The Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, has formed a Section of Interventional Pulmonology (IP). Dr. Michal Senitko, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery will serve as the inaugural section chief. The Interventional Pulmonology service at UMMC was created over 3 years ago by Dr. Senitko and Dr. George E. “Trey” Abraham III.
Dr. Hassan Cheema, PGY-VI fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care, shares about himself and his time at UMMC.
Congratulations to all the residents and fellows who received awards this year and best of luck to all graduating and moving on either in their training or into practice!
UMMC is starting eight clinical trials in the next days and weeks related to COVID-19. Drs. Gailen Marshall and Jason Parham both are serving as principal investigators in several trials with many other faculty members also involved as co-investigators. Read more to learn about the trials that are underway and set to start soon.
We continue to grow! The Department is excited to announce the following new faculty that will be starting over the next several months. Read more to see who will be joining the UMMC family.
Dr. Michal Senitko, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery, has been named Co-Director of UMMC’s Cancer Center and Research Institute’s Lung Cancer Early Detection Program. Dr. Senitko completed his internal medicine residency and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at UMMC. He also completed an additional interventional pulmonology fellowship at Yale University.
Dr. Andrew (Andy) Wilhelm is a faculty member in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. Dr. Wilhelm is currently serving on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in his clinical role and is also part of UMMC’s COVID implementation team. Here, he shares about himself, how he came to UMMC, and why he decided to stay.
Continue reading for the full Department of Medicine 2019 Match list.
Matthew Elliot, MD
Fellowship: UMMC Allergy and Immunology
Charles Grogan, MD
Fellowship: UMMC Allergy and Immunology
Baker Boler, MD
Fellowship: UMMC Cardiology
Announcing new appointments in the Department of Medicine: Dr. Vikas Majthia, Professor of Medicine and Division Director for the Rheumatology Division, has been appointed Vice
Dr. Demondes Haynes has been named Associate Dean of medical school admissions. Dr. Haynes is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and
It has been an honor to serve this past year as chief residents of the internal medicine residency program at UMMC. It has been an
First, tell us about you. I am originally from Mobile, Alabama. I went to the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) and then the University
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