• Pathogenesis of Asthma
  William C. Bailey, MD

• Clinical Aspects of Asthma
  Lisa M. Schwiebert, PhD

• Occupational Asthma and
  Industrial Bronchitis
• Pneumonia (Community
  Acquired and Nosocomial)
• Vasculitis and Pulmonary Hemorrhage
  
• Drug Induced Pulmonary Disease
  J. Allen D. Cooper Jr., MD

• Pathogenesis of COPD
  Amit Gaggar, MD, PhD

• Clinical Aspects of COPD
• Lung Cancer
  Mark T. Dransfield, MD

• Clinical Aspects of Bronchiectasis
  and Cystic Fibrosis
  Steven M. Rowe, MD, MSPH

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  and Other Sleep Disorders
  Jeffrey W. Hawkins, MD, FCCP

• Pathogenesis and Treatment of IPF
  Victor J. Thannickal, MD

• Pathogenesis of Sarcoidosis
• Clinical Aspects of IPF
  Tracy Luckhardt, MD, MS

• Clinical aspects of Other ILD (Nongranulomatous)
  Joao A. de Andrade, MD

• Clinical Aspects of Sarcoidosis
  and Other Granulomatous ILD
  Joseph Barney, MD, FACP, FCCP

• Asbestos Related Rulmonary Disease
  and Other Occupational Related ILD
• Pleural Diseases
  Veena B. Antony, MD

• Clinical Aspects of Lung Transplantation
• Clinical Aspects of Pulmonary Embolism
  Keith Wille, MD

• Pulmonary Function Testing
  (Including Exercise Testing)
• Sepsis and Shock, Including
  Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Respiratory Failure and Mechanical
  Ventilation (Invasive and Noninvasive)
  James E. Johnson, MD

• Fungal Pneumonias
  John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH

• Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infections
  Nancy E. Dunlap, MD, PhD, MBA

• Pulmonary Infections in Immunocompromised
  Hosts Other Than HIV
  Peter G. Pappas, MD, FACP

• Pulmonary Infections in Patients with HIV
  Kevin J. Leon, MD

• Pulmonary Hypertension
  José A. Tallaj, MD

• Thoracic Radiology I
• Thoracic Radiology II
  Satinder P. Singh, MD, FCCP

• Interventional Pulmonary Procedures
  Umair A. Gauhar, MD

• Pulmonary Disorders in Gynecologic Setting
• Pulmonary Disorders in the Neurologic Patient
  Gerald Belopolsky, MD

• Ethics in Pulmonary Medicine
  F. Amos Bailey, MD, FACP

Program Directors

J. Allen D. Cooper, Jr, MD
Professor of Medicine,
Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Chief, Pulmonary Section,
Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Director, Respiratory Therapy,
Department of Veterans Affairs

Victor J. Thannickal, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Ben Vaughan Branscomb Chair of Medicine
in Respiratory Disease
Director, Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy, and Critical Care

Program Faculty

Veena B. Antony, MD
Professor of Medicine

F. Amos Bailey, MD, FAACP
Associate Professor Medicine
Director, Safe Harbor Palliative Care Program, Birmingham VAMC

William C. Bailey, MD
Professor of Medicine
UAB Lung Health Center
Eminent Scholar Chair in Pulmonary Disease

John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Chief of Infectious Diseases, Birmingham VAMC

Joseph Barney, MD, FACP, FCCP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, MICU - UAB Highlands Hospital
Associate Medical Director, MICU University Hospital
Director, UAB Multidisciplinary Sarcoidosis Clinic
Director, UAB ICU Clinical Research Consortium

Gerald Belopolsky, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Joao A. de Andrade, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Birmingham VAMC Intensive Care Unit
Director, UAB Interstitial Lung Disease Program
Associate Director, UAB Pulmonary and
Critical Care Fellowship Program

Mark T. Dransfield, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, UAB Lung Health Center

Nancy E. Dunlap, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor of Medicine
DOM Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs

Amit Gaggar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, UAB Cystic Fibrosis Inflammation Group
Co-Director, Pulmonary Biospecimen
Sample Repository

Umair Gauhar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jeffrey W. Hawkins, MD, FCCP
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
UAB Sleep/Wake Disorders Center

James E. Johnson, MD
Charles and Alice Hohenberg Professor of
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Physiology & Bio-physics
Clinical Director, Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit

Kevin J. Leon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Tracy Luckhardt, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Peter G. Pappas, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Tinsley Harrison Clinical Scholar

Steven M. Rowe, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics
Director, UAB Cystic Fibrosis Transition Clinic
Director, CFF Therapeutics Development Network
Center for CFTR Detection

Satinder P. Singh MD., FCCP
Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Chief Cardiopulmonary Radiology
Director Cardiac CT

José A. Tallaj, MD
Associate Professor
Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Birmingham VAMC

Keith Wille, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine