David M. DiBardino, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
University Associate Staff, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Program Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street
821 W. Gates
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
821 W. Gates
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Education
BS (Science)
University of Michigan, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
Northwestern University, 2010.
Permanent linkBS (Science)
University of Michigan, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
Northwestern University, 2010.
Selected Publications
Jeffrey Thiboutot, Christopher M Kapp, Peter Illei, Scott Shofer, Christopher R Gilbert, David DiBardino, Andrew DeMaio, Sonali Sethi, Momen M Wahidi, Bryan S Benn, Colin Gillespie, Cristina Salmon, Luis Angel, Ashutosh Sachdeva, Van K Holden, Rafael Paez, Jennifer D Duke, Robert J Lentz, Anil Vachani, Nicholas Pastis, Daniela Molena, Sean Tackett, Miranda R Jones, Najib M Rahman, Gerard Silvestri, Fabien Maldonado, Lonny Yarmus; Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group: Cryobiopsy vs Forceps for Bronchoscopic Lung Biopsy: The FROSTBITE-2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA May 2026 Notes: Epub ahead of print e267908.Jeffrey Thiboutot, Ardian Latifi, Peter Illei, Christopher M Kapp, Fabien Maldonado, Sonali Sethi, Scott Shofer, Christopher Gilbert, Momen Wahidi, Andrew DeMaio, Ashutosh Sachdeva, David DiBardino, Anil Vachani, Nicholas Pastis, Daniela Molena, Miranda R Jones, Najib M Rahman, Gerard Silvestri, Lonny Yarmus: A randomized controlled trial of cryoprobe versus forceps for transbronchial biopsy (FROSTBITE-2): Study protocol for a multi-center pragmatic clinical trial. Contemp Clin Trials 162: 108251, Mar 2026.
Martin J. Edelman, Anil Vachani, Dana Marie Haagen Zambino, Eric Ross, Rohit Kumar, Alan Haber, David Dibardino, Karen Ruth, Jordan Anaokar, Maruti Kumaran, Cheyenne Pagan, Kirby P. Gardner, Cha-Mei Tang, Dan Adams : Pragmatic, Multicenter, Double-Blind Evaluation of Circulating Cancer Associated Macrophage-Like (CAML) Cells for Detection of Cancer in Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules. JCO Precision Oncology 2026.
Alicia Moreno-Gonzalez, Ebtesam H O Nafie, Chiara Pastori, Joseph Mammarappallil, Partha Seshaiah, Maria B Plentl, Beryl A Hatton, Robert E Neal 2nd, Michael A Pritchett, Janani S Reisenauer, Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, David DiBardino, Bradley B Pua, William S Krimsky: Six-Month Local Control Rates and Immune Responses After Pulsed Electric Field Ablation in Metastatic Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 17(21): 3495, Oct 2025.
Russell J Miller, Ara A Chrissian, Fayez Kheir, Majid Shafiq, Abigail T Chua, Neal Navani, Francisco A Almeida, Abdul H Alraiyes, Paul A Bain, Christina R Bellinger, Cherng H Chao, George Z Cheng, Rebecca Cloyes, Javier Diaz-Mendoza, David M DiBardino, Erik Folch, Laura K Frye, Yaron B Gesthalter, Thomas R Gildea, Amit Goyal, Karen M Heskett, Van Kim Holden, Moishe Liberman, Christopher Manley, Nikhil K Meena, Catherine L Oberg, Jasleen K Pannu, Edward M Pickering, Michal Senitko, Jo-Anne O Shepard, Thomas Vandemoortele, Atul C Mehta, Kazuhiro Yasufuku: American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (AABIP) Evidence-Based Guidelines on Bronchoscopic Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol 32(4): e1034, Sep 2025.
Pritchett MA, Reisenauer JS, Fernandez-Bussy S, DiBardino D, Hunt SJ, Ma KC, Pua BB, Shostak E, Hatton BA, Moreno-Gonzalez A, Seshaiah P, Krimsky WS: The Safety of Pulsed Electric Field Ablation Before Standard of Care Treatment for Patients With Metastatic Cancer. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol 32(4), Jul 2025.
Gupta S, Ghiathi C, DiBardino D, Josan ES, Salguero BD, Chaddha U, Wayne MT, De Cardenas J, Matta M, Young B, Dunatchik A, Di Felice C, Avasarala SK: Effect of Interventional Pulmonology Fellowships on Pulmonary Critical Care Fellows' Core Bronchoscopy Competencies. ATS Sch. 6(2): 179-190, Jun 2025.
Roger Y Kim, Clarisa Yee, Sana Zeb, Jennifer Steltz, Andrew J Vickers, Katharine A Rendle, Nandita Mitra, Lyndsey C Pickup, David M DiBardino, Anil Vachani: Clinical Utility of an Artificial Intelligence Radiomics-based Tool for Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules. JNCI Cancer Spectr 8(5), Sep 2024.
John E McGinniss, Jevon Graham-Wooten, Samantha A Whiteside, Ayannah S Fitzgerald, Layla A Khatib, Kevin C Ma, David M DiBardino, Andrew R Haas, Fredric D Bushman, Barry D Fuchs, Ronald G Collman: Microbiome Profiling Demonstrates Concordance of Endotracheal Tube Aspirates with Direct Lower Airway Sampling in Intubated Patients. Chest 165(6), Jun 2024.
Corcoran A, Shore D, Boesch RP, Chopra M, Das S, DiBardino D, Goldfarb S, Haas A, Hysinger E, Phinizy P, Vicencio A, Toth J, Piccione J: Practices And Perspectives on Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Bronchoscopy Among Pediatric Pulmonologists In The United States. Pediatr Pulmonol 59(6): 1708-1715, Jun 2024.