Keith Zafren of Lexington, Kentucky, is the sixth person at Northwestern Medicine to receive a #DoubleLungTransplant for #LungCancer .

Learn more about the innovative DREAM Program: ms.spr.ly/6019YRKex. NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery #NMBetter

Mrinalini Venkata Subramani, MD, and her team have opened a lung transplant clinic at Northwestern Palos Hospital providing lung transplant consultations and follow-up care in the south suburbs of Chicago. Learn more about the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program:…

'What this allows us to do is take donor lungs that we might not otherwise be able to use and actually perform different procedures or treatments on them, so it opens up the donor pool and creates more donor organs for recipients.' Catherine Myers, MD (Catherine Myers, MD), discusses…

'If the diagnostic process is not helping us manage the patient better — if it’s not informing care discussions — then our efforts should be put elsewhere. Diagnostic excellence should be efficient, timely, safe, equitable, effective & patient centered.' — bit.ly/KL2-Pickens

Don't miss James Pifer and Tolaram Wadhwani, clinical managers for Respiratory Care and #PulmonaryFunctionTests Lab, who are at the Illinois Society of Respiratory Care Conference to showcase Northwestern Medicine and recruit new staff for the Respiratory Therapy team.…

'Keith’s transplant demonstrates how far we can push our technologies to help patients, including some patients with terminal lung cancer whose disease is rapidly progressing.' Ankit Bharat, MD (@AnkitBharat), discusses the groundbreaking use of the 'lungs-in-a-box' technology to…

📻 TUNE IN: Khalilah Gates, MD, NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery Northwestern Medicine, joins WVON 1690AM's Dana Divine on Saturday, 4/27, at 11 am, to discuss #COPD , a condition that impacts millions of Americans, making it harder for them to breathe. 🫁 LISTEN LIVE at wvon.com.

Chis Kapp presenting on our upcoming randomized clinical trial of using rapid-on-site evaluation for the adequacy of EBUS-TBNA for molecular testing at the IPOG international research meeting ⁦Chris Kapp⁩ ⁦NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery⁩

Great morning in Heidelberg Thoraxklinik!

Please join us in congratulating Rogan Grant, PhD (Rogan Grant), a scientist at Northwestern Medicine, on being selected as a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow. The Schmidt Fellows Program sponsors promising, emerging scientists with postdoc placement in internationally renowned labs…

Ambalavanan Arunachalam, MD (Ambalavanan Arunachalam MD MS), is pictured here with patient, now #CancerFree , who underwent a recent groundbreaking procedure by Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute physicians in which they performed a lifesaving #DoubleLungTransplant with a pair of…

When a Kentucky father faced a life-limiting case of #LungCancer , Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute physicians performed an innovative #DoubleLungTransplant to save the patient's life. youtu.be/5l8ucl53uem?si…

'I think that uniqueness and that novelty, again, was something special for us and has demonstrated how far we can push our technologies to help patients.' Ankit Bharat, MD (@AnkitBharat), discusses the groundbreaking use of a pair of rehabbed donor lungs to give a patient with…

Justin Fiala, MD (Justin Fiala, MD 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM), a pulmonologist and professor of #SleepMedicine , discusses the urban sleep clinic he started in Chicago, where his team works with patients who may have previously faced economic barriers to sleep-related health care. pulmonologyadvisor.com/home/topics/ob…

'Now I have a fast and reliable clinical tool to help easily distinguish between COPD and CHF patients for precise and timely care.' Ted Koutouzis, MD, clinical instructor in Emergency Medicine, discusses FDA approval of the addition of cardiac and lung #ArtificialIntelligence …

#Congratulations to GR Scott Budinger, MD for being named the #FacultyMentor of the Year by our Medical Faculty Council! NM Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery

ASCI members G.R. Scott Budinger and Benjamin D. Singer on JCI insight's #Cover : Prolonged exposure to lung-derived cytokines is associated with activation of microglia in patients with #COVID_19 : buff.ly/4cZwSmf
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Joseph Bailey, MD, provides #ThoughtLeadership on the upcoming drug #Permgada and how it will be marketed to help protect #HighRisk patients from #COVID19 . nytimes.com/2024/03/25/wel…

KL2 Profile Series: Chiagozie Pickens, MD, MSc, is committed to the implementation of diagnostic excellence in the move toward a precision medicine approach for pneumonia — bit.ly/KL2-Pickens