Education

Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Training

|1996-1999|University of Tennessee, Memphis TN

MD Degree

|1988-1993| University of Tennessee, Memphis TN

Premedical Undergraduate Coursework 

|1984-1987| University of Memphis, Memphis TN

Bachelor of Science in Health Arts

|1983-1985| College of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois

Experience

Physician|2000-2022|Memphis Lung Physicians Foundation, Inc. Memphis, TN

Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Training |1996-1999|Univeristy of Tennessee, Memphis TN

Associate Staff in Emergency Medicine at Methodist Germantown and Methodist Central |1996| Methodist Hospitals of Memphis

Internal Medicine Residency Training |1994-1996|

Internal Medicine Internship |1993-1994|

Honors

Director of Trinity Hospice House for 3 years

Chief of Medical Staff at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville

Chief Pulmonary Fellow responsibilities (1998)

John Runyan, MD, Ambulatory Medicine Teaching Award (1993)

Methodist Hospital Foundation Medical School Scholarship (1989-1993) 

Board Certification in Critical Care Nursing (1983)

Dean’s List at the University of Memphis (1984-1987)

Dean’s List at NWJC (1974-1976)

Phi Theta Kappa (Academic based on GPA)- NWJC (1976)

University of Memphis for the Premedical Honors Society (1985)

Activities

• Clinical Rotations with Family Practice Resident Training
• Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and attending multiple international PAH conferences, attend local support group meeting of Memphis chapter PAH
• Peer Review Committee
• Clinical Instructor for introduction to Clinical Skills course M2 student Spring semester 1999
• Coauthor of Investigation/Abstract: Use of Metered Dose Spacer Device and Use of Peak Flow Meter by Medical Students, 1999
• Clinical Epidemiology Investigation of outbreak of Acromabacteria from Bronchoalveolar Lavage at Regional Medical Center, February 1999
• Abstract submitted to ATS 1999 for clinical trials in efficiency use of Salmeterol with spacer
• International Ventilator Weaning Study, Participant in Multicenter Trial March 1998
• Lectures on asthma, acute respiratory failure, pulmonary rehabilitation, primary pulmonary hypertension, primary pulmonary fungal infections, exudative pleural effusions, and nonthrombotic embolic syndromes
• Annual meeting of ACCP 1997 and 1998. Fellow preconference workshops on rigid bronchoscopy, cryotherapy, stent placement, percutaneous tracheostomy
• Oral Presentation of Resident Clinical Vignette at 1994 Annual Meeting of Tennessee
• Missionary Physician in Mexico Medical Brigade sponsored by Independent Presbyterian Church with Dr. John Crew (1994)
• Data Collection in Pulmonary Embolism Review/ Collaboration with Dr. Kenneth Leeper (1994)
• ACLS certification (1983)
• PALS certification (1998)

Professional

Organizations

Associate Member of American College of Chest Physicians

Associate member of American College of Physicians