2021 Virtual Annual Conference 

 

SPEAKER BIOS

March 3-5, 2021
Virtual Conference


 

SPEAKER PHOTO SPEAKER BIO
  Rosemary Adamson, MBBS
University of Washington


Rosemary Adamson, MBBS is the Associate Section Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and Associate Program Director of the PCCM Fellowship at the University of Washington. Her professional passions are providing excellent healthcare, improving medical education and attending to healthcare provider wellness. Her personal passions include raising her two children and outdoor exercise.
 

Doreen J. Addrizzo-Harris, MD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine


Doreen J. Addrizzo-Harris, MD is a Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. She completed her medical degree and fellowship training at NYU School of Medicine and joined the faculty in 1996. She has served as Program Director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship since 2001. She has grown the fellowship to over 27 fellows over the last 20 years. Dr. Addrizzo-Harris served as Interim Director of the NYU Langone Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in 2014, and now is the Associate Division Director for Clinical and Faculty Affairs. She is Co-director of the Faculty Group Practice which comprises more than 20 physicians. In addition to her love for medical education, Dr. Addrizzo-Harris is Co-director of the NYU Bronchiectasis Center and specializes in non-CF bronchiectasis and the treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease. She is PI of the NYU Bronchiectasis Registry and PI for the US Bronchiectasis Research Registry as well as numerous clinical trials.

Dr. Addrizzo-Harris is involved at the national level and has held many leadership roles at CHEST. She is currently the President-Designate of the American College of Chest Physicians and is a member of the CHEST Board of Regents. She is the past President of the CHEST Foundation and the immediate Past Chair of the Professional Standards Committee. In the past she served as Program Director of the Annual meeting in 2012 in Atlanta and Chair of the Guidelines Oversight Committee for CHEST. She is also very involved with the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors and served on its Board for more than 10 years as the President and Secretary-Treasurer.

  J. Shirine Allam, MD
Emory University


J. Shirine Allam, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Emory University. She completed her undergraduate and medical school education at the American University of Beirut, followed by Internal Medicine training at Emory University. She completed her fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, followed by a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Stanford University. 

She joined the Emory faculty in 2009 and is based at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. She has held multiple leadership positions including medical director of the bronchoscopy services at the VA, medical director of the CPAP clinic and of the Home Sleep Testing Program. In addition, she has been actively involved in the leadership of the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program since 2012 and is currently the fellowship program director.

Dr. Allam served on several committees in national/international professional organizations, has been a regular speaker at the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) annual meetings and has developed online learning tools in interstitial lung diseases in collaboration with CHEST. 

Dr. Allam currently practices pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center where she also supervises medical students, residents and fellows. Her expertise and clinical interest are in Sleep Medicine and Interstitial Lung Diseases.

When she is not working, Dr. Allam enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 boys, hiking, paddle boarding and biking. She also enjoys cooking, particularly Lebanese food.
  Asha Anandaiah, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center


Asha Anandaiah, MD is the Program Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. Her clinical interests encompass general pulmonary and critical care medicine, and her academic interests lie in optimizing how we teach communication and collaboration in the intensive care unit.

Paul A. Bergl, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin


Paul A. Bergl, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago, and critical care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

In addition to practicing as a medical intensivist, Dr. Bergl is highly involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education including serving as the medicine sub-internship director, running a diagnostic reasoning curriculum for internal medicine residents, and leading the development of critical care echocardiography rotations for pulmonary-critical care fellows. His primary scholarly interests include the intersection of clinical reasoning and diagnostic error, the appropriateness of point-of-care echocardiography, and bedside teaching.

 

Gabriel T. Bosslet MD, MA
Indiana University


Gabriel T. Bosslet, MD, MA is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine at Indiana University and an affiliate faculty member at the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. In addition, he is an Assistant Dean in the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, and is the Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.


Dr. Bosslet completed his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Indiana University, where he was chief fellow in his final year of training. During this time, he completed the Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, and a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Bioethics.

Dr. Bosslet’s academic interests also include selection criteria for postgraduate medical education and remediation programs for struggling learners.
 

