Richard Zou, MD is a fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a MS candidate in the Clinical Research Program (Comparative Effectiveness Track) at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education.

His clinical research focuses on understanding risk factors and mechanisms of muscle loss and frailty in COPD. He was recently awarded an F32 Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship to identify clinical and molecular phenotypes associated with rapid muscle mass decline and to provide mechanistic insight into the natural history of muscle loss in smokers.

Justin K. Lui, MD, is a fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and a MS candidate in the Applied Biostatistics Program at Boston University School of Public Health.

His research focuses on clinical outcomes in patients with systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary hypertension. “Upon completion of my mentored research, I look forward to becoming an independent investigator as I develop both clinical and research expertise in the care of patients with pulmonary hypertension.”

Bruno Ferreyro, MD is a Fellow in the Oncologic Critical Care Program at the University Health Network/Sinai Health System and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Both his clinical and research interests relate to the care of critically ill immunocompromised patients. “During my PhD training I will describe the epidemiology patterns and outcomes of critical illness in patients with hematologic malignancies… Overall, this research will answer key knowledge gaps in the intersection of malignant hematology and critical care medicine with direct translation to patient-centered outcomes.”

Ashraf Fawzy, MD, MPH, is a clinical fellow in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His research is focuses on clinical outcomes in obstructive lung disease.

Kelly M. Pennington, MD, is a clinical fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Rochester, where she is a Kern Scholar in the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Her research is focused on preventing fungal infections in lung transplant recipients.

Andrew Synn, MD, is a fellow in the Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program based at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital. His research focuses on the use of computed tomographic imaging to identify abnormal pulmonary vascular changes that occur in the setting of chronic lung disease.

Takashi Hirama, MD, PhD, is a clinical fellow in the Division of Respirology at University of Toronto, where he has been dedicated to the management of patients with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria at Toronto Western Hospital and delivering comprehensive care for lung transplant recipients at Toronto General Hospital.  His research investigates the molecular and cellular biology of respiratory tract infections focused on nontuberculous mycobacteria, in different populations including transplant recipients.

William Parker, MD, is a fellow in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on critical care ethics, thoracic organ transplantation, and the allocation of scarce medical resources.

Gwen Thompson, MD, MPH, is completing her fellowship in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Her research focuses on ANCA-associated vasculitis and she is involved in both clinical and basic science research. Her clinical research investigates vasculitis manifestations and predictors of relapse. Her basic science research focuses on epitope recognition of proteinase 3 by ANCA.

Erin DeMartino, MD, is completing her fellowship in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic and is also a graduate of the clinical medical ethics fellowship at the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago.  Her research focuses on surrogate decision making, improving advance care planning and examining the ethical intricacies of life-sustaining technologies.    

Jatinder Juss, MD, PhD, is a fellow at St Michael’s Hospital in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto. Her translational research in infection, immunology and inflammation were ignited during her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on delineating the key mechanisms underpinning immune cell dysfunction in critically ill patients with sepsis and ARDS. Her aim is to identify patient-specific risk factors, specific molecular subtypes, and potentially, distinct therapeutic response profiles that will enable personalized medicine in the ICU.

Rachel Putman, MD, is a fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where her research focuses on early interstitial lung disease. She hopes to demonstrate that specific sets of imaging abnormalities represent an early stage of pulmonary fibrosis, and that better understanding of these changes will lead to advances in secondary prevention of this disease.

Michael E. Wilson, MD, is a fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His research focuses on improving decision making, individualized prognostication, and the delivery of quality palliative care for patients and their families in the hospital and intensive care unit.

Ann C. Long, MD, MS, is a senior fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. Her research interests include identification of patient populations at high risk for poor quality palliative care as well as the development and implementation of interventions to enhance the quality of palliative care provided to seriously ill, hospitalized adults.

Bhakti Patel, MD, is a pulmonary and critical care fellow at the University of Chicago. Her recent paper entitled “Impact of Early Mobilization on Glycemic Control and ICU-Acquired Weakness in Mechanical Ventilated Critically Ill Patients” generated great interest in the Critical Care Community and is currently working on research detailing the impact of ICU mobility on long term outcomes in survivors.

Michelle Biehl, MD has been named the first Ziskind Clinical Research Scholar Award winner. Dr. Biehl recently completed her fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and continues her critical care work at Sanford Health, University of South Dakota Medical Center. The focus of her research is long-term outcomes of critical care survivors.