Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)

As a large tertiary care hospital, our closed ICU assumes care of patients with several complex and interconnected medical pathology, and is managed by Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) division with a team consisting of senior resident and intern residents supervised by a PCCM faculty member and fellow. Our comprehensive team is also joined by dedicated critical care pharmacists, respiratory therapists, social workers and bedside nurses. Alongside are rotating medical students, pharmacology students, respiratory therapy students, and nursing students. MICU is predominantly run by fellows. Fellows have a leadership role as they mentor and supervise residents in management of complex medical conditions while they learn to navigate ethical dilemmas as they are exposed to patient populations with a diverse social demographic.

Fellows also have the opportunity to enhance their procedural skills in the ICU under direct supervision. Fellows are responsible for performing and teaching routine ICU procedures such as central venous catheter, temporary non-tunneled HD catheter, Swan-Ganz catheter/pulmonary artery catheters/right heart catheterization, endotracheal intubation, cordis lines, arterial catheters, thoracentesis, paracentesis, thoracic pigtail catheters, and percutaneous tracheostomies.

Critical Care Consults

A dedicated team consisting of fellows and a critical care hospitalist is supervised by a faculty member. The team is also joined by rotating residents that express interest in critical care medicine.

This service provides fellows the opportunity to provide direct patient-related care as they assume primary responsibility of MICU patients with complex medical pathology. Fellows gain independent time with PCCM faculty as they are supervised in their patient care duties, which also includes multi-disciplinary interaction with consultants of medical and surgical specialties. In addition, this service also serves as the pulmonary consult team for specialty ICU services such as CCU, Surgical ICU and Neuro-ICU. Fellows are also responsible for all routine ICU procedures as listed above.

Pulmonary Consults

Consult service team is composed of a faculty member and fellow as well as rotating residents for routine pulmonary consults placed in the medical-surgical wards. This rotation provides an opportunity to manage a wide range of complex pulmonary pathology including asthma, COPD, OSA, interstitial lung disease (ILD), pulmonary hypertension (PH), and sarcoidosis. In addition, fellows not only manage complex pleural pathology but perform interventional pleural procedures such as thoracic pigtail catheters, in-dwelling PleurX catheters, and pleuroscopy. Fellows are also exposed to a variety of interventional pulmonary procedures of routine and navigational bronchoscopies, EBUS, rigid bronchoscopies, endobronchial valve, and stent placements as they are supervised in these procedures by an interventional pulmonologist.

Outpatient Clinic

Continuity clinic rotation occurs one half-day per week throughout the academic year unless on night-float or vacation. Fellows assume care for an independent panel of patients, supervised by a faculty member. This exposure is intended to provide fellows with the necessary tools to manage common and extremely rare pulmonary conditions as it provides valuable ambulatory clinic experience.

Night Float

This rotation is five days a week, 12-hour shift. Night float starts on Saturday night and ends on Thursday morning. The focus of the rotation is to encourage independent critical thinking and management.

Electives

We have several elective rotations available for senior fellows with in-patient rotations in the cardiothoracic ICU, CCU, neuro-ICU, surgical ICU, and advanced thoracic radiology. We also provide fellows outpatient elective rotations at the sleep, sarcoidosis, and pulmonary hypertension clinics. We have recently been offered an opportunity to rotate at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City for a lung transplant elective.

Research

We have published over 50 publications in the last year in several certified journals including several with high impact factors such CHEST, Annals of ATS , Respiratory Medicine Journals. Fellows remain primary and co-authors on papers. We have two full-time research coordinators and statisticians to help with the research projects. Fellows are given several months of research rotations through the three years of training. It is the expectation that all fellows participate in scholarly activity including publications, abstracts, and oral presentations. Education and mentorship are available for the fellow to develop a hypothesis, study design, statistical method, and data interpretation. Fellows participate in a monthly research meeting with our division chief, Dr. Marc Judson.