Anna K. Brady, MD
Oregon Health & Science University


Anna K. Brady, MD completed her undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University and medical school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, followed by residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She moved to the Northwest for pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Washington, where she also completed the Teaching Scholars Program. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, OR. At OHSU she is an Associate Program Director for the PCCM fellowship, core faculty for the internal medicine residency, and is active in medical school education as well. She serves on the American Thoracic Society's (ATS) Training Committee, where she has been heavily involved in the Innovations in Fellowship Education program and the ATS Resident Bootcamp. Her scholarly interests within education include procedural teaching and curriculum evaluation.

  Wade Brown, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center


Wade Brown, MD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He attended Pepperdine University as an undergraduate and received his MD at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA. He completed his internal medicine residency as well as a Chief Residency in Quality and Safety (CRQS) through the University of Utah Health Science Center and the VA National Center for Patient Safety. His research focuses on identifying barriers to (and strategies for) implementing modern learning science practices in graduate medical education for the benefit of trainees, faculty, and patients.
  Kristin M. Burkart, MD, MSc
Columbia University Medical Center


Kristin M Burkart, MD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship since July 2011. Dr. Burkart earned her medical degree at Albany Medical College, where she was named to Alpha Omega Alpha; she completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where she was honored to be selected as chief medical resident for an additional year. Dr. Burkart completed her fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine during which time she also earned her Master of Science in Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Burkart is respected nationally as a leader in fellowship training and education. She is the Secretary-Treasurer and a Past President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors, an organization whose mission is to provide leadership and support for pulmonary and critical care training programs across the country. As the Chair of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Training Committee Dr. Burkart is actively involved in trainee education at the national level. This committee provides strategic guidance for ATS on issues related to clinical and research training in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Burkart is dedicated to providing an educational and research environment for her fellows that fosters their development into compassionate and exceptional physicians, clinician-educators, and physician-investigator.
  Hugo Carmona, MD
University of Washington


Hugo Carmona, MD is currently a third-year fellow at the University of Washington Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine program. He is the clinician-educator fellow in his cohort and is currently involved in research on professional development at the graduate medical education level. His teaching interests include bedside procedural teaching and mechanical ventilation. He has served in the role of fellow-in-training for the Board of Directors of APCCMPD since 2019. He was previously a resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
  Dru Claar, MD
University of Michigan


Dru Claar, MD University of Michigan Dru Claar, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, residency in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Dr. Claar is the Associate Program Director for the University of Michigan Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program and the Medical ICU Director at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
  Başak Çoruh, MD
University of Washington


Başak Çoruh, MD is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program at the University of Washington. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed residency, chief residency, and fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Çoruh serves on the Education Committees of the American Thoracic Society and the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors and is active in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education both locally and nationally. Her interests in medical education include curriculum development, coaching, and leadership.

Sanjay Desai, MD
Johns Hopkins University


Sanjay Desai, MD is the Myron L. Weisfeldt Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Osler Medical Residency and Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an accomplished educator, researcher, and administrator with appointments in Pulmonary and Critical Care, General Internal Medicine, as well as with the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.

Dr. Desai focuses his research on building an evidence base for graduate medical education (GME), believing strongly that high-quality data are required to inform policy and practice. He chairs the Executive Committee of the iCOMPARE study group whose outcomes on duty hours in GME were recently published in a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine. This research influenced national policies by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is also Principal Investigator for an American Medical Association Reimagining Residency grant. This effort establishes a multi-institutional laboratory measuring how to optimize clinical skill and well-being in graduate medical education.

Dr. Desai grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science in bioengineering and a bachelor of economics from the Wharton School of Business in healthcare management. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and subspecialty fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he also served as a Chief Resident. During his training, he spent two years as a consultant for McKinsey & Company working in a variety of industries in the US and in Southeast Asia. Dr. Desai lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and twin boys.
 

Henry Fessler, MD
Johns Hopkins University


Hank Fessler, MD is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he has directed the PCCM Fellowship for 15 years. He also directs the M1-M2 Genes-to-Society integrated medicine course in the School of Medicine, and served as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education from 2014-2018. He is the recipient of Outstanding Educator lifetime achievement awards from the APCCMPD and from the ATS and is a past-chair of the ATS Section on Medical Education and past-president of the APCCMPD. During his tenure as Program Director for 150 current and former fellows, he added Global Health and Medical Education Research tracks to the fellowship.

