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Dr. Anoop M. Nambiar is an Associate Professor of Medicine and founding director of the Center for Interstitial Lung Disease at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. Born and raised in New Jersey, he attended college at Rutgers University, medical school at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, internal medicine residency and completed pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2009. Following a locum tenens year in New Zealand, he joined the faculty at UT Health San Antonio in 2010. Over the past eight years, Dr. Nambiar’s clinical and research efforts include: the first dedicated ILD/IPF clinic at UT Health San Antonio in 2011; development of a fortnightly multidisciplinary ILD/IPF conference in 2014; active past and present research program with involvement in a number of important multicenter investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials; and community outreach as medical director of the San Antonio PF Support Group with a semi-annual “Free ILD Clinic,” the only one of its kind. These initiatives served as the foundation for the center’s selection as a PFF Care Center Network Site in 2015.