Department of Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

The Division covers a variety of general pulmonary, sleep, and subspecialty clinics across the state of Rhode Island.

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Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

The Division covers a variety of general pulmonary, sleep, and subspecialty clinics across the state of Rhode Island.

Overview

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and its affiliated teaching hospitals offer a 3-year training program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The medical school faculty of over 40 full time hospital-based Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep clinicians and scholars provide a broad and diverse environment for clinical education and research training. Three hospitals participate in the clinical program: Rhode Island Hospital, the Providence VA Medical Center, and The Miriam Hospital. Research training may be hospital based or conducted on the University campus. Four fellowship positions are offered each year for training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Additional years for research training via a T-32 grant are encouraged to appropriate candidates who wish to pursue an academic career in Pulmonary Medicine. Positions for the fellowship are filled through the National Resident Matching Program for Pulmonary Diseases.

The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare board eligible or certified internists for a career in clinical and/or academic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In all aspects of the educational program, the fellow is encouraged to develop an attitude of scholarship and the intellectual curiosity to remain in the informational forefront of the discipline throughout a career. Training is carried out in a scholarly academic atmosphere that provides a wide exposure to clinical Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine as well as clinical and basic science research.

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Faculty

  • Adeel Abbasi, MD, ScM

    Adeel Abbasi, MD, ScM

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Medical Director of the Lifespan Adult Extracorporeal Life Support Program
  • Ameen Al-Aghil, MD

    Ameen Al-Aghil, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
  • Jason Aliotta, MD

    Jason Aliotta, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Interim Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Medical Director, Rhode Island Hospital MICU; Clinician Educator
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    Sohaib Ansari, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
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    Roger Auth, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
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    Matthew Ballenberger, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
  • Debasree Banerjee, MD

    Debasree Banerjee, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Medical Director, RIH MICU; Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Group; Director of Critical Care Consult Service
  • Michael Blundin, MD

    Michael Blundin, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director of Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic; Clinician Educator
  • Ghada Bourjeily, MD

    Ghada Bourjeily, MD

    Professor of Medicine, Health Services, Policy and Practice Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health of Brown University; Director of Women’s Research at Brown University Health
  • Vesna Buntak, MD

    Vesna Buntak, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
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    Caitlin Butler, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Gerardo Carino, MD, PhD

    Gerardo Carino, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Intensive Care Unit, The Miriam Hospital; Assistant Director of Graduate Medical Education; Clinician Educator
  • E. Jane Carter, MD

    E. Jane Carter, MD

    Professor of Medicine (Teaching Scholar); Past President, The Union (International Union Against Tb and Lung Disease), Paris, France
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    Amos Charles, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
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    Maya Cohen, MD

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    Lauren Cushing, MSN, RNP

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    Rache Darling, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Assistant Program Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
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    Anton Edwards, MD

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    Samuel Evans, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
  • Andrew Foderaro, MD

    Andrew Foderaro, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Medical Director of Bronchoscopy; Clinician Educator
  • Eric Gartman, MD

    Eric Gartman, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory, Director of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Laboratory, PCCM Fellowship Site Director, Director of ICU, Providence VA Medical Center
  • Elizabeth Harrington, PhD

    Elizabeth Harrington, PhD

    Associate Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in the Division of Biology and Medicine; Professor of Medicine
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    Emily Ho, RNP

  • Matthew Jankowich, MD

    Matthew Jankowich, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Chief of Staff for Education, Providence VA Medical Center
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    Peter Karczmar, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
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    Brian Kimble, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Science; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
  • James Klinger, MD

    James Klinger, MD

    Professor of Medicine; Director of Rhode Island Hospital Pulmonary Hypertension Center
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    Olson Knight, MD

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    John Ladetto, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
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    Jisoo Lee, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Program Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Clinician Educator
  • Andrew Levinson, MD

    Andrew Levinson, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine; Program Director – Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Site Director, The Miriam Hospital – Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Clinician Educator
  • Mitchell Levy, MD

    Mitchell Levy, MD

    Professor of Medicine
  • Douglas Martin, MD

    Douglas Martin, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
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    F. Dennis McCool, MD

    Professor of Medicine
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    Richard Millman, MD

    Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; CO-Director, Hasbro Children’s Hospital Sleep Medicine Program; Medical Director, Sleep Disorders Centers, Brown Health Hospitals
  • Taro Minami, MD

    Taro Minami, MD

    Associate Professor of Medical Science; Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
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    Melissa Morgan, PA-S

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    Christopher Mullin, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory, RIH; Director, Pulmonary Embolism Response Team, RIH
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    William Oldham, MD

  • Olimpia Radu, MD

    Olimpia Radu, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
  • Sharon Rounds, MD

    Sharon Rounds, MD

    Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs; Co-Principal Investigator: CardioPulmonary Vascular Biology Center of Biomedical Research Excellence; Staff Pulmonary/Critical Care Physician, Providence VAMC
  • James Simmons, MD

    James Simmons, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Program Director – Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Medical Director of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Consultation, The Miriam Hospital; Clinician Educator
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    Amanjot Singh, MD

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    Navneet Singh, MD, ScM

    Post-doctoral fellow in Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital Pulmonary Hypertension Center
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    Claudia Sorin, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator
  • Corey Ventetuolo, MD

    Corey Ventetuolo, MD

    Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice; Associate Chief; Director of Research, RIH Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine; Associate Director, RIH Pulmonary Hypertension Center; Medical Director, Adult ECMO Services
  • Nicholas Ward, MD

    Nicholas Ward, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine
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    Mary Whittenhall, MSN, RNP

Fellowship Programs

Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship

The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare board eligible or certified internists for a career in clinical and/or academic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
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Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program affiliated with Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital offers a 1-2 year training program for applicants looking for robust critical care training.
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Research Programs

The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine of the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University is strongly committed to the academic mission of the Department of Medicine. We have many ongoing funded research projects in a wide variety of fields from clinical research to bench research both within our own department and through collaboration with the other departments in the Brown research community. Each faculty member, whether full-time basic science, clinical research or clinical practice oriented, is encouraged to pursue independent research efforts. Research in our division encompasses a diverse mix of basic science biology, clinical studies, therapeutic trials, health services, and ethics research, which substantiates the division’s commitment to encouraging a broad array of research. The funding of research in our division also comes from a wide area of sources, including the NIH, professional societies, dependent foundations, hospital-based, and industry. The Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellows have participated in many of the research projects and have been lead authors on several publications in peer-reviewed journals as a result of their research efforts. Our Brown Respiratory Research Training Program (funded by an NIH T32 grant) is a demonstration of our commitment to mentoring young investigators in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, and is available to extend training past the first three years in appropriate candidates.

Active Areas of Research Include:

  • Sepsis (mechanisms and treatment)
  • Knowledge translation
  • Acute lung injury
  • Pulmonary vascular disease (mechanisms and treatment)
  • Pulmonary vascular permeability and endothelial dysfunction
  • Extracorporeal life support
  • Sleep medicine
  • Women’s Lung and Sleep Health
  • Systemic vascular co-morbidities of COPD
  • Tuberculosis/NTM
  • End-of-life care in the ICU
  • Ethical and practical aspects of rationing medical care
  • Health-related quality of life
  • Role of Stem Cells, progenitor cells and extracellular vesicles in lung injury repair
  • Pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung diseases