2024 TNP OF THE YEAR
LUKE MAHAN
Luke works in the department of Internal Medicine in the Lung Transplant program at UT Southwestern and has since his graduation in 2014. His focus is the outpatient management of patients with advanced lung disease referred for consideration of lung transplant as well as posttransplant care. This program is one of the largest lung transplant programs in North Texas. He follows over 400 patients in the lung transplant clinic and is the first one to evaluate the most complex patients with advanced lung disease in the lung transplant clinic.
As a member of a tertiary care center he is integral to assessing transplant candidacy and care of advanced lung disease. He is involved in the decision-making, transplant evaluation, review of the evaluation, and presentation of patient cases to the lung transplant selection committee. Daily he provides medical management, review of labs, and is the liaison between faculty and the rest of the transplant team. Luke leads by example, serving on multiple committees within and outside the University. He has served in the selection of lung transplant programs, quality assurance and performance improvement, and APP research committees. Over the past two years, he has served as co-chair of the Advanced Practice Providers Research, QI, and Evidence-Based Committee.
Luke excels at his in his clinical responsibilities as well as a clinical researcher. He serves in numerous roles as a nurse practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher for the lung transplant population.
His research focus is posttransplant viral infections, including SARS-Covid 19, and his research has been published as a lead author in top lung transplant journals. He has have been a coinvestigator on several multicenter clinical trials including treatments for progressive bronchiolitis obliterans.
He enjoys lecturing and teaching and has spoken at multiple national and one international conferences in his field, including at the Chest for three years as well as the Boston meeting of the American Transplant Congress in 2022. In addition, he has presented at annual meetings of the American Academy of Chest Physicians, and he is a fellow with that group earning the designation of FCCP. Luke regularly teaches lectures at the university level regarding infectious disease, pre lung transplant and post-transplant considerations, as well as respiratory viruses in post- lung transplant patients in the UT Southwestern Transplant Seminar and Solid Organ Transplant Conferences.
Luke has demonstrated excellence as an NP role model with her leadership and service to her community, NP Profession, and our great State of Texas.
