Customized Training for the Career You Want

With a minimum of nine months of direct clinical training in interventional pulmonology, ample opportunity exists to customize your experience through additional electives with a variety of services, including thoracic surgery, otolaryngology, interventional radiology, oncology and others. 

Didactic Experiences

Fellows attend a weekly interventional pulmonary conference with dedicated time to covering core topics through didactics, board review questions, presentation development and journal review. Fellows also attend a weekly multidisciplinary tumor board conference to coordinate care for complex oncology patients with thoracic surgery, oncology, radiation oncology and interventional radiology. 

Clinical Experiences

A wide breadth of patients referred from across the Midwest ensures broad clinical inpatient and outpatient training at UW Health University Hospital in partnership with the UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center.

You will experience the full breadth of interventional pulmonary procedures during your training including: 

  • Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
  • ION robotic navigation bronchoscopy with 3D C-arm support
  • Laser debridement using YAG, CO2 and Homium
  • Debridement with snare electrocautery and argon plasma coagulation
  • Cryodebridment, cryotherapy, and cryobiopsy
  • Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
  • Medical thoracoscopy
  • Rigid bronchoscopy
  • Airway dilation and stent placement

This experience guarantees the necessary procedural experience to sit for the AABIP boards.

Scholarly Activity

Fellows actively participate in a research project during training, and we encourage you to partner with our investigators. You’ll contribute to research progress and learn how to develop, run, and perform statistical analysis for investigations. Most fellows deliver at least one national-level presentation at a prominent meeting, such as AABIP or Chest.

You'll also have opportunities to teach pulmonary and critical care fellows and internal medicine residents throughout your fellowship.