 

Emilie K. Foltz, MBA
University of South Florida

Emilie K. Foltz, MBA has been an engaged member of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Workshop for seven years, she has served as chair twice and this is her seventh year presenting.

She is serving as the Division Administrator for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of South Florida; overseeing two fellowship programs, clinical operations and research.  She previously served at the Academic Administrator, and has been with the Division for over seven years.  Prior to accepting this position in 2013, she spent three years coordinating Continuing Medical Education programs at the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation with the University of South Florid

In 2010 she received her Master of Business Administration from the University of South Florida Saint Petersburg, during which time she completed an internship in Healthcare Management at the James Heart Center of Bayfront Health Saint Petersburg.

While pursuing her master’s degree, she served as a graduate research assistant in Institutional Research, working towards the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools official and independent accreditation of the University of South Florida Saint Petersburg.

 

Barbara Gohre, BSHCA, C-TAGME
University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix


Barbara Gohre, BSHCA, C-TAGME is Program Administrator for the Internal Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. She earned a Bachelor’s in Healthcare Administration (BSHCA) certification and is certified in Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education (C-TAGME).

Her areas of interest include diversity, health equity and inclusion, physician and house staff wellness, program administrators' professional development, as well as program administrators' wellness. She is active on several University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix committees including the Program Administrators' Advocacy Committee, Physician Wellness Committee, Program Administrators' Wellness Committee, Diversity, Health Equity and Inclusion Committee.

 

Andrea J. Hadcock, C-TAGME
Upstate Medical University


Andrea J. Hadcock, C-TAGME is Fellowship Coordinator at Upstate Medical University. She is the current Chair of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee and Chapter Administrator, New York State Thoracic Society (NYSTS).

  Candice J. Hankins
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Candice J. Hankins is the Program Manager for the Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine, and Interventional Pulmonary Medicine Fellowship Programs at the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute. She has been an employee of Cleveland Clinic Health System for 21 years. Prior to accepting the position in the Respiratory Institute, she worked as a Research Coordinator in Experimental Therapeutics, as well as a Fellowship Education Coordinator in Neurology.
  Adam B. Hill, MD

Indiana University

Adam B. Hill, MD is an Associate Professor of pediatrics and Division Chief of pediatric palliative care at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Hill is a graduate of Butler University for his undergraduate work and Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSOM). He completed his pediatric residency training at St. Louis University, a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Duke University and a palliative medicine fellowship at Indiana University. His work in palliative care is focused on allowing patients to live the best quality of life possible in the midst of chronic, life-limiting and/or life-threatening medical conditions. In addition, he works with colleagues on debriefing clinical work to decrease caregiver distress by finding meaning and purpose in the work and is the founder/director of Compassion Rounds at Riley Hospital for Children, a town hall humanities-based forum to process human emotions in healthcare.

Dr. Hill has a passion for international medical work, with opportunities to work in Kenya, Belize, Mexico and Tanzania over the past decade. Dr. Hill also serves as the medical director for Camp Little Red Door, a week long full immersion summer camp for children/siblings living with cancer.

Finally, Dr. Hill is passionate about physician wellness and self-care in the context of changing the culture of medicine surrounding mental health conditions and addiction. In 2017, Dr. Hill published a groundbreaking New England Journal of Medicine articled titled “Breaking the Stigma: A Physician’s Perspective on Self-Care and Recovery." In this article and his lectures, Dr. Hill shares his own story of personal recovery from depression and substance use. As a result, Dr. Hill has become a national and internationally recognized lecturer on the topic, including a book publication with Central Recovery Press entitled “Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope and Recovery,” which was released December 2019.
 

Van K. Holden, MD
University of Maryland


Van K. Holden, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is an interventional pulmonologist within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In addition, she is the Program Director of the PCCM fellowship program. Dr. Holden specializes in minimally invasive methods of diagnosing and staging lung cancer, central airway obstruction and pleural disease. She also has strong interests in medical education and teaching.

