Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
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Dear alumni and friends,
I am delighted to introduce the electronic edition of the University of Michigan Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine newsletter. We hope this new format will keep you better up to date with our latest news and initiatives.
This year
U.S. News & World Report
ranked our program #5 among the nation's leading hospitals for pulmonolgy. This ranking is both humbling and a tribute to the work and dedication of our world-class medical experts.
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Clinically, we have expanded our outpatient practices at the new
Michigan Medicine Brighton Center for Specialty Center
, which opened on September 4, and look forward to ongoing collaborations with our partners at Metro Health in Grand Rapids and MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland. In addition, we have also established three new clinical programs:
- Severe Asthma Clinic at the Northville Health Center, led by Njira Lugogo, MD
- Interventional Pulmonary Program, under the direction of Jose (Pepe) Cardenas-Garcia, MD
- Post ICU Longitudinal Survivor Experience Clinic (UM-PULSE), headed by Jakob McSparron, MD
For more information about our clinical programs,
click here
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Lastly, we are excited about the creation of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) Alumni Society in the near future. The society will give us the ability to stay connected to our alumni who have shaped our program since it was first created in 1928 and will be open to past fellows, faculty members, and graduate students. We are also planning a PCCM tailgate during the upcoming football season. Stay tuned for more details as they evolve.
We hope you will share your comments and suggestions with us, we would love to hear from you - email us at
UMpulmcriticalcare@umich.edu.
And,
visit our website
to learn more about our expansive research, patient care, and educational programs.
Go Blue!
Sincerely,
Chief, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
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2018 American Thoracic Society (ATS) Conference
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Michigan Medicine ATS Award Winners
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Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc,
received the 2018 ATS Assembly on Critical Care Early Career Achievement Award. This award is given to an individual who has made the most outstanding scientific contributions in clinical, translational, or laboratory-based research relevant to critical care early in their career.
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Yvonne Huang, MD,
received the 2018 ATS Assembly on Allergy, Immunology, and Inflammation Early Career Achievement Award. This award recognizes junior faculty with exemplary achievements in a scientific area of the AII Assembly, who demonstrates clear promise for a future of sustained productivity.
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Bethany Moore, PhD; Eric White, MD; Bob Hyzy, MD;
and
Jeff Horowitz, MD,
(pictured below from left to right)
were recognized as inaugural ATS Fellows. The ATS Fellow designation is a mark of distinction, conferring recognition on members for their accomplishments, dedication, and contributions to the Society as well as to the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine
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ATS Travel Awards and Scholarships
- Shanna Ashley, PhD, received the Minority Trainee Development Scholarship and Abstract Scholarship from the ATS Critical Care Assembly.
- Andy Admon, MD, received an Abstract Scholarship from the Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research.
- Wassim Labaki, MD, received an Abstract Scholarship from the Clinical Problems Assembly.
- Bonnie Wang, MD, and Dru Claar, MD, were selected to participate in the 2018 Fellows Track Symposium.
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Michigan Medicine 2018 ATS Reception
It was great to see former fellows and faculty members at Michigan Medicine's annual ATS reception.
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Save the Date
Please join us at Michigan Medicine's annual reception at the 2019 ATS Conference (May 17-22, 2019) in Dallas, Texas. We hope to see you there!
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Theodore (Jack) Iwashyna, MD, PhD,
is a Professor at the University of Michigan and a Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Research Core for the Veteran's Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System's Center for Clinical Management and Research (CCMR). He is also Faculty Associate for the Survey Research Center at U-M’s Institute for Social Research. A major focus of his work is the mentorship of young clinician-scientists. To that end, he co-directs the National Clinician Scholar Program at the University of Michigan (the successor of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars) and directs the NHLBI-funded K12 program in implementation science in the critically ill, which goes by its acronym of TACTICAL (Training to Advance Care Through Implementation Science in Cardiac and Lung Illnesses).
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Fundamentally, Dr. Iwashyna is interested in the understanding and improving the way patients and their families heal from critical illness. In order to do this, he coordinates a multifaceted research program. He has active studies of sepsis, acute respiratory distress, cardiac arrest, persistent critical illness, and responses to natural disasters. Dr. Iwashyna works on these problems with a range of social scientific and epidemiologic tools, from “Big Data” analyses, through clinical trials, through qualitative interviews. This range of work is possible in large part because of the superb set of mentees - many in pulmonary and critical care - with whom he is able to share this work.
