Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
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Dear Alumni and Friends,
Happy New Year from the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. We bring to close a year highlighted by many exciting developments. Thank you for your interest in what we are doing.
We have expanded many of our clinical programs to offer multidisciplinary care to our patients. This ensures all patient issues are addressed, often in a single visit:
- Our Multidisciplinary Severe Asthma Program continues to expand. Under the direction of Dr. Njira Lugogo, we partner with U-M allergy specialists and otolaryngologists to offer a coordinated patient care and education program.
- Our Interventional Pulmonology Program, led by Dr. Jose De Cardenas, performs state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to manage patients with complex airway and pleural diseases.
- Our Assisted Ventilation Clinic partners with providers from Respiratory Therapy, Neurology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation to provide comprehensive care for patients requiring some form of assisted ventilation. The clinic is under the direction of Dr. Philip Choi and currently cares for more than 1000 patients with chronic respiratory failure.
For more information about our clinical programs,
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We are excited to announce Michigan Medicine's new 12-story
adult inpatient hospital,
which will be built adjacent to the Frankel Cardiovascular Center on the University Hospital medical campus in Ann Arbor.
When completed in the fall of 2024, the hospital will offer:
- 264 private rooms capable of converting to intensive care
- a state-of-the-art neurological and neurosurgical center
- high-level specialty care services for cardiovascular and thoracic patients, along with advanced imaging
Locating these services together will allow healthcare providers to quickly respond to complex cases and will provide more access to care for adult patients, where current hospital facilities often operate at more than 90 percent capacity.
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Save the date for our Michigan Medicine Reception at this year's
ATS Conference
in Philadelphia on May 19. Details will be sent soon. We hope to see you there.
Please share your comments and suggestions with us, we would love to hear from you - email us at
UMpulmcriticalcare@umich.edu
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And,
visit our website
to learn more about our expansive research, patient care, and educational programs.
Sincerely,
Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
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The Joseph P. Lynch III Endowed Fellowship Fund
This past summer we launched the Joseph P. Lynch III Endowed Fellowship fund. The fund provides support for fellowship activities, including support for travel and participation in scientific meetings and other educational activities. The ultimate goal is to reach $500,000 for fellowship support. Given the importance of funding for these vital fellowship functions, the division has been providing a 1:1 match for donations up to $100,000. Currently, we have raised $282,000 towards the goal of $500,000. Please consider supporting to help reach our goal! To give, please
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As always, we are very grateful for your ongoing support. If you have questions regarding this fund or how to contribute, please contact our development partner, Andrea LaFave at (734) 763-6173 or at
ajlafave@umich.edu
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Kevin Chan, MD comments on the success of his patient's lung reduction surgery caused by emphysema.
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MeiLan Han, MD, MS comments on the different incubation periods for bronchitis and how they can differ depending on the cause.
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Wassim Labaki, MD comments on the possibility of whether air conditioning can make someone sick
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Wassim Labaki, MD comments on the potential health risks caused by e-cigarettes and how they may create nicotine dependencies.
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Thomas Sisson, MD comments on the benefits of exercise in patients with cystic fibrosis
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Thomas Valley, MD, MSc finds the ICU is the right option for some patients after a severe heart attack.
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Steven Huang, MD finds that lung stiffness and the scarring characteristic of IPF may be linked to environmental gene alterations.
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Kevin Flaherty, MD, MS comments on the value that the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry brings to pulmonary fibrosis research.
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Jintao Xu, PhD and Michal Olszewski, DVM, PhD identify a previously unknown function of a specific type of immune cell called dendritic cells.
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Douglas Arenberg, MD finds that many lung cancer patients in the U.S. received no or less intensive treatment than recommended.
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Ivan Co, MD
won the Michigan Medicine Department of Internal Medicine H. Marvin Pollard Award for Outstanding Teaching of Residents.
John Osterholzer, MD
was selected to partner with VA investigators at several other institutions around the country to form the Post-Deployment Cardio-Pulmonary Network (PDCEN). This network has been assembled to identify Veterans who may have deployment-related lung injury and arrange for them to undergo comprehensive, multi-disciplinary clinical evaluations. PDCEN investigators will utilize the
Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
to identify Veterans who may have deployment-related lung injury and arrange for them to undergo comprehensive, multi-disciplinary clinical evaluations.
Rommel Sagana, MD
was elected to the Michigan Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Clinical Excellence Society.
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Jeffrey Curtis Selected to Receive the John B. Barnwell Award
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Jeffrey Curtis, MD
has been selected to receive the
John B. Barnwell Award
- the
Clinical Science Research and Development's (CSR&D) highest honor for outstanding achievements in clinical science research within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The award aims to recognize senior Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital investigators who have achieved international acclaim for clinical research accomplishments in areas of prime importance to VA's research mission and who have also demonstrated a high level of clinical commitment to the patient population.
Dr. Curtis was previously chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Section at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System where he was the scientific director of a Research Enhancement Award Program center in tobacco-induced lung diseases. He has held leadership roles in multiple COPD clinical trials, including the ongoing SPIROMICS and COPDGene® studies. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine and past-chair of the American Thoracic Scientific Assembly on Allergy, Immunology & Inflammation, from which he received a lifetime scientific achievement award in 2019.
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Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna Named Alpheus W. Tucker, MD, Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine
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Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna, MD
has been named the Alpheus J. Tucker Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Iwashyna is a medical intensivist and member of the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Clinical Management Research at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs HSR&D Center of Excellence.
Alpheus Tucker was one of the first African-Americans to seek medical training at the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, he was not allowed to complete his training at Michigan. This Provost Professorship honors his extreme perseverance in obtaining a medical degree, and the impact Dr. Tucker had after completing medical training.
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Richard Simon to Receive Outstanding Clinician Award from American Thoracic Society
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Dr. Simon has been a member of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division since 1981. He is a highly skilled clinician with broad clinical expertise including lung physiology, pulmonary immunity, and critical care. However, Dr. Simon's greatest impact has been providing care for patients with cystic fibrosis. He has built and has continued to serve as the Director of the Adult CF program at Michigan and the PI of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF)-sponsored Cystic Fibrosis Center grant. This center is one of the top centers nationally, caring for 350 adult CF patients and serving as a valuable referral site for patients throughout the state and region. Dick is the leading authority in the clinical care of CF patients nationally, as best evident by his writing of the
Up-To-Date
chapter on adult CF care on an annual basis.
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- Bethany More, PhD appointed as interim chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
- Kevin Chan, MD named vice chair for Clinical Experience & Quality for the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Chan will facilitate the development, improvement and oversight of programs and initiatives designed to enhance the clinical experience and quality of patient care.
- Jakob McSparron, MD will be appointed as director of the PCCM Fellowship Program, effective February 1, 2020. Dr. McSparron has served as associate director of the Fellowship Program since his arrival at Michigan in 2017, previously serving in a similar role at Harvard.
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Home Mechanical Ventilation: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Friday, September 25, 2020
The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, Michigan
32nd Annual Update in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Friday - Saturday, November 13-14, 2020
The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, Michigan
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Michigan Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
6220 MSRB III, SPC 5642
1150 West Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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