Heyi Li
<p>Heyi Li, MD, is an attending physician and Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus is on the management of acute and chronic disorders of the lung and breathing, such as chronic obstructive lung diseases, asthma, interstitial lung diseases, infectious lung diseases and lung nodules. She performs airway and chest procedures including bronchoscopies and thoracentesis, and also provides consultations on smoking cessation and respiratory rehabilitation.</p><p>After earning her Bachelor of Engineering degree at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2011, she continued her education with the institution’s School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 2015. Dr Li’s postdoctoral training brought her to the United States, completing a three-year residency in internal medicine at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in 2019 and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota in 2022.</p><p>Dr. Li’s clinical research focuses on care delivery research and implementation science. Her goal is to develop a mature line of inquiry in implementation science, focused on both conceptual frameworks and pragmatic implementation strategies. She has shared her work through peer-reviewed journals and has presented it at regional and national conferences. Dr. Li has also been a periodic reviewer for <em>Critical Care Medicine</em> and the <em>American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine</em>.</p><p>Dr. Li is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.</p>
Shudan Wang
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dr. Wang is an Attending Physician in the Division of Rheumatology at Montefiore Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in both internal medicine and rheumatology and currently sees patients at the Montefiore Westchester Practice at Taxter Road. Dr. Wang has an expertise in lupus and lupus related kidney disease. She is also skilled to see a wide range of other rheumatologic diseases, including but not limited to antiphospholipid syndrome, Sjogren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, <span style="color: black;">spondyloarthropathy</span> and psoriatic arthritis, vasculitis, myositis, polymyalgia rheumatica, scleroderma and osteoarthritis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dr. Wang graduated from McGill University with a major in Physiology and Statistics in 2009. Dr. Wang received her medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2013. She subsequently completed her internal medicine residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell in 2016, followed by a fellowship in Rheumatology at New York University Hospital in 2018. Dr. Wang obtained a MS in clinical research from the Albert Einstein Clinical Research Training Program in 2021. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: .5in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dr. Wang's research interest is in lupus, focused on the role of the complement system in lupus related kidney disease. Dr. Wang is supported by the NIH KL2 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Grant and the Rheumatology Research Foundation K-Bridge Grant to investigate complement biomarkers in lupus nephritis using various translational approaches including immunohistochemistry, urine proteomics and single cell RNA sequencing. Dr. Wang has experience working with large cohorts and databases, recruiting patients for the Einstein Rheumatic Disease Registry and serve as sub-investigator for lupus clinical trials. She has published first author papers in prestigious journals, presented her academic work at national meetings and served on NIH and CDC study sections. She was recognized by American College of Rheumatology as a Distinguished Fellow nationally for translational research and clinical excellence in 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Wang Shudan</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">, Wu M, Chiriboga L, Zeck B, Goilav B, Wang Shuwei, Jimenez-Londono A, </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Putterman C, Schwartz D, Pullman J, Broder A, HM Belmont. Membrane Attack Complex (MAC) Deposition in Renal Tubules is Associated with Interstitial Fibrosis/Tubular Atrophy: A Pilot Study. <em>Lupus Science & Medicine. </em>2022 Jan; 9(1). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Tagoe, CE, Wang W, <strong>Wang S</strong>, Barbour K. Association of anti-thyroid antibodies with radiographic knee osteoarthritis and chondrocalcinosis: a NHANES III study. <em>Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease. </em>2021 Aug 4; 13. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Guerrero, MS, Londono, A, Dobrowolski C, Mowrey WB, Goilav B, <strong>Wang S</strong>, Broder A. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Activity and Hydroxychloroquine Use Before and After End-Stage Renal Disease. <em>BMC Nephrology</em>. 2020 Oct 28; 21(1): 450.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Wang S, </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Wu M, Pillinger MH, Krasnokutsky, S, and Barbour K. The Association between Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia and Knee Osteoarthritis: Data from Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. <a title="Osteoarthritis and cartilage." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+Association+between+Asymp… class="highlight"><em><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Osteoarthritis</span></em></span><em> Cartilage.</em></a> 2019 Sep;27(9):1301-1308. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Wang S, </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Wu M, Chiriboga L, Zeck B, HM Belmont. Membrane Attack Complex (MAC) Deposition in Lupus Nephritis is Associated with Hypertension and Poor Clinical Response to Treatment. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2018; 48(2): 256-262.