On average, graduating fellows have performed several hundred procedures. With that exposure, all fellows will be comfortable performing the procedures required by ACGME.

Albany Stratton VA Medical Center

Medical Intensive Care Unit and Consults

This rotation resembles the description of the MICU at Albany Medical Center. The VA MICU is a typical ICU located in the community and therefore provides a unique experience for the fellow to gain insight and to compare working within different systems. In general, the curriculum, education and expectations are the same. This fellow also covers all inpatient pulmonary consultations and represents similar aspects of the consult service at Albany Medical Center.

Pulmonary Outpatient Clinic

This clinic has a focus on sleep medicine and therefore provides a unique experience. This exposure is intended to provide fellows with the necessary cognitive and technical skills to manage patients with a wide variety of sleep related disorders under supervision of a PCCM faculty.

National & Regional Meeting Opportunities

During the three years of fellowship there is opportunity to attend and participate in national conferences such as the American Thoracic Society, American College of Chest Physicians, and the Cystic Fibrosis Conference.

Northern New England Pulmonary Fellows Conference

This a joint conference that rotates between Albany Medical Center, Maine Medical Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, University of Vermont Medical Center, and Baystate Medical Center. This is a fellow-driven conference where research and clinical cases are presented. Faculty and fellows from each institution are in attendance.

Annual Albany Medical Center Pulmonary & Critical Care Symposium

This is an annual conference where faculty and senior fellows present important developments and cases in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Boot Camp for First Year Fellows

We conduct a three-day boot camp that includes basic ultrasound training, introduction to common pulmonary critical care procedures, airway and bronchoscopy simulation, pleural procedures on cadavers, ventilator training, and chest radiograph interpretation skills.

Research & Scholarly Activities

2026

Chopra A, Hu K, Judson MA, Feller-Kopman D. Clinical Approach to a Pleural Effusion. Chest. 2026 Jun;169(6):1764-1774. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.11.022. Epub 2025 Nov 26. PMID: 41314413.

Bozell H, Wong C, Silverstein S, Dharia S, Khatim I, Albaba I, Alexander H, Feustel PJ, Glozman T, Masood L, Madisi N, Shkolnik B, Luthra M, Huggins T, Kurman J, Hu K, Chopra A. Role of Thoracic Ultrasound in Predicting Prognosis in Patients With Parapneumonic Effusions. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2026 Feb 20;33(2):e01062. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000001062. PMID: 41718074.

Sah A, Derakhshesh MI, Bozell HD, Wasim M, Javed F, Kirkpatrick P, Fabian EJ, Shkolnik B, Feustel PJ, Hu K, Judson MA, Lyubarova R, Torosoff M, Chopra A. Diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography in identifying heart failure related pleural effusions. Respir Med. 2026 Feb;252:108627. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2025.108627. Epub 2025 Dec 30. PMID: 41478579.

Ghazal M, Shaikh S, Daniel Z, Daghstani O, Musumeci J, Gajjala A, Beegle SH, Torosoff M. Acute left ventricular ejection fraction changes in Sepsis: Clinical predictors, management, and hospital outcomes. Heart Lung. 2026 Jan-Feb;75:225-230. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2025.10.017. Epub 2025 Oct 23. PMID: 41135214.

2025

Medarov B, Saha B, Chong K, Pokhrel K. Comparison of pH and PCO₂ between arterial blood gas and venous blood gas in critically ill patients. Am J Emerg Med. 2025 Dec;98:138-140. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2025.08.045. Epub 2025 Aug 20. PMID: 40876214.

Hu K, Judson MA, Feustel P, Shkolnik B, Madisi N, Luthra M, Chopra A. Predictors of Dyspnea Relief Using Ultrasound Measurements of Diaphragmatic Function in Symptomatic Pleural Effusions: Multicenter Prospective Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Nov;22(11):1674-1679. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202501-124OC. PMID: 40720164.

