Professor Emerita of Pediatrics

Dr. Beth L. Laube is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her specialty is pulmonary medicine.

Dr. Laube is an aerosol scientist whose research involves in vivo and in vitro quantification of the deposition and removal of particles in healthy and diseased lungs and noses using radiolabeled aerosols and scintigraphic imaging assessments.

She attended Lake Forest College and received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Laube served as president of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine from 2003 to 2005. She also served on the advisory committee to the World Health Organization Product Development Group for the Aerosolized Measles Vaccine Project and on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Animal Models for Testing Interventions Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents.

She is a member of the American Thoracic Society and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Aerosol Medicine. Dr. Laube is a frequent advisor to pre-doctoral candidates and post-doctoral fellows at the Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Maryland and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles.

Research Interests

• Aerosol Drug Deilvery
• Cystic fibrosis
• Mucociliary Clearance
• Pulmonary Medicine