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Wang S, </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Broder N, Marchetta P, Nowatzky J. Myelodysplastic syndrome presenting as a Behcet’s like syndrome with aortitis. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BMJ Case Rep. 2018 March 15. </em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Oshima-Takane Y, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wang S</strong>, Takane M and Takane, Y. T</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">he Acquisition of Personal Pronouns in English: Neural Network Stimulations. S<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tudies in Language Sciences. 2014, Jan: 13 (53-69).</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Sleat DE, Ding L, <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wang S, </strong>Zhao C, Wang Y, Zheng H, Moore DF, Sims KB, Lobel P<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </strong>Mass spectrometry-based protein profiling to determine the cause of lysosomal storage disease of unknown etiology. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mole Cell Proteomics</em>. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2009 Jul; 8(7): 1708-18.</em> </span></p>
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Clement E. Tagoe
<p>Dr. Clement Tagoe obtained his medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Leeds, UK. His basic science research interests included the study of the role of annexins in cell function and rheumatic diseases, and subsequently the mechanisms of disease in transthyretin amyloidosis using several animal models of transthyretin amyloidosis. His clinical work in the area of transthyretin amyloidosis has greatly illuminated our understanding of the form of amyloidosis associated with the Transthyretin V122I (pV142I) mutation, which is found in about 3 to 4% of African Americans. His current work focuses on the role of autoimmune diseases in fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain, and in particular the association of these syndromes with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). His work also explores the other musculoskeletal and rheumatic manifestations of autoimmune thyroid disease, including the association with peripheral osteoarthritis and spinal osteoarthritis. These autoimmune syndromes can occur in the absence of thyroid dysfunction and are of particular interest to physicians and patients because AITD is by far the commonest autoimmune disease.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Selected Bibliography</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Clement E. Tagoe, Tejas Sheth, Eugeniya Golub, Karen Sorensen (2019) Rheumatic associations of autoimmune thyroid disease: a systematic review Clin Rheumatol. 2019 Jul;38(7):1801-1809., (1-9) DOI: 10.1007/s10067-019-04498-1</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Kavisha Patel, Clement Tagoe, Phyllis Bieri, Karen Weidenheim & James M. Tauras (2018): A case of transthyretin amyloidosis with myopathy, neuropathy, and cardiomyopathy resulting from an exceedingly rare mutation transthyretin Ala120Ser (c.418G > T, p.Ala140Ser), Amyloid, DOI: 10.1080/13506129.2018.1491398</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Daniel R. Jacobson, Alice A. Alexander, Clement Tagoe, W. Timothy Garvey, Scott M.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Williams, Sara Tishkoff, David Modiano, Sodiomon Bienvenu Sirima, Issa Kalidi, Toure A, & Joel N. Buxbaum. The Prevalence and Distribution of the Amyloidogenic Transthyretin (TTR) V122I Allele in Africa Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine Epub 14 July, 2016 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.231</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Asha Shrestha, Hillel W. Cohen, Clement E. Tagoe. Association of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease With A Higher Frequency Of Spinal Degenerative Disc Disease Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2016 Mar-Apr;34(2):296-302. Epub 2016 Feb 9. PMID: 26885680</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Tagoe CE, Zezon A, Khattri S. Rheumatic manifestations of autoimmune thyroid disease: the other autoimmune disease. J Rheumatol. 2012 Jun;39(6):1125-9. Epub 2012 Apr 15.</p>
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Sarah Sungurlu
Kate R. Steinberg
Simon D. Spivack
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<p>Focusing diagnostics and therapeutics on those most likely to benefit is a key to successful intervention at both the public health and clinical levels. The translational goal of the Spivack laboratory is to identify individuals at particularly high risk for lung malignancy, and selected non-malignant lung diseases, upon whom to focus smoking/toxin exposure cessation (primary prevention), chemoprevention (secondary prevention), and early disease detection efforts (disease screening, tertiary prevention).</p>
<p>The laboratory is currently exploring individual Gene x Environment signatures as susceptibility markers by exploring quantitative gene (mRNA) expression phenotypes, and the DNA sequence, methylation, microRNA, and other epigenetic features potentially underlying these expression phenotypes, <em>in vitro</em> and in human populations. This is performed in the setting of defined tobacco, diet, and other exposures. There are both mechanistic and translational components to the studies. </p>
<p><br /><strong>Mechanistically</strong>, the role of epigenetic variation in promoter regions in the 5' and 3' regulatory regions of carcinogenesis and oxidant pathway genes is being explored <em>in vitro</em>, using human genomic DNA reporter constructs, and native gene regulation models. High resolution technologies include the realtime quantitation of native mRNA and microRNA by the laboratory's RNA-specific strategy (<em>patented</em>); the tagged-bisulfite genomic sequencing strategy to determine single base resolution CpG methylation status (tBGS, <em>patented</em>); an experimental strategy for assaying microRNA binding to mRNA, for determining the role of miRNA in candidate gene regulation (<em>patented</em>); and evaluation of functional consequences of DNA methylation detail, using a novel patch reporter construct (<em>patented</em>). A new method to engineer methyl-cytosines into the epigenome has recently been developed.</p>