Mehta S, Judson MA, Chopra A. A 54-Year-Old Man with Recurrent Hemoptysis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Oct;22(10):1601-1604. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202410-1021CC. PMID: 41031791.

Masood L, Greenberg D, Pal A. Yellow Nail Syndrome: A Heart Failure Look Alike. CHEST, 168, A6365-A6366; October 2025.

Alrashdan R, Kassardjian E, Wong C. Myocarditis and Ards in a 21-Year-Old Patient with Influenza: A Case Report. CHEST, 168, A1667-A1668; October 2025.

Chopra A, Hu K, Feller-Kopman D, Judson MA. Pleural Fluid Analysis: Maximizing Diagnostic Yield in the Pleural Effusion Evaluation. Chest. 2025 Sep;168(3):828-838. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.06.001. Epub 2025 Jun 14. PMID: 40523559.

McKenna AM, Tiwari A, Chopra A, Foulke L, Crespo MM, Farber HW. Management of Pulmonary Granulomatous Venulitis by Lung Transplantation. Chest. 2025 Sep;168(3):e59-e63. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.02.040. PMID: 40935548.

Judson MA. Considering Impedance Oscillometry to Assess Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Taking a Break From Drinking the Spirometry Kool-Aid. Chest. 2025 Aug;168(2):283-284. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.03.005. PMID: 40784696.

Wong C., Madisi N. Predicting Treatment Response in Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Using Electrical Impedance Tomography. 8^th Annual Conference of AABIP 2025 Annual conference, Austin, TX; August 14-16, 2025.

Chopra A, Hu K, Gemoets DE, Judson MA. The Impact of Clinically Significant Pleural Effusion on Survival of US Veterans With Cancer, Congestive Heart Failure, and Pneumonia: The Veterans Administration Lung Effusion Study. Chest. 2025 Aug;168(2):531-538. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.02.003. Epub 2025 Feb 13. PMID: 39954847.

Halasa I, Dharia S, Kostowniak C, Bozell H, Hung K, Wong C, Khatim I, Albaba I, Kassardjian E, Wasim M, Adil I, Shkolnik B, Huggins T, Hu K, Chopra A. Role of ultrasound in differentiating simple parapneumonic from complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion. Respir Med. 2025 Oct;247:108295. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2025.108295. Epub 2025 Aug 13. PMID: 40769400.

Madisi NY, Silverstein S, Hombal K, Sharma M, Chung J, Schwalk A, Backer ED. Delayed Atelectasis After Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Current Practice Evaluation: Survey Among American Bronchoscopy Practioners. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2025 May 9;32(3):e1009. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000001009. PMID: 40341342.

Ramirez LE, Foyt AK, Darwish N, Foulke L, Kostowniak C, Chopra A. A rare case of miliary blastomycosis. Respir Med Case Rep. 2025 Apr 3;55:102203. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2025.102203. PMID: 40242805; PMCID: PMC12000732.

Khatim I, Albaba I, Judson MA, Hu K, Ali S, Singh H, Syed K, Koo M, Yung T, Feustel P, Patel R, Siskin G, Chopra A. Pleural complications in patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing percutaneous cryoablation: A retrospective analysis of its incidence and risk factors. Am J Med Sci. 2025 Mar;369(3):334-338. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2024.09.003. Epub 2024 Sep 16. PMID: 39293739.

2024

Daniel Greenberg, Sunny Dharia, Ibrahim Khatim, Thomas Glozman, Adil Inayatullah, Issam Halasa, et. al. Prevalence and Outcomes of Nonexpandable Lung in Pleural Infection. CHEST, Vol. 166 Issue 4, Supplement A3697–A3698, Published in issue: October 2024.

Hanna Bozell, Christina Wong, Ibrahim Khatim, Sunny Dharia, Thomas Glozman, Adil Inayatullah, et. al. The Prognostic Utility of Ultrasonography in Patients with Pleural Infections: A Prospective Single-Center Study. CHEST, Vol. 166, Issue 4, SupplementA4044–A4045, Published in issue: October 2024.

