Donald A. Mahler

Donald A. Mahler, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH. Presently, he works as a pulmonary physician and is Director of Respiratory Services at Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont, NH. In collaboration with the late Alvin Feinstein, MD, Dr. Mahler developed the baseline and transition dyspnea indexes. These questionnaires have been used in pharmaceutical trials to assess the effects of various medications approved for treatment of COPD - Spiriva™, Advair™, Turdoza™, Daliresp™, Arcapta™, Ultibro™, Anoro™, and Striverdi™. Dr. Mahler has written and/or co-edited four books on Dyspnea (the medical word for breathing difficulty). The most recent book was written/edited in collaboartion with Dr. Denis O'Donnell of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was published by CRC Press in January 2014.