest is to apply complementary systems biology approaches within precision medicine to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with syndromes of critical illness such as sepsis and ARDS. She currently attends in the intensive care units and the pulmonary function laboratory at UCSF.