Issam Halasa, Ibrahim Khatim, Sunny Dharia, Thomas Glozman, Adil Inayatullah, Simrin Kooner, et. al. Relationship Between Sonographic Features and Pleural Fluids Analysis in Pleural Infection. CHEST, Vol. 166, Issue 4, Supplement A3752–A3753, Published in issue: October 2024.

Jae K. Chung, Kurt Hu, Alexander Hay, Vadim Divilov, Nagendra Y. Madisi, Amit Chopra. Frequency and Outcome of Pressure-Dependent and Pressure-Independent Pneumothorax After Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction. CHEST Journal, Obstructive Lung Disease, Volume 166, Issue 4, Supplment, A4755; October 2024.

Sana Ali, Jae K. Chung, Sunny Dharia, Camille Dumas, Nagendra Y. Madisi. Are Rare Case of Acquired Lobar Emphysema Treated Successfully with Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction. CHEST Journal, Procedures, Volume 166, Issue 4, Supplement, A5207-A5208; October 2024.

Chopra A, Feller-Kopman D. Neglect of Pleural Fluid Analysis. Chest. 2024 Aug;166(2):259-261. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.04.004. PMID: 39122301.

Gosmanova EO, Gemoets DE, Dharia S, Der Mesropian P, Shaikh G, Kovesdy CP, Phelps KR. Determinants of the serum phosphate concentration in chronic kidney disease. Clin Nephrol. 2024 Feb;101(2):82-92. doi: 10.5414/CN111260. PMID: 38085074.

Anuraag Sah, Sana Ali, Hannah Bozell, Amit Chopra. Diagnostic Accuracy of Transthoracic Echo in Discriminating Congestive Heart Failure-Related Pleural Effusions from Noncongestive Heart Failure-Related Pleural Effusions. CHEST, Vol. 166, Issue 4, Supplement A3793, Published in issue: October 2024.

Khatim I, Albaba I, Judson MA, Hu K, Ali S, Singh H, Syed K, Koo M, Yung T, Feustel P, Patel R, Siskin G, Chopra A. Pleural complications in patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing percutaneous cryoablation: A retrospective analysis of its incidence and risk factors. Am J Med Sci. 2024 Sep 16:S0002-9629(24)01447-2. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2024.09.003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39293739.

Wong C, Chung JK, Hu K, Chopra A. A 24-Year-Old Woman With Refractory Hypoxemia. Chest. 2024 Apr;165(4):e113-e117. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.051. PMID: 38599755.

Greenberg DJ, Sah A, Chopra A, Madisi N. A 24-year-Old woman with recurrent pneumothoraces. Respir Med Case Rep. 2024 Mar 27;49:102015. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2024.102015. PMID: 38596619; PMCID: PMC11002301.

Greenberg DJ, Ali S, Chopra A, Madisi N. Sarcoidosis associated pleural effusion: A case series and review. Respir Med Case Rep. 2024 Feb 13;48:101995. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2024.101995. PMID: 38390221; PMCID: PMC10881429.

Sah A, Sofia D, Vohra C, Chopra A. A 36-Year-Old Male With Left-Sided Neck Pain and Progressive Dyspnea. Chest. 2024 Jun;165(6):e169-e172. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.01.034. PMID: 38852973.

Chopra A, Hu K. Are We Choosing the Most Cost-Effective Treatment Option for the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions? Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Jun;21(6):854-855. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202403-266ED. PMID: 38819139; PMCID: PMC11160128.

Anuraag Sah, Daniel Sofia, Chirag Vohra, Amit Chopra. A 36-Year-Old Male with Left-Sided Neck Pain and Progressive Dyspnea. CHEST, Volume 165, Issue 6, 2024, Pages e169-e172, ISSN 0012-3692, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2024.01.034.

