She is a nationally known expert in interstitial lung disease and IPF. She serves as Medical Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program and the IPF Clinical Trials Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and has served on steering committees of large national IPF clinical trials. She has also served as the Lead Investigator on a large multinational IPF clinical trial. The Vanderbilt IPF Clinical Trials Center is part of the original 11-center NIH IPF Network and has been involved in 37 multi-center pharmaceutical company and NIH studies, including being a top enroller in most IPF clinical trials. In addition to serving as the site principal investigator for these multi-center trials, she also conducts research in sleep disorders in IPF, and is a member of steering committees for both the PFF Care Center Network and Patient Registry and the ILD