CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
Nicholas Kolaitis specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine, with a focus on lung transplantation and pulmonary hypertension. He is one of the attending physicians on the inpatient lung transplantation service, where he cares for patients with advanced lung disease before and after lung transplantation. His outpatient clinical time is split between three clinics (1) the lung transplantation clinic, where he sees patients with advanced lung disease before and after transplantation, (2) the pulmonary hypertension clinic, where he sees patients with pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary emboli, and (3) the general pulmonary clinic, where he supervises the excellent care provided by fellows in the UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program.

ADMINISTRATIVE/SERVICE ROLES
Nicholas Kolaitis is the Director of Bronchoscopy at UCSF. He is a member of the executive board of the California Thoracic Society, where he also serves as the chair of the Career Development Committee, and as one of two California representatives to the American Thoracic Society, as part of the Council of Chapter Representatives. Additionally, he is active in the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation as part of the Advocacy Committee, and in the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, where he serves on the steering committee for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry.

RESEARCH PURSUITS
Nicholas Kolaitis' research focuses on ways to improve health-related quality of life for patients with advanced lung disease.