Wong C, Chung JK, Hu K, Chopra A. A 24-Year-Old Woman with Refractory Hypoxemia. Chest. 2024 Apr;165(4):e113-e117. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.051. PMID: 38599755.

2023

Jeny F, Vucinic V, Zhou Y, Valeyre D, Bhattacharyya P, Bickett AN, Judson MA, Obi ON,Talwar D, Strambu I, Lower EE, Baughman RP. Validation of the Sarcoidosis Diagnostic Score (SDS) in a multinational study. Ann AM Thorac Soc 2023; 20:371-380.

Wu GP, Shkolnik B. Noninvasive Ventilation Alone Cannot Solve COVID-19 Respiratory Failure. Ann Emerg Med. 2023 Feb;81(2):159-161.

Judson MA. Deconstructing multiorgan sarcoidosis. J Clin Med 2023; 12:2290 (Editorial).

Judson MA, Spagnolo P, Stanfel R, Farrow G, Tanase AM, Perna F, Baughman RP. Living with sarcoidosis: Virtual roundtable dialogue with patients and healthcare professionals. Respir Med Respir Med 2023; 210:107174.

Mehta S, Lightle A, Judson MA. Renal sarcoidosis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2023; 38:803-810.

Oweis J, Leamon A, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Goodspeed K, Khorolsky C, Feustel P, Naseer U, Albaba I,Parimi AS, Shkolnik B, Tiwari A, Chopra A, Torosoff M. Influence of right ventricular structure and function on hospital outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Heart Lung 2023; 57:19-24.

Tehzeeb J, Divilov V, Htoo A, Sajjadi F, Chopra A. A 21-year-old Hispanic woman presenting with cutaneous and pulmonary nodules. Chest 2023; 163:e167-e171.

Judson MA. Why doesn’t anyone want to cure sarcoidosis?: The neglect of disease termination. Respir Med 2023; 213:107063 (Editorial).

Judson MA. The management of sarcoidosis in the 2020’s by the primary care physician. Am J Med 2023; 136:534-544.

Klein RA, Judson MA, Barkes R, Maier LA, Zeigler J, Culver DA, Sweiss N, Chen ES, Hamzeh N, Grutters JC, Valyere D, Singh N, Spitzer V, Shivas T, Baughman RP, FSR Clinical Studies network. Activity tracking devices in sarcoidosis. Sarc Vac Diff Lung Dis 2023; 40:e2023010.

Judson MA. The relationship between sarcoidosis organ involvement, environment, race, and genetics: There’s a signal, but fine tuning is needed. Lung 2023; 201:253-254 (Editorial).

Judson MA, Lower EE, Chen ESm Sparks JA, Farmer JR, Baughman RP. Sarcoidosis. In: A Clinician’s Pearls and Myths in Rheumatology. Stone JH ed. Springer Nature, Switzerland 2023. Chapter 48: pp 667-686.

Vagts C, Sweis JJG, Sweis NWG, Ascoli C, Rottoli P, Martone FM, Wells AU, Judson MA, Sweiss NJ, Lower EE, Baughman RP. Initial behaviors and attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine in sarcoidosis patients: results of a self-reporting questionnaire. Sarc Vac Diff Lung Dis 2023; 40:e2023012.

Khatim Ibrahim, Salick Muhammad, Htoo Arkar, Chopra Amit. A 61-Year-Old Man with Shortness of Breath and Eye Swelling. CHEST 2023; May 2023. 163. e219-e222. 10.1016/j.chest.2022.11.020.

Ghalib S, Itty R, Parimi SA, Abdelwahab H, Saha BK, Beegle S. A 52-Year-Old Man Who Smokes with Rapidly Progressive Respiratory Failure. Chest. 2023 Mar;163(3):e119-e123. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2022.10.006. PMID: 36894266.

