News and Announcements

12 Faculty Members Voted "Best Doctors in America"

Our physicians are consistently listed in Best Doctors in America and are leaders in providing state-of-the-art treatments and the best care.  The Best Doctors in America list is considered an important and prestigious tool to consumers for selecting a doctor.  The survey, compiled using peer-review-based evaluations, includes physicians in primary care and specialty areas such as cardiology, pulmonary, surgery and pediatrics.  Only physicians who earn the consensus support of their peers are included in the list.  This year, the following physicians in the division were listed in Best Doctors in America:

Emory University Hospital

Rabih Bechara, MD -Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Interventional Pulmonology

Clinton Lawrence, MD – Professor of Medicine

Director, McKelvey Lung Transplantation Center

Jeffrey Pine, MD – Associate Professor of Medicine

Alan Plummer, MD – Professor of Medicine

David Schulman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Section Chief and Fellowship Program Director

Grady Memorial Hospital

Eric Honig – Professor of Medicine

Gregory Martin – Assistant Professor

Section Chief and Medical Director of MICU

Crawford Long Hospital

Kenneth Leeper, MD – Associate Professor of Medicine

Director, MICU

Gerald Staton, MD – Professor of Medicine

Director, Chronic Ventilator Unit at Wesley Woods

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

David Guidot, MD – Professor of Medicine

Associate Director for Research and Director, Alcohol and Lung Biology Center

Michael Hart, MD – Professor of Medicine

Section Chief and Associate Division Director for Education

Jesse Roman, MD – Professor of Medicine

Division Director and Director of Emory Center for Respiratory Health

Greg Martin and Rafael Perez receive top Department of Medicine Awards

The faculty of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine received two distinguished awards from the annual Emory University Department of Medicine ceremony celebrating excellence in the Department.    Dr. Gregory Martin received a faculty research award for outstanding research citiation (clinical) for a paper he published in Critical Care Medicine entitled "The Role of Infection and Co-morbidity:  Factors that Influence Disparities in Sepsis" and Dr. Rafael Perez received a faculty service award for his work at the VA Medical Center for developing the pulmonary rehabilitation program and as Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program of the Emory Center for Respiratory Health.

Alvaro Velasquez receives Golden Apple Award - June 2007

Dr. Velasquez has received a Golden Apple Award given for the best teacher department-wide and represents one of the highest honors bestowed by housestaff for excellent in medical education.

Jesse Roman named Director of Emory Center for Respiratory Health

Dr. Roman was recently named Director of the Emory Center for Respiratory Health, one of five centers of excellence representing areas in which the Woodruff Health Sciences Center aspires to be a national leader within five years. 

Kenneth Brigham leads Predictive Health Initiative

The new Center for Health Discovery and Well-Being is slated to open in the near future in the Medical Office Tower located at Emory Crawford Long Hospital.   This center will collect medical and lifestyle history and the results of some 50 blood and plasma tests in order to prescribe a personalized health program designed to address individual risks.   This new center  marks an opportunity for the University to take its strategic focus on predictive health to one of our most important constituencies:   our patients.

Two Division Members win Dean's Teaching Award  for 2007

The 2007 SOM Teaching Awards Committee recently awarded 11 awards to faculty that were nominated by colleagues and students.  Drs. C. Michael Hart and Fernando Holguin rwere awarded these awards in our Division.  These awards were selected after the Committee reviewed noination letters and assessed their teaching portfolios and contributions to medical student teaching.

Pulmonary DIvision Honors for 2006 Presented

At the recent Roland H. Ingram, Jr. dinner, the Division celebrated accomplishments of several of its outstanding faculty.  Dr. Micah Fisher was presented with the Fellows' Teaching Award, while Drs. Srinivas Bhadriraju and David Schulman shared the Pulmonary Star Award, for their contributions to the ongoing clinical development of the Emory and Crawford Long Hospital sections.

Dr. David Schulman Named Program Director for Fellowship Training

Dr. Schulman has served as the Associate Program Director and the Chief of the Emory University Hospital Section for two years.  He has previously been awarded the Fellows' Teaching Award and a Golden Apple Award for Teaching from the residents of the Department of Medicine.

ILD Center Awarded NIH Grant

The Emory Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Center, headed by Doctor Jesse Roman, has recently been awarded a grant as one of the NIH-supported Clinical Research Centers in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). The ILD Center opened its doors in the Fall of 2002 with only a handful of patients.  Since then we have seen hundreds of patients and have diagnosed and treated all types of interstitial lung diseases.  This year we introduced one of our Pulmonary fellows, Bassel Ramadan, MD, into the group to train specifically in clinical research. 

The ILD Center has three afternoon clinics a week, monthly educational conferences, and a pulmonary fibrosis support group for patients and their families.  We have just completed an investigational study with the use of Enbrel to treat IPF.  Our Center is currently enrolling IPF patients in a study using interferon gamma and we anticipate future studies for the treatment of IPF and other institial lung diseases.  If you would like more information about our center or have a patient you would like to refer, please call 404-727-6821 or check out our website at www.medicine.emory.edu/pullm/ILD