Faculty & Scientific Staff
Carmen Mikacenic, MD
Dr. Mikacenic is a member of BRI’s Center for Translational Immunology and a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the immune mechanisms that drive severe lung disease. She earned her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine, completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and pursued fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington. She also serves as a pulmonary physician at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.
Her research explores how the immune system responds to critical illness and chronic inflammatory lung diseases. One area of emphasis is acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition in which severe inflammation damages the lungs and impairs breathing. She also investigates immune responses in interstitial lung diseases, which often occur alongside autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory conditions such as sarcoidosis.
In addition to her research and clinical practice, Dr. Mikacenic serves as director of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Center of Excellence — Seattle. She is also a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington, with appointments in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Immunology, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
