Professional Education
Fellowship Program in Adult Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care
Overview
Since 1970, the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has offered subspeciality training in pulmonary disease to physicians with a minimum of three years of formal postgraduate education. In the late 1980's, the program was expanded to incorporate additional training in critical care medicine.
Fellowships of three years duration provide clinical and research experiences in one of two optional areas of emphasis. The first option allows the Fellow to learn clinical pulmonary medicine while obtaining additional training in critical care. Fellows whose career aspirations extend to research or academic medicine are encouraged to select the second option, which provides the same training in clinical pulmonary medicine, but also incorporates greater experience in research.
In both pathways, clinical training is emphasized during the first year utilizing facilities of the University Medical Center and Southern Arizona VA Health Care System. Exposure to more chronically ill pulmonary and ventilator-dependent patients is provided at Kindred Hospital, a long-term acute care facility. Full-time rotations in the pulmonary function laboratory, on the adult and pediatric pulmonary consultation services, in the sleep disorders laboratory, and in the critical care units are provided.
For those Fellows who choose an emphasis in critical care medicine, there are additional rotations in the critical care units, and selective rotations on cardiology, renal, infectious disease and anesthesiology services. Throughout their fellowship, Fellows also deliver continuing care in the ambulatory chest clinics at both institutions.
During this first year, the physiologic assessment of pulmonary disease is stressed through both clinical experience and formal seminars. Fellows who choose an emphasis in critical care will continue to have clinical rotations during a large portion of their second year with the remaining time in the second and third years devoted to participating in a research project.
Fellows who choose a research emphasis will be given the opportunity to engage in respiratory research beginning in their second year. They may design individual clinical or laboratory research projects in collaboration with a faculty preceptor or become a participant in a current or ongoing investigation. Preceptors may be drawn from the Adult or Pediatric Pulmonary or Critical Care staff, or from other disciplines in the Center such as basic immunology, pharmacology, radiology, pathology, epidemiology, anatomy, and physiology.
The fellowship begins with an intensive course in respiratory physiology, introduction to subspecialty procedures and techniques and an overview of pulmonology and critical care medicine before Fellows embark on clinical activities. Among the formal teaching sessions of the Arizona Respiratory Center and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section are weekly medical?surgical Pulmonary Critical Care Case conferences, daily intensive care rounds, research seminars, and pulmonary and critical care seminar/lecture series, and bi?weekly sleep medicine case conferences. The Fellows prepare presentations on appropriate topics for the weekly pulmonary and critical care seminars/lecture series. There are also weekly conferences covering research methodology, respiratory physiology, and epidemiology. An active continuing education program also brings members of the Center into contact with physicians throughout the state.
Financial Support
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Faculty of Adult Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Section
Stuart F. Quan, MD, Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology. Associate Head of Department of Medicine. Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section. Director, Sleep Disorders Center. Chairman, Fellowship Committee. Clinical Interests: sleep disorders; critical care medicine. Research Interests: epidemiology of sleep disorders; and sleep related breathing disorders.
Marilyn Halonen, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology and Research Professor of Medicine. Research Interests: immunological, physiological and cellular mechanisms of IgE_induced allergic reactions and bronchial hyperresponsiveness; molecular characterization of receptors for allergic mediators; development of immune system function in infancy.
Charles W. Otto, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Professor of Medicine. Clinical Interests: critical care medicine. Research Interests: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
John W. Bloom, MD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine. Clinical Interests: critical care medicine. Research Interests: molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid action; gene regulation in airway epithelial cells; eosinophil apoptosis.
Sammy Campbell, MD, Professor of Medicine. Chief, Pulmonary Section, Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System. Clinical Interests: asthma. Research Interests: measurement of ventilatory drive; efficacy of bronchodilators.
Philip S. Eichling, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. Clinical Interests: sleep disorders. Research Interests: sleep disorders, cardiovascular health, and weight management.
Michael P. Habib, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Director of Medicine and Sub specialities. Member, Fellowship Committee. Clinical Interests: critical care medicine. Research Interests: free radical lung injury in isolated perfused lungs; measurement of the work of breathing. Exhaled hydrocarbons Infection Pulmonary Disease.
Duane L. Sherrill, PhD, Professor of Medicine. Research Interests: respiratory epidemiology and control mechanisms; exercise physiology; mathematical modeling of functional lung growth.
Linda Snyder, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Director, St. Luke’s Clinic. Clinical Interests: pulmonary infections; coccidioidomycosis; critical care medicine. Research Interests: obstructive airway diseases; coccidioidomycosis.
Steve R. Knoper, MD, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine. Member, Fellowship Committee. Clinical Interests: lung transplantation; laser bronchoscopy; critical care medicine. Research Interests: glucocorticoid receptor function and characterization.
Wei Shen, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. Clinical Interests: critical care medicine; hemodynamic monitoring and intervention; patient ventilator interaction. Research Interests: sleep related breathing disorders and their potential implications to other aspects of medicine.
Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine. Clinical Interests: sleep disorders; critical care medicine. Research Interests: Sleep during critically illness, mechanical ventilation, patient-ventilator interactions.
Rohit Budhiraja, MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary & Critical Care Section. Clinical Interests: Pulmonary Hypertension. Research Interests: Epidemiology and cardiovascular effects of sleep disordered breathing.
Laura Ruth, MD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. Clinical Interests: pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Robert A. Barbee, MD, Professor of Medicine. Emertius. Clinical Interests: asthma; coccidioidomycosis. Research Interests: epidemiology of airways obstructive disease; bronchoalveolar lavage; clinical immunology especially related to coccidioidomycosis.
Gayle Traver, RN, MSN, Pulmonary Clinical Nurse Specialist, Associate Professor Emeritus of Nursing and Clinical Assistant Professor Medicine. Clinical Interests: obstructive airway diseases. Research Interests: Chronic Ventilatory Failure, Pulmonary Manifestations of Neurological Diseases.
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