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Dr. Iwashyna - VIDEO PROFILE
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This commitment to understanding how patients and families heal is rooted in his clinical work. Dr. Iwashyna serves as the attending physician at both the University Hospital Critical Care Medicine Unit, and the VA Ann Arbor’s Medical Intensive Care Unit. “Seeing the entire spectrum of critical illness - from community-acquired pneumonia and chronic lung disease to advanced transplant medicine - really keeps me grounded at the bedside. While I am incredibly proud of the care we provide, I regularly have to confront the fact that the state-of-the-art is just not good enough yet.”
Indeed, this has led Dr. Iwashyna to partner with other clinicians to invent better ways to help patients. With Dr. Hallie Prescott, he helped Dr. Jakob McSparron found the University of Michigan Post-ICU Longitudinal Survivor Experience (PULSE) Clinic - both Drs. Prescott and McSparron are also on the faculty at Michigan’s Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. The multiprofessional clinic sees patients shortly after hospital discharge and again six months later to try to prevent the many complications of sepsis and critical illness that Iwashyna and Prescott have discovered. In 2018, the PULSE Clinic was selected for its ground-breaking work as a
2018 Sepsis Hero
by the patient advocacy group, Sepsis Alliance.
Highlights of Dr. Iwashyna’s recent work include:
- Developing techniques to integrate reports by patients of how they are recovering into several national clinical trials in the United States and in Australia, helping to make sure that we learn how new therapies for acute lung failure change things other than just mortality.
- Leading two studies in the Department of Veterans Affairs that study how patients recover from cardiac arrest and identifying key best practices in helping hospitals provide full recovery.
- Characterizing, for the first time, the group of patients that get stuck in the ICU for days on end and leading an international team of collaborators to understand the physiologic basis of this persistent critical illness and develop interventions to correct it.
- Mentoring successful proposals for new career development awards by stellar clinician-scientists – Dr. Thomas Valley who seeks to improve ICU admission decision-making, Dr. Michael Sjoding who is researching new approaches in using computers to detect lung injury, and Dr. Sue Ann Bell whose expertise is in disaster response, community health, and emergency care.
As an exceptional clinician, an outstanding educator, and an internationally recognized investigator, Dr. Iwashyna's work has greatly impacted critical care medicine.
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Robert C. Hyzy, MD,
received the 2018 University of Michigan Medical School Dean's Award for Lifetime Achievement in Clinical Care.
The Dean’s Awards Program recognizes U-M Medical School faculty and staff who demonstrate exceptional accomplishment in the areas of teaching, research, clinical care, community service, innovation, and administration.
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Ivan Co, MD; Jeffrey Horowitz, MD; Michael Mendez, MD; Jakob McSparron, MD;
and
Helena Schotland, MD,
(pictured below from left to right)
have been elected to the University of Michigan Medical School's
League of Educational Excellence
.
The Academy recognizes and augments the educational rigor and innovation of its faculty, to promote faculty development in education and mentoring, foster the visibility of UMMS educational leadership nationally and internationally, and to mobilize these talents to improve educational outcomes.
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Margaret Gyetko, MD,
received the Rudi Ansbacher Leadership Award for Support of Women in Healthcare.
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MeiLan Han, MD, MS, received the Solovy Award for Advancement in COPD from the Respiratory Health Association.
The Solovy Award for Advancement in COPD recognizes innovation and continued progress in the prevention, treatment, and cure for COPD.
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Jack Iwashyna, MD, PhD,
was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), only one of four pulmonologists in 2018.
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Helena Schotland, MD
, and
Steven Gay, MD, MS
, were inducted into the University of Michigan Department of Internal Medicine's Clinical Excellence Society. The Society recognizes in an ongoing fashion, those faculty who, by their peers and their division, exude and demonstrate clinical excellence towards their patients and colleagues.
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A patient of
Richard Simon, MD,
recently recognized him through, Together Making Changes, the philanthropy arm of Therapy Management Corporation (TMC).
TMC provides assistance to various initiatives supported by TMC team members, residents, and patients. This year Michigan Medicine's Cystic Fibrosis Program, led by Dr. Simon, was chosen and received $7,846. TMC employees visited Michigan Medicine to meet Dr. Simon and learn about the advances being made in cystic fibrosis patient care and research.
