The organization selected Dr. Rahaghi based on his commitment to care, research and education in interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis, according to a Sept. 5 news release from the foundation.
Dr. Rahaghi, a pulmonary medicine and critical care specialist, currently serves as director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at the Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston, a clinical professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and has written 48 peer-reviewed publications, according to the release.