Ehab Billatos, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
Dept of Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

MD, University of Texas at Austin



Dr. Billatos is investigating gene expression alterations in the bronchial airway associated with acute exposure to tobacco cigarettes. Furthermore, this response to smoking may differ in patients with COPD giving insight into the pathogenesis and development of COPD.

He is also working in the DECAMP consortium (Detection of Early Cancer Among Military Personnel) which aims to improve the early diagnosis of lung cancer in veterans via biomarker validation and development. This project serves as a biorepository of specimens and data unparalleled in contemporary pulmonary medical research.

Finally, Dr. Billatos is also pioneering a project to leverage the local field of injury in the evaluation of peripheral nodules via electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy (ENB) and radial-probe endobronchial ultrasound (r-EBUS).

2017 University of Texas: Master’s Program Designated Scholarship
2015 American College of Chest Physicians: Alfred Soffer Research Award
2015 American College of Chest Physicians: Chest Conference Poster Award
2010 University of Texas: Paul Brand Scholarship


DECAMP 1 PLUS: Prediction of Lung Cancer Using Noninvasive Biomarkers
03/01/2019 - 03/01/2023 (PI)
Johnson & Johnson


DECAMP Novartis: Infrastructure and Science
07/16/2018 - 07/15/2022 (PI)
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research


DECAMP (Immunology)
12/01/2016 - 11/17/2020 (PI)
Janssen Research & Development, LLC


DECAMP (Oncology)
12/01/2016 - 11/17/2020 (PI)
Janssen Research & Development, LLC





Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
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  1. Billatos E, Faiz A, Gesthalter Y, LeClerc A, Alekseyev YO, Xiao X, Liu G, Ten Hacken NHT, Heijink IH, Timens W, Brandsma CA, Postma DS, van den Berge M, Spira A, Lenburg ME. Impact of acute exposure to cigarette smoke on airway gene expression. Physiol Genomics. 2018 Sep 01; 50(9):705-713.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29932825.
     
  2. Billatos E, Vick JL, Lenburg ME, Spira AE. The Airway Transcriptome as a Biomarker for Early Lung Cancer Detection. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Jul 01; 24(13):2984-2992.View Related Profiles. PMID: 29463557.
     
  3. Gesthalter Y.B., Billatos E, Kathuria H. Genomic and Personalized Medicine. Molecular Profiling of Lung Cancer. Academic Press. Cambridge. 2015; 4.
  4. Mikhail AA, Orvieto MA, Billatos ES, Zorn KC, Gong EM, Brendler CB, Zagaja GP, Shalhav AL. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: first 100 patients with one year of follow-up. Urology. 2006 Dec; 68(6):1275-9. PMID: 17169649.
     
  5. A Mikhail, Song D, Orvieto M, Chien G, Stockton B, Billatos E, Gong E, Laven B, Zagaja G, Shalhav A. Sural Nerve Grafting in Robotic Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy. The Journal of Urology. 2006. View Publication

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In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

Caring, understanding, and compassionate to patients
An ability to communicate and educate patients about their disease in a way that is easy to understand
Specializes in performing procedures for the diagnosis of lung cancer
Early detection of lung cancer using gene expression profiling
Impact of acute smoke exposure on the airway transcriptome
Increasing the sensitivity of navigational bronchoscopy for the detection of peripheral lung cancer
Gene expression profiling for the classification of COPD
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