Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine consists of 26 full-time faculty members. Research with extramural funding includes projects in acute and chronic lung rejection, control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, mechanisms of patient-ventilator interactions, using machine learning to predict outcomes of ARDS, sleep-disordered breathing, and exercise rehabilitation in COPD.
The division is highly specialized in advanced lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, sarcoidosis, cystic fibrosis, COPD, rare cystic lung diseases) and sleep disorders. The interstitial lung disease program is the largest program in the area and leads in the area of clinical trials availability and enrollment. It has been designated by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation as part of their Care Center Network since 2018. We have been designated as a Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Clinic by the LAM Foundation since 2010 and maintain the second largest such clinic in the country. Our site has been designated as one of only about 25 "Rare Lung Disease Consortium" sites, as recognized by the American Thoracic Society. The Lung Transplantation Program is one of the most active in the country.
Education
The fully-accredited and highly competitive three-year combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program has a total complement of 13 clinical fellows. It offers a comprehensive program of quality patient care, research and education.
Our program’s strength lies in the large and varied patient base, the variety of clinical experiences offered and a faculty dedicated to teaching. Our fellows are trained to be skilled clinician educators through intense clinical exposure and opportunities to teach residents and medical students.
Research
Areas of current research include:
- Mechanisms of weaning failure
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation
- Patient-ventilator interactions
- Respiratory muscle pathophysiology
- Sleep in the ICU
- Control of breathing
- Lung transplantation
- COPD rehabilitation
- Cystic fibrosis
- Medical Education
Faculty
Daniel Dilling, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM
Associate Professor
Sean Forsythe, MD
Professor
James Gagermeier, MD, ABIM
Associate Professor
Emily Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor
Amit Goyal, MD
Assistant Professor
Paul Hutchison, MA
Assistant Professor
Amal Jubran, MD
Professor
Ejaaz Kalimullah, MD
Assistant Professor
Sunita Kumar, MD, FCCP, FAASM
Associate Professor
Franco Laghi, MD, FCCP
Professor
Shruti Patel, MD
Assistant Professor
Sana Quddus, MD
Assistant Professor
Kevin Simpson, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor
Martin J. Tobin, MD
Professor
Nidhi Undevia, MD, DABSM, FAASM
Associate Professor
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine consists of 26 full-time faculty members. Research with extramural funding includes projects in acute and chronic lung rejection, control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, mechanisms of patient-ventilator interactions, using machine learning to predict outcomes of ARDS, sleep-disordered breathing, and exercise rehabilitation in COPD.
The division is highly specialized in advanced lung disease (pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, sarcoidosis, cystic fibrosis, COPD, rare cystic lung diseases) and sleep disorders. The interstitial lung disease program is the largest program in the area and leads in the area of clinical trials availability and enrollment. It has been designated by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation as part of their Care Center Network since 2018. We have been designated as a Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Clinic by the LAM Foundation since 2010 and maintain the second largest such clinic in the country. Our site has been designated as one of only about 25 "Rare Lung Disease Consortium" sites, as recognized by the American Thoracic Society. The Lung Transplantation Program is one of the most active in the country.
Education
The fully-accredited and highly competitive three-year combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program has a total complement of 13 clinical fellows. It offers a comprehensive program of quality patient care, research and education.
Our program’s strength lies in the large and varied patient base, the variety of clinical experiences offered and a faculty dedicated to teaching. Our fellows are trained to be skilled clinician educators through intense clinical exposure and opportunities to teach residents and medical students.
Research
Areas of current research include:
- Mechanisms of weaning failure
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation
- Patient-ventilator interactions
- Respiratory muscle pathophysiology
- Sleep in the ICU
- Control of breathing
- Lung transplantation
- COPD rehabilitation
- Cystic fibrosis
- Medical Education