Pelton Phinizy, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine)
Attending Physician, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia
Associate Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine Fellowship, Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia
Associate Director, Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Center, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Director, Bronchoscopy Consult Service, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
3501 Civic Center Blvd.
14th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
3501 Civic Center Blvd.
14th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-3749
Education:
B.S. (Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Sciences)
University of Michigan, 2006.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2010.
Permanent linkB.S. (Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Sciences)
University of Michigan, 2006.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2010.
Selected Publications
Alexander I Gipsman MD a , Lauren M C Grant MD a , Prof Joseph C Piccione DO a e , Nadir Yehya MD b , Char Witmer MD c , Lisa R Young MD a e , Antoinette Wannes Daou MD a , Abhay Srinivasan MD d , Pelton A Phinizy MD a: Management of severe acute pulmonary haemorrhage in children. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 9(5), May 2025.Lauren M.C. Grant, Emily Collins, Karen B. Zur, Rosara Bass, Pelton A. Phinizy, Joseph Piccione: Exposures and coexisting conditions in pediatric nodular tracheobronchitis. Pediatric Pulmonology November 2024.
Aoife Corcoran, Laura Finn, Joseph Piccione, Pelton Phinizy: CT Navigation Guided Transparenchymal Nodule Biopsy In Pediatric Patients with Pulmonary Lesions. Pediatric Pulmonology 59(7): 2012-2014, July 2024.
A Corcoran, D Shore, R P Boesch, M Chopra, S Das, D DiBardino, S Goldfarb, A Haas, E Hysinger, P Phinizy, A Vicencio, J Toth, J Piccione: Practices And Perspectives on Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Bronchoscopy Among Pediatric Pulmonologists In The United States. Pediatric Pulmonology 59(6): 1708-1715, June 2024.
Lauren M.C. Grant, Katherine Maietta, Aoife Corcoran, Pelton A. Phinizy, Joesph Piccione: Measures of Tracheomalacia in Children Undergoing Flexible Bronchoscopy. Abstract submitted to American Thoracic Society 2024 International Conference in San Diego, CA, USA. Accepted to a poster presentation session. May 2024.
Aoife Corcoran, Ann Foran, Pelton Phinizy, David M Biko, Joseph C Piccione, Jordan B Rapp: Dynamic Airway Computed Tomography and Flexible Bronchoscopy for Diagnosis of Tracheomalacia in Children – A Comparison Study. Pediatric Pulmonology 59(4): 899-906, April 2024.
Lauren M C Grant, Noran Hassan, Jeffrey S Gerber, Pelton A Phinizy, Joseph Piccione: Pediatric miliary tuberculosis diagnosed by endobronchial ultrasound-guided biopsy. Pediatric Pulmonology 59(4): 1089-1091, April 2024.
Aoife Corcoran, Stephen Franklin, Erik Hysinger, Samuel Goldfarb, Pelton Phinizy, Jennifer Pogoriler, Sin Tran, David M DiBardino, Andrew R Haas, Joseph C Piccione: Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound and Virtual CT Navigational Bronchoscopy for Biopsy of Pulmonary Nodules, Mediastinal Lymph Nodes and Thoracic Tumors in Children. Pediatric Pulmonology 59(2): 371-378, Feb 2024.
Erik Hysinger 1, Laurie Murray 2, Faisal Shaikh 3, Andrew Paisley 1, Alfin Vicencio 4, Rhia Shah 4, Chantal Grant 4, Timothy J Harkin 4, Andrew Haas 5, Pelton Phinizy 6, Aoife Corcoran 6, Joseph Piccione 6, Gregory Burg 1: Endobronchial Valves for Persistent Air Leak in Children with Necrotizing Pneumonia. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024.
Aoife Corcoran MBBS, Kumaran Senthil MD, Hannah Stinson MD, Pelton A. Phinizy MD, Joseph C. Piccione DO, MS: Endobronchial valve and fibrin sealant placement for successful control of pulmonary hemorrhage in a pediatric patient. Pediatric Pulmonology August 2023.