Kevin McCarthy

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About Kevin McCarthy

Kevin is a Director of Respiratory Science at Clario, a leader in the clinical trials industry. Kevin has been working in the field of lung function testing since 1973. He was the manager of the Pulmonary Function Laboratories at the Cleveland Clinic Health System for nearly 40 years. Kevin managed the pulmonary function quality control in two NIH-funded registries: patients with severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and was the site manager at Cleveland Clinic for the NETT study (lung volume reduction surgery). Kevin has co-authored nearly 50 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters on pulmonary function testing. He is a former member of the ATS PFT Committee. He was a member of the ATS/ERS Task Forces that updated the standards for Spirometry in 2019 and updated the standards for the measurement of static lung volumes in 2023. Kevin is also a member of the faculty that presents the annual MGC Diagnostics Cardiorespiratory Diagnostics Seminar which has been providing excellent pulmonary function education for over 25 years."I have always been passionate about the quality of pulmonary function measurements. This passion has moved to the clinical trial world where data quality is critical if these measurements are to accurately answer the questions we are asking."