Dhooria S, Chopra A, Munavvar M. Editorial: Pulmonary sarcoidosis. Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Mar 29;10:1177797. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1177797. PMID: 37064026; PMCID: PMC10090693.

Petkovich BW, McManigle WC, Chopra A, Huggins JT. Why do two procedures when one will do? Thoracic ultrasound guiding management of complex pleural space infections. Respir Med Case Rep. 2023 Mar 8;43:101832. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2023.101832. PMID: 36942162; PMCID: PMC10023932.

Chong WH, Saha BK, Beegle S. Chronic dyspnea with Raynaud's phenomenon and elevated ANA: A diagnosis of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma. Am J Med Sci. 2023 Feb;365(2):198-204. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.01.023. Epub 2022 Mar 8. PMID: 35276077.

Mathai C, Jourd’heuil F, Pham LGC, Guillard K, Howard D, Bainis J, Jaitovich A, Chittur SV, Rilley M, Peredo-Winde R, Ammoura I, Shin SJ, Barraso M, Barra J, Shiskova E, Coon JJ, Lopez-Soler RI, Jourd’heuil D. Regulation of DNA damage and transcriptional output in the vasculature through a cytoblobin-HMGB2 axis. Redox Biology 2023; 65:102838.

Shkolnik B, Rou S, Salick M, Kobbari G, Ghalib, S, Parimi AS, Fish KM, DeLuca R, Yucel R, Judson MA. The relationship between serum angiotensin converting enzyme level and the decision to escalate treatment of sarcoidosis. Lung 2023; 201:381-386.

Johansson MW, Balnis J, Muehlbauer LK, Bukhman YV, Stefely MS, Overmeyer KA, Vancavage R, Tiwari A, Adhikari AR, Feustel PJ, Schwartz BS, Coon JJ, Stewart R, Jaitovich A, Mosher DF. Decreared plasma cartilage acidic protein 1 in COVID-19. Physiolgical Rep. 2023; 11:e15814.

Chopra A, Doeklen P, Hu K, Judson MA. Pressure-dependent pneumothorax and air leak– Physiology and Clinical Implications. Chest 2023; 164:796-805.

Khatim I, Judson MA, Htoo A, Chopra A. A 74-year-old man with dyspnea. CHEST 2023;164:e-75-e78.

Case AH, Beegle S, Hotchkin DL, Kaelin T, Kim HJ, Podolanczuk AJ, Ramaswamy M, Remolina C, Salvatore MM, Tu C, de Andrade JA. Defining the pathway to timely diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease: a US Delphi survey. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2023 Nov 24;10(1):e001594. doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2022-001594. PMID: 38007235; PMCID: PMC10680004.

Judson, MA. The symptoms of pulmonary sarcoidosis. J Clin Med 2023; 12:6008.

Judson MA, Qiu J, Dumas CL, Yang J, Sarachan B, Mitra J. An artificial intelligence platform for the radiologic diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis: An initial pilot study of chest computed tomography analysis to distinguish pulmonary sarcoidosis from a negative lung cancer screening scan. Lung 2023; 201:611-616.

Huggins JT, Chopra A, Doelken P. 2023. Pleural effusion in critically ill patients. Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine 9th edition Chapter 176 page 1704-1720.

Balnis J, Lauria EJM, Yucel R, Singer HA, Alisch RS, Jaitovich A. Peripheral blood omics and other multiplex-based technologies in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Am J Resp Cell Mol Biology, 69:383-90 (2023).

Chong WH, Saha BK, Beegle S. Chronic dyspnea with Raynaud's phenomenon and elevated ANA: A diagnosis of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma. Am J Med Sci. 2023 Feb;365(2):198-204.

Azar I, Austin A, Saha BK, Kim S, Jang H, Sbihi AA, Alkassis S, Yazpandanah O, Chi J, Dhillon V,

Metha HJ, Chopra A, Neu K, Mehdi SA, Mamdani H. The role of surgery in stage I small cell lung cancer:

Clinical Lung cancer 2023; 24:e179-e186.

