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Sarah M. Lyon, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, CMC VAMC
Staff Physician, Philadelphia VA Medical Center CMCVAMC
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3600 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 617-851-3432
Education:
BA (French)
Binghamton University, 1994.
MA (French Language and Literature)
Middlebury College, 1995.
NA (Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Med)
Yale University, 2000.
MD
Boston University School of Medicine, 2004.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005.
Resident, Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2007.
Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2010.
Chief Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2011.
Post-Graduate Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2013.
Certifications
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2007.
Pulmonary Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2010.
Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2012.
Pulmonary Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2021.
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Description of Research Expertise

My prior research has focused on understanding how non-clinical social determinants of health as well as organizational and policy variations impact utilization and outcomes in respiratory diseases. My masters in clinical epidemiology thesis examined the impact of insurance status on ICU utilization and outcomes using Pennsylvania hospital discharge data. This project found a decreased utilization and increased 30-day mortality for uninsured critically ill patients. I expanded on this research with an F32 NIH grant to study how MA insurance reform impacted critical care utilization and outcomes.

Description of Clinical Expertise

My clinical practice is focused on both Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, with a primary practice in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Additionally, I provide critical care, as well as pulmonary consultation at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

My outpatient pulmonary practice at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center includes expertise in tele-health.

I am a consultant at the Bucks County Health Department Chest Clinic in Tuberculosis.

Description of Other Expertise

I am leader within undergraduate medical education at the Penn Perelman School of Medicine.

I am a course director of Doctoring IC, a second year medical student course on professionalism, and serve on the leadership committee for Module 6.

I course director of the Pulmonary Course for second year medical students at the Perelman School of Medicine, having served as co-directory in 2019, and a small group preceptor since 2012.

I am course director for the HUP MICU externship clinically elective for fourth year medical students.

I continue to be course director for our simulation procedures course for medical students traveling to low resources areas. I helped develop this course, now required for all students working abroad, and helped to demonstrate a reduction in blood and body fluid exposures for students participating in the course.

In addition to my clinical practice in general pulmonology at the Philadelphia Medical center, I practice critical care medicine at HUP and at the VA. I am also a consult in Tuberculosis with the Bucks County Health Department.

Nationally, I am recognized for my leadership with in health policy. I am chair of the health policy committee of the American Thoracic Society, providing input for expertise to the ATS executive committee, to provide timely responses to proposed legislation, judicial hearings, and administrative actions, that impact our practice or the health of our patients with pulmonary and sleep diseases as well as those who are critically ill. We provide timely reviews within our peer review journals on issues of high relevance to our profession.

Selected Publications

SM Lyon: Expanded Health Insurance Access Through the ACA - An Important But Insufficient Step in Improving Health Care Access and Equity. CHEST 159(6): 2129-30, June 2021.

Auriemma CL, Harhay MO, Haines KJ, Barg FK, Halpern SD, Lyon SM.: What Matters To Patients and Their Families During And After Critical Illness: A Qualitative Study. American Journal of Critical Care 30(1): 11-20, 2021 Notes: https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2021398.

Admon AJ, Sjoding MW, Lyon SM, Ayanian JZ, Iwashyna TJ, Cooke CR: Medicaid Expansion and Mechanical Ventilation in Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Heart Failure. Annals American Thoracic Society Febuary 2019 Notes: Poster presentation.

Lyon, SM: Healthcare Reform: An Update. Annals ATS 15(4): 417, April 2018 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201708-684HP

Admon AJ,Sjoding MW, Lyon SM,Iwashyna TJ, Cooke CR: The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Rates of Ambulatory Care-Sensitive ICU Admission. AJRCCM 197: A5900, 2018 Notes: Poster presentation.

Sarah M Lyon and Milton Rossman: Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections, Seventh Edition. David Schlossberg (eds.). 5(1), Jan 2017.

Lyon SM, Douglas IS, Cooke CR: Health Policy: Toward Achieving Respiratory Health Equality. Achieving Respiratory Health Equality. Juan Celedon (eds.). SpringerLink, Page: 173-188, 2017 Notes: Chapter 14.

Lyon SM, Moore N, Douglas IS, Cooke CR: Update on the Affordable Care Act. King v. Burwell and Obergefell v. Hodge. Annals ATS 13(4): 324-328, March 2016.

Aureimma CL, Lyon SM, Strelec LE, Kent S, Cooney E, Barg FK, Halpern SD: Defining the medical intensive care unit in the words of patients and family members: a freelisting analysis. American Journal of Critical Care 24(4): e47-55, Jul 2015.

Reid Michael J A, Biller Nancy, Lyon Sarah M, Reilly John P, Merlin Jessica, Dacso Matthew, Friedman Harvey M: Reducing risk and enhancing education: U.S. medical students on global health electives. American journal of infection control 42(12): 1319-21, Dec 2014.

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