Michael Scharf, MD

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925 Chestnut Street
Mezzanine
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-5161
(215) 923-6003 (fax)

Medical School
New York Medical College - 1986

Residency
Montefiore Medical Center, New York

Fellowship
Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
Temple University Hospital

Board Certification
Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
Internal Medicine

Hospital Appointment
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

University Appointment
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, 2009

Research and Clinical Interests
Dr. Michael Scharf joined Thomas Jefferson's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in February 2009 as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. After graduating from New York Medical College, he completed his internal medicine residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York and fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Hospital. After fellowship, he joined the pulmonary medicine staff at the Deborah Heart & Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey, where he served as director of the pulmonary function lab and the library and continuing education committee and founded and directed their pulmonary hypertension program.

At Jefferson, he serves as the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program and one full day weekly, evaluates patients for pulmonary hypertension at the Jefferson Heart Institute. His patients receive PAH-specific medicines under his direction, including parenteral and inhaled prostacyclins and oral therapies. His research interests include exercise assessment in PAH, evaluation of sleep disorders in PAH, and right heart dysfunction in sickle cell patients. He is the principal investigator in industry-sponsored various PAH-related trials and registries. Dr. Scharf also evaluates and treats patients with general pulmonary issues and serves as the medical director of the Jefferson University Physicians' pulmonary outpatient practice.

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Evaluation and management of chronic pulmonary thromboembolic disease.
2. Complete tracheal duplication in an adult with thoracic aortic coarctation