Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Faculty

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Andreea Anton,MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2005

Clinical Interests

• Sleep Disorders
• Interstitial Lung Diseases
• COPD
• General Diseases Pulmonary

Research Interests

• Systemic effects of COPD
• Sleep disorders in patients with COPD

 

V. Theodore Barnett, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2004
 

Clinical Interests

• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmoary Hypertension
• End-of-Life Care

Research Interest

• Cultural issues in Critical Care

• Global Health 

   

Julie A. Biller, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
Appointed, 1991

Clinical Interests

• Pulmonary medicine

• Adult cystic fibrosis 

   

Valerie Bonne, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2007 

 

Stephen Dolan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 1998

Clinical Interests

• Interstitial lung disease 

• Lung cancer

• Critical care medicine

• Lung transplantation

• Telemedicine and eICU

   

Marshall B. Dunning III, PhD, MS 
Professor of Medicine & Physiology
Technical Director, Pulmonary Diagnostic Laboratory
Appointed, 1990

Clinical Interests

• Exercise stress testing

• Pulmonary physiology, testing and care

• Sleep apnea

   

Research Interests

• Carbon monoxide production from the breakdown of inhalational anesthetics during their passage through dessicated carbon dioxide absorbents.  

• Cigarette smoking prior to surgery and its effect on ST segment depression during general anesthesia.

Ileen Gilbert, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Medical College of Wisconsin's Asthma and Obstructive Lung Disease Program

Clinical Interests

• Asthma

• Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

• Smoking Cessation

   

Research Interests

• Approaches to medical education

• High risk factors in asthma and COPD

• Epidemiology and pathophysiology of Asthma and COPD

• Effects of parent education on clinical outcomes in asthma and COPD
   

Joseph Hine, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2005

Clinical Interests

• Telemedicine 

• Pulmonary infections in the immune-compromised host

• Sepsis / septic shock

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

   

Research Interests

• Quality metrics in the intensive care unit

• Severe Sepsis

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) 

   

Elizabeth R. Jacobs, MD
Professor and Chief
Director, Pulmonary Research Training Program
Appointed, 1989

Clinical Interests

• Critical care

• Severe Sepsis

• Coordination of translational studies

   

Research Interests

• Our investigations center on the role of endogenous lipid modulators of pulmonary vascular and airway tone.

• We use a wide variety of techniques,  including whole organ studies (isolated perfused lungs or arterial and bronchial rings) to immunospecific protein identification, identification and quantitation of lipid metabolites of arachidonic acid, patch clamping for studies of ion channels in plasma membranes, cell signaling experiments (including fluorescent probe tracking of free intracellular ions such as calcium), and identification and sequencing of mRNA coding for proteins that catalyze the formation of biologically active lipid metabolites.

   

• General pulmonary medicine

• Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections

• Venous thromboembolic disease

• Lung cancer

• Interstitial Lung Disease

   

Research Interests

• Helical CT scanning for diagnosis of thromboembolic disease.

   

• General Pulmonary Medicine

• Sleep Medicine

• Critical Care Medicine

   

Rahul Nanchal, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2005

• Critical Care Medicine

• Acute Lung Injury/ARDS

• Sepsis/Septic Shock

• Multiple Organs System Failure

   

• Acute Lung Injury

• ARDS Sepsis

• Septic Shock

   

William O'Neill, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 1998

Clinical Interests

• Critical care medicine

• Pulmonary medicine

• Sleep disorders

   

 Kenneth W. Presberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Appointed, 1990

Clinical Interests

• Pulmonary hypertension

• Critical care medicine

• General pulmonary medicine

• Lung transplantation

   

Research Interests

• Pulmonary hypertension.

• Pulmonary circulation: microhemodynamics and regulation of vasomotor tone.

• Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease in immunocompromised hosts.

   

Linus H. Santo Tomas, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2002

Clinical Interests

• General pulmonary medicine

• Critical care medicine

• Inpatient medical care

• Occupational lung disease

   

Reseach Interests

• Obstructive lung diseases

• Pulmonary complications in hemotapoietic stem cell transplan recipients

• Improving process of care in transitions between the ICU and the medical ward 
   

Ralph M. Schapira, MD
Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair
Chief of Medicine, VAMC
Appointed, 1990

Clinical Interests

• Telemedicine

• Pulmonary embolism

• Pulmonary medicine

• Pulmonary mycoses

• Pulmonary physiology

• Respiratory emergencies

Research Interests

• Comparison of "face to face" visits with delivery of care via telemedicine.

• Medical education.

   

Dr. Francisco J. Soto is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program and he is also a Diplomate of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He has a strong interest in research which led him to complete a Masters of Science in Epidemiology (focused on clinical research) at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2005. He has expertise in the evaluation and care of all pulmonary diseases but presently focuses his care in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary vascular disease, both idiopathic and secondary to other causes such as collagen vascular disease, interstitial lung disease, left heart disease and others. Many of the patients seen in his clinic are evaluated for dyspnea that can not be explained by other underlying conditions.

• Pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease
• Chronic Thromboembolic Disease
• Unexplained DyspneaCardiopulmonary diseases secondary to Sleep disorders

 

Research Interests

• Hemodynamic changes resulting from pathological cardiopulmonary interactive
• Diagnosis and management of pulmonary venous hypertension secondary to left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
• Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in collagen vascular disease
• Serum markers for diagnosis, management and prognosis of patients with pulmonary hypertension
• Sleep disordered breathing and its effects on the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems
• Multi-center trials to evaluate and develop new therapies for pulmonary hypertension

 

Rade Tomic, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Appointed, 2007

 

 

Basil Varkey, MD
Professor of Medicine
Pulminary and Critical Care
Appointed, 1972

Clinical Interests

 

• Pulmonary mycoses: aspergillosis, blastomycosis

• Asthma 

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

• Pleural diseases

• Sarcoidosis

• Palliative medicine and end-of-life care

 

Research Interests

• Pharmacotherapy of obstructive airway diseases

• Improving palliative care through education

 

Wendy Zouras, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Appointed, 2006

Clinical Interests

• General Pulmonary Medicine
• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonary Hypertension 

 

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