40 under 40 – 2017 winners

Carmen Mikacenic

Carmen Mikacenic
Seattle Washington.
Asst Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

University of Washington Hospital. Dr. Mikacenic in her current role, takes care of patients with interstitial lung diseases and those who are critically ill in the intensive care unit. She is still actively involved in biomedical research, focused on understanding how common genetic changes affect immune responses in lung disease and critical disease. She was summa cum laude in BioChemistry at Tufts University.

She went on to University of Washington School of Medicine for medical school and had internal medicine training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard hospital. Dr. Mikacenic has won multiple medical honors, grants, fellowships and professional awards. Carmen’s younger sister Nancy is pictured on the left.

Her University of Washington Hospital laboratory is focused on the pathways of critical illness which leads to an inflammatory reaction and to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. She hopes to secure more National Institute of Health funding soon and for possible collaboration with some Croatian academics with similar research. She is a proud Croatian with a “Zagreb” license plate and long time connection to CroatiaFest, the annual Croatian heritage festival in Seattle.

She is an active member of the Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) and with the organization’s Health Sciences section. As a college student, she was an All-NESCAC Academic Team Member, Soccer (1999) while at Tufts. Family from Zagreb and Susak, Croatia.

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