 

Sugeet Jagpal, MD
Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine


Sugeet Jagpal, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. As a clinician-educator, she is co-directing the fourth-year medical students Critical Care Selective at Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. She is also involved in the residency morbidity and mortality conference, and chairs the ICU morbidity and mortality subcommittee. Her clinical interests are in general pulmonary and critical care medicine and bronchiectasis.

 

Meshell Johnson, MD
University of California San Francisco


Meshell Johnson, MD is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Her clinical home is the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where she serves as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine. Her clinical focus is caring for patients in the ICU and her research focus is improving our understanding of the role of alveolar type I cells in lung injury. She is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and is the inaugural Associate Chief of DEI for the Department of Medicine.

 

Elvina Khusainova, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


Elvina Khusainova, MD, is Associate Program Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She is a pulmonologist who provides comprehensive evaluation and care for patients with a variety of lung conditions, with a focus on pulmonary complications related to cancer and its treatments. Her clinical interests include pulmonary disorders in immunocompromised patients, pulmonary complications associated with BMT, chemotherapy-induced lung injury, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, interstitial lung diseases and respiratory failure. She is proud to be a part of the inpatient multidisciplinary SACU team caring for patients with respiratory failure requiring ventilatory support, with focus on optimization of respiratory status and liberation from mechanical ventilation.

 

May M. Lee, MD
University of Southern California


May M. Lee, MD is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine. She is the Fellowship Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program since July 2018 and is also the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit as well as the Service Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep services at the Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center and in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, she was the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Training Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Lee earned her medical degree from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. She went on to complete her Internal Medicine residency, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and Post-Doctoral Research program at the University of Chicago. Dr. Lee’s clinical interests are in critical care medicine as well as medical education.

Dr. Lee has long been active as an educator both in and out of medicine; from teaching at an outdoor adventure-based program for “at-risk” youth, to developing new curriculum for 6th-graders, to her roles as both Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Program Director. She is active in Pulmonary and Critical Care society committees, working on curriculum building and educational programming on local, regional, and national levels.

 

Kimberly D. Manning, MD, FACP
Emory University School of Medicine


Kimberly D. Manning, MD is a general internist/hospitalist who serves as Associate Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Manning is Professor of Medicine and additionally serves as residency program director for the Transitional Year Residency Program at Emory. Beyond her roles in the Department of Medicine, she has been a society small group advisor at Emory since their curriculum reform in 2007. Dr. Manning continues to hold this position and currently co-leads the Semmelweis Society—one of the four academic houses in the medical school.

Dr. Manning’s academic achievements include numerous institutional, regional and national teaching awards. She has a strong passion for building and strengthening diverse clinical learning environments as well as cultivating psychologically safe learning climates. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage To Teach Award—given to only nine Program Directors across all ACGME training programs in the US. At Emory, she has received the Evangeline Papageorge Award, The Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Juha P. Kokko Teaching Award—the highest teaching awards in the School of Medicine, Grady Hospital, and Emory’s Internal Medicine Residency Program, respectively. She additionally is Arnold P. Gold Foundation Trustee and also on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

The Inglewood, California native is a proud alumnus of two historically Black colleges—both Tuskegee University and Meharry Medical College—and is a happily married mother of two teenaged sons. She applies her lived experiences as a Black woman, mother, daughter, wife, and community member to all that she does professionally.

 

Marin McCutcheon, MD, MPH
Oregon Health and Science University


Marin McCutcheon, MD, MPH obtained her medical degree and Master of Public Health in tropical medicine at Tulane’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles at Olive View, where she was chosen to serve as Chief Resident. She is currently continuing her training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. Her scholarly interests include medical education with a focus on curriculum implementation and remediation for struggling learners.

 

Abdelaziz Mohamed, MD
Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center

Abdelaziz Mohamed, MD is currently a PCCM fellow, Clinical Educator track, at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center. He gained valuable experience working as a teaching assistant after graduating medical school, University of Medical Sciences & Technology, Khartoum, Sudan from 2010-2012. He has won several Teaching Honor Roll awards by the Wayne State University School of Medicine students, was a member of the Detroit Medical Center Resident Council from 2015-2019, and served as their Vice President in 2019-2020.  He currently serves on the APCCMPD’s Fellows Workgroup.

