Faculty
Activity Director
Francisco A. Almeida, MD, MS, FCCP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Fibrosing Mediastinitis Program
Quality Director, Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonary
Leader for Quality Improvement, Thoracic Oncology Program
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Activity Co-Directors
Thomas Gildea, MD, MS, FACP, FCCP
Head, Section of Bronchoscopy
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Atul C. Mehta, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine
Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Special Guest Faculty
Roberto Casal, MD
Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Christopher Di Felice, MD
Director, Interventional Pulmonology
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH
Andrew Dunatchik, MD
Interventional Pulmonology Attending Physician, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH
Viviane Rossi Figueiredo, MD
Technical Director, Division of Respiratory Endoscopy
Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Danai Khemasuwan, MD, MBA, FCCP, ATSF
Program Director, Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Benjamin Young, MD
Director, Interventional Pulmonology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Basem Abdelmalak, MD, FASA
Director, Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery
Department of General Anesthesiology
Jorge Ataucuri Vargas, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Marcela Azevedo, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Bryan Benn, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Colin Gillespie, MD
Director, Central Campus Interventional Pulmonary Medicine
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Sangita Goel, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Hussein Hussein, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Louis Lam, MD
Director, Lung Nodule Program
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Michael Machuzak, MD, FCCP
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP
Director, Lung Cancer Program
Editor-in-Chief, CHEST
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Abdelaziz Mohamed, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Kaitlyn Ooms, MD
Department of Pathology
Manuel Ribeiro, MD
Director, Sarcoidosis Program
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Ivan Romero-Legro, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Grant Senyei, MD
Interventional Pulmonary Medicine Fellow
Andrew Zura, MD
Department of General Anesthesiology
Planning Committee
Sharon Baker, BSN
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Allison Revay, RN
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Lauren Hamed, MSN
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Steven Hoffman, RRT
Respiratory Therapy
Dawn Sisko, RRT
Respiratory Therapy
Stephanie Clement, PA-C
Department of Pulmonary Medicine