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2/Fellowship Graduation Ceremony Pictures include: -Faculty/fellows -The mandatory selfie! -Fellows recognition to the attending of the year, Dr Paul Branca (he couldn’t make it) -Fellows and Faculty recognition to Dr Dudney’s contributions and leadership (recognition chair)




3/ Fellowship Graduation Ceremony Pictures include: -Dr Sam Treat’s Fellow of the Year Award (Peer recognition) -Daniel Church, RRT, “kindly” roasting our fellows -General pictures




Graduation Ceremony Bittersweet farewell to our fellows, Drs Sam Treat, Syed Hussain, and Akesh Thomas. We are very grateful for their hard work and excellence. Wishing you a great career. Continue to make us proud! (Group 📸: Dr Biney PD / Pam Trentham, Program Manager)




Our chairman, Dr Rajiv Dhand, presenting at @accpchest #CHEST2024, on: Poster 4241- SERUM ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN LEVELS AND PHENOTYPES AMONG PATIENTS WITH COPD AND ASTHMA SEEN AT AN ACADEMIC TERTIARY PULMONARY CLINIC IN EAST TENNESSEE Making our @utgsm Department look great!


Our Chief Fellow, Dr Sam Treat and our ECMO team, presenting at the recent 35th ELSO @ELSOOrg conference in Michigan “Road Rash: A Case of MVC Resulting in Cardiac Arrest and Pneumonectomy Supported by VA ECMO” Making us proud!




Fellowship team-building evening during @accpchest #CHEST2024 Faculty thanking our fellows and residents for their outstanding work and solid presentations!

Solid @utgsm Internal Medicine resident presentations at @accpchest #CHEST2024 Dr Jacob Daniel Poster 1154- MILIARY HISTOPLASMOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS Dr Jesse Woodall Poster 5320- PREVENTING THE INEVITABLE: EVIDENCE FOR POST-TIPS PROPHYLAXIS Great job!


Solid @utgsm IM resident presentations at @accpchest #CHEST2024 Dr Christy Smith Poster 5494- “HYPEREOSINOPHILIA: A PECULIAR PARANEOPLASTIC PROCESS OF LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA” Dr Erin Hamric “Poster 2551- “SCREENING FOR PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS IN BRAIN ABSCESSES”


Superb Rapid-Fire presentation by our 2nd-year fellow Dr Ghassan Wadi at @accpchest #CHEST2024 on: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LOW-PRESSURE, HIGH-OXYGEN CENTRAL VENOUS LINE: I SWEAR THE LINE WAS IN THE VEIN” Great delivery! Made us proud!

Top presentation by our 3rd-year fellow Dr Akesh Thomas at @accpchest #CHEST2024 on: “OPTIMAL HEMODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF RIGHT ATRIAL PRESSURE AND CORRELATION WITH CARDIAC AND STROKE VOLUME INDEX” Project in collaboration with residents J Woodall and E Hamric Solid work!




Great rapid-fire presentation by 3rd-year PCCM fellow, Dr S Hussain at @accpchest #CHEST2024 on: “Acute Onset Aphasia: Stroke or Neurotoxicity” Making us proud!


Solid presentation by our second-year PCCM fellow, Dr Ghassan Wadi, at @accpchest #CHEST2024 “Uncommon suspect behind a common syndrome.”


Great job by our second-year PCCM fellow, Dr Raghu Tiperneni. “Positive end-expiratory pressure and worsening hypoxemia: a 3D view”


PCCM Faculty and Fellows showing support for the @accpchest #CHEST2024 presentations. Great attendance!

Attending a superb @PHAssociation 2024 Conference Presenting our @utmedicalcenter PH center’s poster on “Real-World Discontinuation Rate of Inhaled Treprostinil in PH-ILD”. Great job by K Robinson, RN and H Hall, NP Our fellow @Akesh70591711 couldn’t make it 😞 @utgsm