 

Mary Anne Morgan, MD
University of Rochester


Mary Anne Morgan, MD graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 2002 before returning to her roots in Rochester, NY to complete residency and fellowship at the University of Rochester (Internal Medicine, 2005; Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine 2008). She was fortunate to join a fantastic group of educators and researchers on faculty upon graduation, becoming first the Associate Director and then the Director of the PCCM Fellowship. Academic interests include medical education at all levels, exploring patient-physician and physician-physician communication, the root of diagnostic error, and mentoring and leadership. She practices in the ICU, in the inpatient setting in a consultative role, and enjoys a busy outpatient pulmonary practice, with a specific focus on the management of lymphangioleiomyomatosis and other rare lung diseases. She has a hard time giving anything up!

 

Bart Moulton, MD
Oregon Health & Science University


Bart Moulton, MD received his MD from the University of Washington in 2005. He went on to complete his residency in 2008 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and his fellowship in 2012 at OHSU. He is currently the Program Director for PCCM and CCM fellowships at OHSU along with being actively involved in undergraduate medical education.

 

Nicholas Nassikas, MD
Brown University

Nicholas Nassikas, MD is a fellow in the Brown University Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Fellowship program. His primary research interest is in the health effects of climate change. Dr. Nassikas has worked with the Rhode Island Department of Health as Public Health Scholar to develop educational material with the Climate Change and Health Program. He has also worked with US Environmental Protection Agency on studying the health impacts of air pollutants in collaboration with the Brown University School of Public Health.

Dr. Nassikas attended Colby College, after which he began work as a research assistant in rheumatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He attended medical school at Brown University Alpert Medical School and completed his residency there in internal medicine. 

 

Max O'Donnell, MD, MPH
Columbia University Medical Center


Max O’Donnell, MD, MPH went to medical school and received his MPH from Tufts University; internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian; fellowship at Boston University. He was faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine prior to coming to Columbia University where he has a coappointment in the Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. O'Donnell's research interests center around global health including tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and severe acute respiratory infections. Current research is centered in South Africa and Uganda with training/education and capacity building work in Ethiopia.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is an important global public health concern because of increasing incidence, low cure rates, and high reported mortality. Nowhere has this increased incidence generated more concern than in South Africa where interactions between TB and generalized HIV/AIDS epidemics are causing explosive increases in TB incidence and TB case-fatality rates. The most drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), is increasingly prevalent in South Africa.

Acute respiratory infections continue to be responsible for approximately 3.9 million deaths worldwide, predominantly in children, without a substantial decrease in estimated mortality over the past 2 decades. In addition, outbreaks of emergent viral respiratory infections with pandemic potential and periodic outbreaks of severe acute respiratory infection caused by vaccine-preventable pathogens continue to threaten global health security 

 

Olivia Podolsky, MBA
New York University


Olivia Podolsky, MBA is Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training Program Coordinator at New York University.

 

Meredith Pugh, MD, MSCI
Vanderbilt University Medical Center


Meredith Pugh, MD, MSCI earned her medical degree at VCU School of Medicine and then completed residency and Chief Residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care and a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Pugh is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Pugh’s academic focus is medical education, and she directs several courses in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and is engaged in curriculum development, simulation and procedural training for medical residents and pulmonary fellows. Dr. Pugh’s clinical focus is in pulmonary vascular disease and critical care medicine.

 

Kathryn S. Robinett, MD
Columbia University Medical Center


Kathryn S. Robinett, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine. She graduated from University of Maryland School of Medicine, did her internal medicine training at UNC Chapel Hill, and went back to Maryland for her pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship. She currently specializes in the treatment of severe asthma, is the Assistant Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Dean for Medical School Admissions. 

 

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd
University of California San Francisco


Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, and on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has clinic in the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and physician faculty lead of the multidisciplinary post-COVID OPTIMAL Clinic at UCSF Health. 