William McManigle, Brad Petkovich, Harrison Smith, Amit Chopra, John T. Huggins. Ultrasound-guided pleural biopsy following a non-diagnostic thoracentesis for non-small cell lung cancer, Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, Volume 45, July 2023, 101875, ISSN 2213-0071.

Book and UpToDate Chapters

Huggins JT, Chopra A, Doelken P. 2023. Pleural effusion in critically ill patients. Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine 9th edition -Chapter 176, pages 17-4-1720.
Church LWP, Chopra A, Judson MA. 2017. Paradoxical reactions and the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Microbiol Spectrum 5(1):TNMI7-0033-2016.

2022

Powassan virus encephalitis: Single center experience from capital district of New York. Al-Tarbsheh AH, Jain E, Austin A, Ramani A, Giampa J, Dawani O, Robeldo FMS, Chopra A. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Jul 22:S0002-9629(22)00288-9. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.06.011. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35878736 No abstract available.
A 28-Year-Old Man With Diffuse Bilateral Pulmonary Nodules. Pokhrel K, Barry S, Ibrahim A, Smith T, Chopra A. Chest. 2022 Jul;162(1):e9-e13. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.02.022. PMID: 35809963
A 24-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea and a Broken Left Femur. Chieng H, Saha B, Foulke L, Wu GP, Chopra A. Chest. 2022 Apr;161(4):e225-e231. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.10.026. PMID: 35396056
Comparison of clinical characteristics and outcomes of Covid-19 patients undergoing early versus late intubation from initial hospital admission: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Chong WH, Saha BK, Murphy DJ, Chopra A. Respir Investig. 2022 May;60(3):327-336. doi: 10.1016/j.resinv.2022.02.007. Epub 2022 Mar 31. PMID: 35367154 Free PMC article. Review.
Pericardial effusion in Covid-19 patients. Al-Tarbsheh AH, Leamon A, Chong WH, Chung JK, Oweis J, Vamshek S, Dawani O, Chopra A. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Jul;364(1):129-130. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.01.024. Epub 2022 Mar 8. PMID: 35276074 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Clinical Outcomes of Early Versus Late Intubation in Covid-19 Patients. Al-Tarbsheh A, Chong W, Oweis J, Saha B, Feustel P, Leamon A, Chopra A. Cureus. 2022 Jan 27;14(1):e21669. doi: 10.7759/cureus.21669. eCollection 2022 Jan. PMID: 35237472 Free PMC article.
Lipoid Pneumonia. Chieng HC, Ibrahim A, Chong WH, Freed H, Fabian T, Saha B, Foulke L, Chopra A. Am J Med Sci. 2022 May;363(5):452-455. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.01.019. Epub 2022 Feb 5. PMID: 35134372 Review.
A 26-year old young male with severe anemia. Salick M, Chaudhary R, Robledo FM, Datar PB, Htoo A, Shkolnik B, Chong WH, Chopra A, Saha BK. Respir Med Case Rep. 2022 Jan 5;36:101575. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101575. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35036305 Free PMC article.
Sarcoidosis associated pleural effusion: Clinical aspects. Chopra A, Foulke L, Judson MA. Respir Med. 2022 Jan;191:106723. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2021.106723. Epub 2021 Dec 20. PMID: 34954636 Review.
Association between Drainage-Dependent Prolonged Air Leak after Partial Lung Resection and Clinical Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study. Chopra A, Hu K, Judson MA, Fabian T, Nabagiez JP, Feustel PJ, Fantauzzi J, Chieng H, Austin A, Vancavage R, Maldonado F, Rahman N, Huggins JT, Doelken P. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Mar;19(3):389-398. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202103-235OC. PMID: 34715010

Curriculum

Albany Stratton VA Medical Center

Weekly Conferences

National & Regional Meeting Opportunities

Research & Scholarly Activities