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.
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.
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 30 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.
Pulmonary & Critical Care
Fellowship Information
Our Fellows
PGY-4
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Emma Albert-Stone, MD
Medical School: University of Massachusetts
Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Michigan -
Jacob Brown, MD
Medical School: St. George’s University
Residency: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Rutgers University -
Julio Piedra Butina, MD
Medical School: Universidad Catolica de Cuenca Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Ecuador
Residency: Saint Peter’s University Hospital, Rutgers University -
Alexis Jacobson, MD
Medical School: University of Massachusetts
Residency: Internal Medicine, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital
PGY-5
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Mark Dunlop
Medical School: New York Medical College
Residency: Internal Medicine, Harvard University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Gabrielle Mock, MD
Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital -
Alexis Sherman-Roe
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Internal Medicine, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital -
Shreya Vakharia
Medical School: Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, India
Residency: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
PGY-6
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Sara Aijaz, MD
Medical School: Lew Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Residency: Boston University Medical Center -
Meghan Snuckel, MD
Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Connecticut -
Claire Ronan, MD
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: Boston University Medical Center -
Tariq Sallam, MD
Medical School: University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine
Residency: Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University
Former Fellows & Initial Position Post-Fellowship
Medical Education
It is our philosophy that honing teaching proficiency is a vital skill and an essential aspect of fellowship training. Each fellow, therefore, is encouraged to participate in the training of Internal Medicine residents and medical students in a variety of ways. Fellows present informal conferences to residents and medical students rotating on the pulmonary elective and the ICU. Our fellows organize and teach a third-year medical student course in chest x-ray reading. Additionally, many of our fellows participate in the small group teaching sections of the medical school Pulmonary Pathophysiology course.
Clinical Experience
Our Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program is a 3 year, ACGME certified training program that includes intensive instruction in clinical medicine. During their 3 years, our fellows will gain extensive experience with in-patient and out-patient pulmonary medicine as well as critical care training in ICUs that range from general community based to the highest-level tertiary care ICU in the region. Pulmonary education will include extensive exposure to pulmonary hypertension, interventional pulmonary, interstitial lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, advanced sleep disorders, pulmonary physiology, as well as general pulmonary diseases. Critical care training will give fellows experience in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, state of the art ventilator technique, trauma critical care, neuro-critical care as well as general medical critical care. If desired, fellows can take extra clinical months for training in elective topics which can occur at our institution or at other institutions. Our program emphasizes competence at a wide variety of pulmonary and critical care procedures and our fellows typically graduate proficient in endotracheal intubations, pulmonary artery catheterization, chest tubes, and many advanced elements of interventional bronchoscopy including endobronchial ultrasound.
Who We Are
Graduate Medical Education
Research
We feel that direct involvement of the fellows in a research program will greatly enhance their scholarly development, provide a foundation for logical and critical thinking, and encourage lifelong habits of continuing scholarship. One goal of this experience is to foster potential interest in a career in academic medicine. Through their research experience, our fellows:
- Learn the design and interpretation of research studies
- Learn to evaluate investigative methods and the interpretation of their data
- Develop competence in critical assessment of the medical literature and of the results of their work.
The first-year fellows are introduced to the research areas of the faculty at our weekly research conferences. During the early springtime of the first year, each first-year fellow will discuss projects with various faculty members and then decide on a research theme. Research opportunities are available in both clinical and basic science within the department in the areas of Sleep, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine. In addition, ample opportunities exist outside the department for joint research projects.
One faculty member acts as preceptor for the research project and meets frequently with the fellow to review their work. In addition, fellows, and faculty meet at weekly work-in-progress seminars to discuss ongoing projects. Visiting faculty from both American and International institutions visit the Pulmonary Division, meet with faculty and fellows, and lecture at pulmonary research conferences. It is expected that a fellow will initiate and complete 1-2 projects during their fellowship experience.
Fellows who desire to pursue an academic career are urged to stay beyond the third year to continue their research endeavors under the preceptorship of one of the faculty. Fellows are eligible for our T32 institutional research training grant via the NIH, which provides funding to obtain a Master’s degree through Brown University in the appropriate school as well as continued clinical experience, research mentorship, and career networking. Applicants interested in such a career are encouraged to express this interest on their application.