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The division welcomed
Philip J. Choi, MD, MA,
to the team. Dr. Choi is the new Medical Director for the
Adult Assisted Ventilation Clinic
(
AVC
)
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Dr. Choi completed is BA in Linguistics at Harvard and received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He went on to complete his Internal Medicine Residency at Brown University and his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training at Duke University.
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The division welcomed
Jose “Pepe” Cardenas-Garcia, MD,
to the team.
Dr. Cardenas-Garcia is leading our new Interventional Pulmonary Program.
He is a highly skilled interventional pulmonologist from Penn State Hershey Medical Center where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery. He is originally from Peru, coming to the U.S. to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein. Dr. Cardenas-Garcia performed his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and an Interventional Fellowship at Harvard.
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Dr. McSparron has extensive training in medical education and is a graduate of the Academy at Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Medical Education Research and the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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In this role, Dr. Han will oversee all aspects of the program, including programmatic development and direction, clinical research infrastructure, recruitment, and philanthropic efforts to support programs and initiatives.
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Christine Basmajian, PhD,
was appointed Deputy Associate Chief of Staff - Research, at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
In this role, Dr. Basmajian will oversee research development and intramural and extramural grant processes as well as the coordination of responses to RFPs for research projects and research training. Christine has also assumed a greater mentorship role within the Pulmonary Section at the VA and the Division’s NIH-sponsored
T32 postdoctoral training grant
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Please join us in welcoming Carrie Brown, our new administrator for the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Before coming to the Pulmonary Division, Carrie served as the assistant division administrator for the Division of General Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Michigan Medicine. In this role, she assisted in overseeing an operation that includes 68 instructional, clinical and research track faculty, 110,000 outpatient visits at nine clinical sites and $4 million in annual sponsored research funding. She had direct oversight of the divisional finances as well as serving as the primary research administrator which required her to have extensive involvement with the leaders in her division and management of staff. Carrie has extensive knowledge of the University of Michigan systems and a passion for building strong working relationships that motivate and align her teams with established strategic goals.
Carrie received a Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting, from Eastern Michigan University, and is currently pursuing her Master of Business Administration from Eastern Michigan as well.
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As #5 in the nation for pulmonary care, we focus on respiratory disorders and critical illnesses including asthma, COPD, emphysema, and cystic fibrosis.
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Njira Lugogo, MD
, Director of the Michigan Medicine Asthma Program, explains why biologics are becoming a valuable option for some asthma patients.
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Jakob McSparron, MD,
is the Director of Michigan Medicine's new PULSE clinic, which aims to help intensive care unit patients receive proper follow-up care and prevent readmissions.
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NIH grant funding for research within the Division exceeds 13 million dollars annually. Our investigative portfolio is comprehensive, with specific areas of emphasis including pulmonary inflammation, lung injury and repair, fibrotic lung disorders, host defense, lung transplantation, and lung cancer.
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Robert Dickson, MD,
is lead author of a recent study that finds that bacteria in healthy lungs may play an important role in helping ward off disease.
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Michal Olszewski, DVM, PhD,
is the senior author of a mouse
study
that examined the fungus that causes cryptococcosis and its origin within the central nervous system. The work was published with an accompanying
commentary
in
mBio
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Marc Peters-Golden, MD,
and his team's research was recently p
ublished in the
Journal of Clinical Investigation
, looking at whether blocking a problematic gene known as FOXM1 could stop or slow the development of fibroblasts - highly activated cells that contribute to scar tissue production in fibrotic lung disease.
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Benjamin Singer, MD, PhD,
is the lead author of a study published in the
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
that examined the connection between gut bacteria and brain dysfunction in patients with sepsis.
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31st Annual Update in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Friday - Saturday, October 26-27, 2018
The Inn at St. John's, Plymouth, Michigan
Course Co-Directors
Target Audience
General Internists, pulmonologists, family physicians, intensivists, physician-in-training, and other allied health providers who deal with areas of pulmonary and critical care medicine will find this course of value in their daily practice.
For more information and to register,
click here
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The Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine is committed to caring for critically ill patients and patients with lung disease. This requires not only that we provide the best possible care, but that we convey these skills to trainees and develop novel approaches to understanding and managing these diseases through basic science, clinical, and outcomes research.
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University of Michigan
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
6220 MSRB III, SPC 5642
1150 West Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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