Ehab Billatos MD
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 638-4860ebillato@bu.edu
ehab.billatos@bmc.org
Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Centers
Pulmonary Center
Biography
Dr. Billatos is the Principal Investigator for the DECAMP consortium (Detection of Early Cancer Among Military Personnel) which aims to improve the early diagnosis of lung cancer via biomarker validation and development from minimally invasive specimens. This is a multi-center trial sponsored by the Department of Defense, the National Cancer Institute, Johnson and Johnson, and Novartis pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Billatos also serves in several clinical roles including the Director of Inpatient Pulmonary Clinical Services, the Director of the Pleural Disease Service, and the Assistant Director of Bronchoscopy at Boston University Medical Center.
Education
Medicine, MD, University of Texas at Austin
Microbiology, BS, University of Texas at Austin
Publications
Souery W, Wong J, Diaz AA, Xu K, Xiao X, Liu H, Liu G, Gower AC, Alekseyev YO, Billatos E, Lenburg ME. Validation of bronchial airway gene expression associated with bronchiectasis in nasal epithelium. ERJ Open Res. 2026 May; 12(3). PMID: 42094231.
Published on 4/8/2026Xu L, Kefella Y, Zhang Y, Conrad RD, Anderson KE, Krysan K, Liu G, Kane E, Pennycuick A, Merrick DT, Janes SM, Reid ME, Burks EJ, Billatos E, Mazzilli SA, Kolachalama VB, Beane JE. Attention-based deep learning for analysis of pathology images and gene expression data in lung squamous premalignant lesions. Genome Med. 2026 Apr 08; 18(1). PMID: 41952176.
Published on 2/1/2026Souery WN, Billatos E, Elalami R, San José Estépar R, Cho MH, Diaz AA, Lenburg ME. Mucus plugs-associated gene expression identifies pathophysiology shared with chronic bronchitis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2026 Feb 01; 212(2):253-267. PMID: 41072469.
Published on 1/18/2026Xi ZH, Koga Y, McDermott S, Kane EE, Pfefferkorn R, Billatos E, Hosking PR, Beane JE, Burks EJ, Mazzilli SA, Suzuki K, Campbell JD. Multimodal single-cell and spatial profiling reveals altered T cell-mediated immunity and B-cell follicular architecture in non-metastatic lymph nodes of patients with aggressive non-small cell lung cancer. medRxiv. 2026 Jan 18. PMID: 41646724.
Published on 6/12/2025Xu L, Kefella Y, Zhang Y, Conrad RD, Anderson KE, Krysan K, Liu G, Kane E, Pennycuick A, Janes SM, Reid ME, Burks EJ, Billatos E, Mazzilli SA, Kolachalama VB, Beane JE. Attention-based deep learning for analysis of pathology images and gene expression data in lung squamous premalignant lesions. medRxiv. 2025 Jun 12. PMID: 40585088.
Published on 3/25/2025Van Lewen D, Lu Y, Juliá-Wise F, Vasowalla A, Wu C, Yeo J, Billatos E, Russo S. A Real-Time, Semi-Autonomous Navigation Platform for Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy. IEEE Robot Autom Lett. 2025 May; 10(5):4722-4729. PMID: 40969572.
Published on 11/27/2024Smyth R, Billatos E. Novel Strategies for Lung Cancer Interventional Diagnostics. J Clin Med. 2024 Nov 27; 13(23). PMID: 39685665.
Published on 8/26/2024Xiao D, Kammer MN, Chen H, Woodhouse P, Sandler KL, Baron AE, Wilson DO, Billatos E, Pu J, Maldonado F, Deppen SA, Grogan EL. Assessing the transportability of radiomic models for lung cancer diagnosis: commercial vs. open-source feature extractors. Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2024 Aug 31; 13(8):1907-1917. PMID: 39263016.
Published on 11/25/2023Mettler SK, Nath HP, Grumley S, Orejas JL, Dolliver WR, Nardelli P, Yen AC, Kligerman SJ, Jacobs K, Manapragada PP, Abozeed M, Aziz MU, Zahid M, Ahmed AN, Terry NL, Elalami R, Estépar RSJ, Sonavane S, Billatos E, Wang W, Estépar RSJ, Richards JB, Cho MH, Diaz AA. Silent Airway Mucus Plugs in COPD and Clinical Implications. Chest. 2024 Nov; 166(5):1010-1019. PMID: 38013161.
Published on 10/10/2023Menon AA, Lee M, Ke X, Putman RK, Hino T, Rose JA, Duan F, Ash SY, Cho MH, O'Connor GT, Dupuis J, Hatabu H, Lenburg ME, Billatos ES, Hunninghake GM. Bronchial epithelial gene expression and interstitial lung abnormalities. Respir Res. 2023 Oct 10; 24(1):245. PMID: 37817229.