UAB Interventional Pulmonology Program Overview Our Specialists

The UAB Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program, Hitesh Batra, MD Assistant Professor, Division of the first and only such program in Alabama, offers a comprehensive Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical and multidisciplinary approach to a wide range of pulmonary and Care Medicine, Director of the pleural diseases including: Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program • Central airway obstruction (malignant and non-malignant) • Lung mass/nodule Joseph Thachuthara-George, MD • Mediastinal lymphadenopathy Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical • Suspected/proven malignant pleural effusions Care Medicine, Co-Director of the • Undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program We are the only program in Alabama with the expertise to perform the full range of Interventional Pulmonology procedures such as: Mark Dransfield, MD Professor, Division of Pulmonary, • Flexible/rigid bronchoscopy Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Medical Director of UAB Lung Health • Linear and radial EBUS Center • Electromagnetic navigation (EMN) guided bronchoscopy • EMN guided transthoracic needle biopsy • Fiducial placement Veena Antony, MD • Silicone, metallic and hybrid airway stents Professor, Division of Pulmonary, • Thermal techniques including argon plasma coagulation (APC), Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Director of UAB Adult Cystic Fibrosis electrocautery, laser and cryotherapy Program • Photodynamic therapy • Powered instrumentation (microdebrider) • Autofluorescence and narrow band imaging Gerald Belopolsky, MD • Bronchial thermoplasty Assistant Professor, Division of • Thoracoscopy Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care • Pleural biopsy Medicine • Pleurodesis • Indwelling pleural catheters • Percutaneous tracheostomy Jennifer Trevor, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Division Our fundamental philosophy is that all patients with known or of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical suspected thoracic malignancies or complications thereof deserve Care Medicine prompt attention. The UAB Interventional Pulmonology and Pleural Disease Program is committed to see patients referred by physicians within one calendar week of the referral. Diagnostic procedures required after the first visit are generally completed within one week. All challenging cases are discussed at our Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board meetings, which are attended by our collaborating medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, thoracic surgeons, radiologists and pathologists.

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