Dr. Solomon is a senior staff member of both the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center and the Cardiovascular Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University and his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. After a residency at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he completed a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the NIH Clinical Center. He returned to UT Southwestern Medical Center to complete a second fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases. Subsequently, he joined the cardiology faculty of UT Southwestern specializing in caring for patients with advanced heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and those receiving a heart transplant. He returned to NIH in 2000, receiving a joint appointment in both the Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department and the Cardiovascular Branch of the NHLBI. He supervises clinical activities relating to the fields of critical care cardiology and pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Michael Solomon serves as the Vice-chair of the NIH Staff Clinician Council and the Chair of the NIH Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. He also serves as the Co-chair of the ACC Critical Care Cardiology Council. Dr. Solomon's research interests include endothelial cell dysfunction and inflammation in pulmonary arterial hypertension, methods of detection of cardiac allograft cellular rejection, and organizational structures and outcomes in the delivery of critical care cardiology.