Fellowship Program Contact
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Program Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Program Overview
The Jane & Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute and the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia house an outstanding fellowship program in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. This program has a long-standing tradition of excellence and a reputation for graduating superior clinicians, outstanding educators, and innovative researchers. The program is supported by the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, established in 1824, and is one of the largest private medical colleges in the United States.
Armed with a new partnership with National Jewish Health (Denver), new facilities, a growing faculty and staff, new research space, and expanding training opportunities, we aim not only to prepare qualified individuals as proficient clinicians with critical rigor, but to tailor training to fit candidate needs to ensure success in any career path of their choice. We understand medicine will not advance without discovery through research, and this justifies our renewed interest in providing trainees exposure to a strong clinical trials enterprise and translational research experiences to enhance scholarship and chances for success in academia. Accordingly, fellows will be trained to critically review scientific literature as well as design and execute clinical and/or translational research.
By the end of the training period, fellows will be skilled in:
- Team-based and patient-centered care
- Managing difficult pulmonary diseases and general critical care problems
- Performing complex bronchoscopy and related procedures
- Critical care procedures and ultrasound
- Conducting clinical trials or basic science research
This is a three-year program (with optional additional years for research) leading to eligibility for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. The majority of the training experience is at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and its University Hospital, which is located in Center City Philadelphia.
This highly flexible program enables individuals to achieve his or her personal training goals while fulfilling requirements for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. The division claims 100% pass rate for graduating fellows in both ABIM pulmonary and critical care medicine. The first 12 months are devoted primarily to clinical training, with time divided between pulmonary medicine, medical and surgical critical care, chest radiology, anesthesia and the pulmonary function lab.
The remaining requirements for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care are arranged to suit individual training goals throughout the second and third years. A number of elective clinical rotations focusing on specialized areas of interest in pulmonary medicine and critical care are also offered. Our division offers multidisciplinary research training opportunities in several areas of lung biology ranging from the study of lung development and aging to acute and chronic lung injury, while emphasizing disease modeling, genetic engineering, metabolic interventions. Specific features of the clinical training program and the research training program are available. It is emphasized that the training experience is designed to help the trainee develop a scholarly approach to clinical problems and to laboratory or clinical investigation. Acceptance into the fellowship training program is very competitive, with over 500 applicants for five slots per year.
Current Fellows
Third Year Fellows
Vincent Chan, MD
Elie Fares, MD
Mary Kathryn Hurst, DO
Mark Mallozzi, MD
Lindsey Morris, MD
Second Year Fellows
Timothy Crisci, MD
Jesse Johnson, MD
Christopher Missak, DO
Vani Mulkareddy, MD
Christopher O'Hara, MD
First Year Fellows
Ibukun Fakunle, MD
Abdul Kazi, MD
Nathaniel Rosal, DO
Saikou Saidy, MD
Courtney Townshend, MD
Jose Zabala Genovez, MD (Critical Care Only)
Fellowship Alumni
| Name | Current Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Biblowitz, MD | 2021-2022 | Christiana Medical Center, Christiana, DE |
| Ryan Commins, MD | 2021-2022 | Medstar Health, Columbia, MD |
| Matthew Flamenbaum, DO | 2021-2022 | University of Albany, Albany, NY |
| Zak Hindi, MD | 2021-2022 | Parallon - Nashville Shared Services, Nashville, TN |
| Aaron Kaye, MD | 2021-2021 | Allina Health Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| Richard Loynd, DO | 2021-2022 | TPQVO Health System, Chattanooga, TN |
| Brandon Menachem, MD | 2021-2022 | Pulmonary Hypertension Fellowship at Duke University Hospital |
| Rakhshanda Akram, MD | 2020-2021 | Abingon Jefferson, Philadelphia, PA |
| Brian Chwiecko, MD | 2020-2021 | Reading Hospital, Reading, PA |
| Alan Gandler, MD | 2020-2021 | Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia PA |
| Daniel Kramer, MD | 2020-2021 | Thomas Jefferson Univ Hospital, Philadelphia, PA |
| Pooja Pandit, MD | 2020-2021 | Private Practice, Washington DC |
| Mrinalini Venkata Subramani, MD | 2020-2021 | Cleveland Clinic, Transplant Fellowship |
| Edgar Guzman-Suarez, MD | 2019-2020 | Palmdale Regional Medical Center, Pulmdale, CA |
| Robert Hilton, MD | 2017-2020 | Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center |
| Phue Khaing, MD | 2017-2020 | George Washington Medical Center |
| Christopher McGrath, MD | 2017-2020 | Thomas Jefferson Univ Hospital |
| Carl Nieweld, MD | 2017-2020 | Geisinger Health System |
| Hassan Shahid, MD | 2017-2020 | Day Kimball Hospital |
| Justin Herman, MD | 2016-2019 | Reading Hospital |
| Ena Gupta, MD | 2016-2019 | Albert Einstein Medical Center |
| John Madara, MD | 2016-2019 | Abington Medical Center |
| Michael Lake, MD | 2016-2019 | Abington Medical Center |
| Dina Khateeb, MD | 2016-2019 | Mt. Sinai Medical Center – Palliative Care Fellowship |
| Gautam George, MD | 2015-2018 | Full-time Faculty, Thomas Jefferson Univ Hosp, Philadelphia, PA |
| Christoph Hutchinson, MD | 2015-2018 | Internventional Pulmonary Fellowship, UPENN Philadelphia, PA |
| Mitchell Jacobs, MD | 2015-2018 | Private Practice, Ben Salem, PA |
| Yanhong Zhang, MD, PhD | 2015-2018 | Pulmonologist, Crozer Chester, PA |