Description of Clinical Expertise

I joined the faculty at Penn in 2017 after being on faculty at the University of Colorado since 2015. At the University of Colorado I completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and a sub-fellowship in pulmonary vascular disease. During my fellowship and while on faculty at University of Colorado I studied the role of macrophages in the development of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension with a clinical focus on pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary embolism. Since joining Penn, I’ve transitioned to a clinical role. I spend my time in the hospital as an intensive care unit physician and I also attend on our inpatient pulmonary hypertension service as well as the pulmonary embolism response team (PERT). My outpatient focus has been in care of patients with all aspects of pulmonary vascular disease including pulmonary hypertension, hepatopulmonary syndrome, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), and acute and chronic pulmonary embolism. I am the director of PERT at the Hospital University of Pennsylvania and co-direct the comprehensive pulmonary embolism program at Penn with Christian Bermudez from cardiothoracic surgery. A large part of my outpatient practice is the follow up care of patients who suffered acute pulmonary embolism as well as patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). I work closely with a multidisciplinary team including interventional cardiology, hematology, interventional radiology, diagnostic radiology, and cardiothoracic surgery. I am particularly interested in the transition of care in post pulmonary embolism patients, patients who experience ongoing shortness of breath following an acute pulmonary embolism, as well as patients seeking a second opinion for unexplained shortness of breath. In addition to my clinical and administrator roles, I enjoy teaching about pulmonary vascular disease and cardio-pulmonary physiology.