Overview
Elizabeth Oelsner, MD, DrPH is a general internist, respiratory epidemiologist, and Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).
Dr Oelsner graduated from Harvard College and worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company prior to earning her MD from the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at CUMC, followed by a fellowship in General Medicine that included a Masters in Public Health from the Mailman School. She joined the CUMC faculty in 2014 and was named an Irving Scholar in 2018. In May 2024, she received her Doctorate in Public Health from the Mailman School.
Academic Appointments
- Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medicine
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Gender
- Female
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Insurance Accepted
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- POS
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
UnitedHealthcare
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Research
Dr Oelsner’s research leverages multi-disciplinary approaches and collaborative studies to identify and understand risk factors for chronic lung diseases. She is currently leading studies that apply quantitative lung imaging to assess the pulmonary parenchymal and microvascular effects of emerging respiratory risk factors including COVID-19 (The COVID-19 Lung-MaPS Study, NHLBI R01-HL157634) and non-cigarette tobacco products (The VapeScan Study, NHLBI R01-HL155576).
She leads the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study, which has harmonized extensive cardiopulmonary phenotypic data, including lung function and respiratory events, in order to perform large-scale epidemiologic analyses relating to chronic lung diseases, cigarette and non-cigarette tobacco use (R21HL153700), and cardiovascular disease. Results from the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study have been published in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Dr Oelsner is also the Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Cohort of Cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R, NHLBI OT2HL156812), which is ascertaining cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 illness and events, and sequelae, across fourteen NHLBI and NINDS funded studies. These studies are distinguished by the racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and regional diversity of their participants, as well as their long-term follow up with deep and broad pre-pandemic phenotyping that includes imaging, multi-omics, and social determinants of health. C4R thereby aims to provide a collaborative resource to define risk and resilience factors for COVID-19 illness and its long-term sequelae (including by participation in RECOVER, OT2HL162011), as well as to study the impact of the pandemic on trajectories of health and disease.
Selected Publications
- Valdes A, Andrew T, Gardner JP, Kimura M, Oelsner EC, Aviv A, Spector TD. Obesity, smoking, and telomere length in women. Lancet2005;366:662-4. PMID: 16112303
- Oelsner EC, Hoffman EA, Folsom AR, Carr JJ, Enright PL, Kawut SM, Kronmal R, Lederer DJ, Lima J, Lovasi GS, Shea S, Barr RG. Association of percentage of emphysema-like lung on cardiac computed tomography and mortality in persons without airflow obstruction: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study. Ann Intern Med 2014; 161:863-73. PMID: 25506855
- Oelsner EC, Lima JAC, Kawut SM, Burkart KM, Enright PL, Ahmed FS, Barr RG. Non-invasive tests for the diagnostic evaluation of dyspnea among outpatients: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study. Am J Med 2015; 128(2):171-180. PMID: 25447621
- Oelsner EC, Carr JJ, Enright PL, Hoffman EA, Folsom AR, Kawut SM, Kronmal RA, Lederer DJ, Lima JAC, Lovasi GS, Smith BM, Shea SJ, Barr RG. Percent emphysema is associated with respiratory and lung cancer mortality in the general population: a cohort study. Thorax. 2016; 71(7)624-32. PMID: 27048196
- Oelsner EC, Smith BM, Hoffman EA, Folsom AR, Kawut SM, Kaufman JD, Manichaikul A, Lederer DJ, Schwartz JE, Watson KE, Enright PL, Austin JHM, Lima JAC, Shea SJ, Barr RG. Associations between emphysema-like lung on CT and incident airflow limitation: a general population-based cohort study. Thorax. 2018;73(5):486-488. PMID: 29074811
- Oelsner EC, Loehr LR, Henderson AG, Donohue KM, Enright PL, Kalhan R, Lo Cascio CM, Ries A, Shah N, Smith BM, Rosamond W, Barr RG. Classifying chronic lower respiratory disease events in epidemiologic cohort studies. Ann Amer Thorac Soc. 2016;13(7):1057-66. PMID: 27088163
- Oelsner EC, Smith BM, Hoffman EA, Kalhan R, Donohue KM, Kaufman JD, Nguyen JN, Manichaikul AW, Rotter JI, Michos ED, Jacobs DR Jr, Burke GL, Folsom AR, Schwartz JE, Watson K, Barr RG. Prognostic Significance of Large Airway Dimensions on Computed Tomography in the General Population. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018; 15(6):718-727. PMID: 29529382
- Oelsner EC, Balte PP, Cassano P, Couper D, Enright P, Folsom AR, Hankinson J, Jacobs DR, Kalhan R, Kaplan R, Kronmal R, Lange L, Loehr L, London SJ, Navas Acien A, Newman AB, O’Connor GT, Schwartz JE, Smith LJ, White W, Yeh F, Yende S, Barr RG. Harmonization of Respiratory Data from Nine US Population-Based Cohorts: the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2018. PMID: 29982273
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov