Brandon Lu, MD
Instructor of Neurology and Medicine

710 North Lake Shore Dr, Abbott 523
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 503-1526

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Dr. Lu obtained his MD at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1999 and moved to the Chicago area. He completed Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Loyola University in Maywood, IL in 2005. He further pursued a combined clinical and research fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University and has been on faculty in the Departments of Neurology and Medicine since 2007. Dr. Lu treats sleep disorders in clinic and attends on the inpatient peri-operative sleep-disordered breathing service. He also serves as a pulmonary consultant at the Lois Insolia ALS clinic.

Dr. Lu is interested in studying the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythm, and cardiopulmonary diseases. From a translational perspective, he is using physiological and molecular techniques to determine the contribution of the circadian system in nocturnal asthma. On a population level Dr. Lu is a co-investigator on a NIH-funded study examining the mechanisms linking short sleep duration and obesity in Chinese adolescent twins. He is also active in a project examining the relationship between early-life cardiovascular risk factors and late-life sleep quality and sleep disorders using the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry cohort. Dr. Lu is a recent graduate of the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation program at Northwestern University.

• Melissa J. Spencer, Brandon Lu, James G. Tidball. “Calpain II expression is increased by changes in mechanical loading of muscle in vivo.” Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 1997;64:55-66.
• Patricia Choban, Brandon Lu, Louis Flancbaum. “Insurance Decisions About Obesity Surgery: A New Type of Randomization?” Obesity Surgery 2000;10(6):553-556.
• Brandon S Lu, Sangeeta M Bhorade. “Lung Transplantation for Interstitial Lung Disease.” Clinics in Chest Medicine 2004;25(4):773-782.
• Brandon Lu, Rohit Budhiraja, Sairam Parthasarathy. “Sedating medications and undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea: physician determinants and patient consequences.” Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2005;1(4):367-371.
• Brandon S Lu, Andrew D Yu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Edward R Garrity Jr, Wickii T Vigneswaran, Sangeeta M Bhorade. “Sequential gene expression profiling in lung transplant recipients with chronic rejection.” Chest. 2006;130(3):847-854.
• Brandon S Lu, Edward R Garrity, Jr, Sangeeta M Bhorade. “Immunosuppressive Drugs: Cyclosporine,Tacrolimus, Sirolimus, Azathioprine, Mycophenolate Mofetil, and Corticosteroids.” In: Lynch JP III and RossDJ, eds. Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis, 2006.
• Brandon S Lu, Phyllis C Zee. “Sleep Loss and the Risk for Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome.” Medscape Current Perspectives in Insomnia, Volume 8. 2006. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/525729
• Brandon S Lu, Prasanth Manthena, Phyllis C Zee. “Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders.” In: Avidan AY and Zee PC, eds. Handbook of Sleep medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
• Brandon S Lu, Phyllis C Zee. “Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders.” Chest 2006;130(6):1915-1923.
• Brandon Lu. “New-onset insomnia in a middle aged woman.” Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2007;3(1):83-84.
• Yunxian Yu*, Brandon S Lu*, Binyan Wang, Hongjian Wang, Jianhua Yang, Zhiping Li, Liuliu Wang, Xue Liu, Genfu Tang, Honxun Xing, Xiping Xu, Phyllis C Zee, Xiaobin Wang. “Short sleep duration and adiposity in Chinese adolescents.” Accepted for publication. Journal Sleep.