She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. She gives clinical lectures to students, residents and fellows as well as interprofessional team members. Her primary interests in medical educational research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership development, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty education career choice.

 

David Schulman, MD, MPH
Emory University


David A. Schulman, MD, MPH, is a pulmonologist and sleep medicine physician with an extensive background in education and educational administration. He is Professor in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta. For 14 years, he directed their pulmonary and critical care fellowship program, but recently stepped down to take on the role of Director of the School of Medicine’s preclinical foundations curriculum. His primary area of academic interest is on faculty development and research in the domains of teaching effectiveness and assessment.

Dr. Schulman has been the recipient of numerous institutional teaching awards, including the Fellows Teaching Award from the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Emory, two Golden Apple Awards for Teaching from the Emory Internal Medicine Residency program, and the Dean’s Teaching Award from the School of Medicine. Extramurally, his work in education has been recognized with a Fellowship Innovation Award from the American Thoracic Society, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD), and the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He has previously served as President of the Southeast Thoracic Association (2011-2014) and the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (2013-2014). Dr. Schulman is the recipient of the 2020 CHEST Master Clinician Educator Award and has received the Distinguished CHEST Educator designation each year since its inception in 2017. Dr. Schulman currently serves as President-Elect of the American College of CHEST Physicians. He previously served as Chair of the CHEST 2018 Scientific Program Committee where he focused on crafting novel, interactive programming with the aim of improving attendee engagement and knowledge retention, as well as Program Chair of the 2019 CHEST Congress in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Rupal Shah, MD
University of California San Francisco


Rupal J. Shah, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine. She is the co-Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program. She specializes in care of patients with advanced lung disease, both before and after lung transplantation. She has been active in promoting gender equity at the Division, Department, and Campus level, and has a leadership role to promote faculty experience in the Division.

Dr. Shah received her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan, and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from University of Pennsylvania. She completed medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine and did her internal medicine residency at Columbia University and advanced training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at University of Pennsylvania. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.

 

Parvati Singh, MS, MD
Brown University

Parvati Singh, MS, MD received her MD from New York Medical College and completed her internal medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center. She is currently in her second year of critical care fellowship at Brown University in Providence, RI.

 

Amik Sodhi, MD
University of Tennessee


Amik Sodhi, MD is a practicing Pulmonary/Critical Care faculty member at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Her research interests include diagnosis and management of patients with Interstitial Lung Disease, Sarcoidosis and other granulomatous diseases. She is currently the Program Director for the PCCM fellowship program at UTHSC. Dr. Sodhi is involved in national and international educational projects and has extensive teaching experience.

 

Nancy H. Stewart, DO, MS
University of Kansas Medical Center


Nancy H. Stewart, DO, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sleep Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She completed research training in Hospital Medicine Research and Medical Education, as well as clinical training in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. She also has a Master’s in Public Health Studies from University of Chicago. She has received research funding from The University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and The CHEST Foundation. Dr. Stewart is passionate about improving the learning environment for trainees along the full spectrum of training, UME to fellowship. Dr. Stewart's clinical research explores the overlap of sleep disorders in patients with lung disease, specifically improving health care and outcomes of patients.

 

Geneva Tatem, MD
Wayne State University


Geneva Tatem, MD is the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital. She is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and is the Associate Division Head of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine for Henry Ford Health System.

Dr. Tatem received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at Cornell University and earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She completed her internship in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago and then went on to complete residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Henry Ford Hospital. She joined the faculty at Henry Ford Hospital in 2007. 

Dr. Tatem has an academic interest in the use of behavior-based interviews as part of a standardized process for equitable recruitment in pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship training programs. She serves on the Pulmonary Specialty Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is the Vice-President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and an active member of the National Medical Association.

 

Gretchen R. Winter, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham


Gretchen R. Winter, MD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She completed a medicine-pediatrics residency at Indiana University and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. Her clinical interests are in cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and critical care medicine. Research interests include patient-physician communication, medical education, and physician wellness. Her philosophy of care is to partner with patients to improve their physical health while also building therapeutic relationships.