<p>Whole (epi)genome approaches to identify molecular events unique to lung cancer are being completed, which will represent one of the initial cross-platform 'omics level discovery examinations of lung tissues. The execution of each individual discovery platform involves expert local collaborators and cores in (epi)genetics and genomics, and the "integromics" is critically reliant on Einstein strengths in informatics and biostatistical analyses.</p>
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<p><strong>Translationally</strong>, human lung carcinogenesis biomarkers are being established by pairing laser capture microdissected lung with several unique, non-invasively collected surrogate specimens developed in the laboratory. These include mRNA expression signatures from brush-exfoliated buccal mucosa cells, microRNAs detected in exhaled breath condensate representing first reports for a new exhaled airway biomarker class, and exhaled metabolomic signatures. These airway-derived specimens continue to accrue from a sampling (currently n>1000) of a population assembled in a lung cancer case-control context. The specimens are being studied with a view toward developing non-invasive assays in populations.</p>
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<p>The overall aim is to develop informative non-invasive risk profiling, preventive, and early disease detection strategies for the lung in human populations.</p>
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<p> <em>Work is funded by ongoing NIH,</em><em> DoD, and Foundation support.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Clinical Specialties</strong></p>
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<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">lung nodule evaluation</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">lung cancer diagnostics and screening</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">interstitial lung disease</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">environmental lung disease</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">refractory asthma</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 12px 0px 5px 0px;">general pulmonary medicine</li>
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Genome-wide surveys of lung epithelia. Translational lung studies. Mechanistic studies in functional epigenetics.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">A researcher and clinician, Dr. Spivack is developing tests for detecting lung cancer at the earliest possible stage—before it becomes fatal by spreading to other parts of the body. In one of several NIH-funded studies, his laboratory is working on a noninvasive, early-diagnosis test for lung cancer that detects particular genetic elements and chemicals in exhaled breath.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.6pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">In addition to general pulmonary medicine, Dr. Spivack’s clinical practice focuses on lung nodule and lung cancer diagnosis, diffuse interstitial lung diseases, and environmental lung diseases.</span></p>
Dr. Spivack specializes in consultative pulmonary medicine, with an emphasis on the evaluation of lung nodules, lung cancer screening, asthma, and environmental and interstitial lung disease.<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;"><strong></strong></span>
Dr. Spivack’s research focuses on the development of non-invasive early detection airway biomarkers of lung cancer risk, as well as epigenetics, gene regulation, gene-environment interaction and non-invasive measurement of deep lung phenomena in humans.
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Selected Publications, as of April, 2023</span>:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Shi M, Han W, Loudig O, Shah C, Dobkin J, Keller S, Sadoughi A, Patel D, Desai A, Gombar S, Suh Y, Fernandez MK, DeLaRosa L, Wang T, Hosgood D, Pradhan K, Ye K, </span><strong style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Spivack SD.</strong><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(2023) Initial development and testing of an exhaled microRNA detection strategy for lung cancer case-control discrimination</span><em style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. [accepted, Scientific Reports, NPG]</em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.7pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #212121; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Huang Z, Sun S, Lee M, Maslov AY, Shi M, Waldman S, Marsh A, Siddiqui T, Dong X, Peter Y, Sadoughi A, Shah C, Ye K, *<strong>Spivack SD</strong>, *Vijg J. Single-cell analysis of somatic mutations in human bronchial epithelial cells in relation to aging and smoking. Nat Genet. 2022 Apr;54(4):492-498. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01035-w. Epub 2022 Apr 11. PMID: 35410377. (*co-senior authors).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN">Cleven KL, Ye K, Zeig-Owens R, Hena KM, Montagna C, Shan J, Hosgood HD 3rd, Jaber N, Weiden MD, Colbeth HL, Goldfarb DG, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>++, Prezant DJ++ (++co-senior authors). </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31126090"><span lang="EN" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Genetic Variants Associated with FDNY WTC-Related Sarcoidosis.</span></a><span lang="EN"> Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 May 23;16(10). pii: E1830. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16101830. PMID:31126090</span>.</p>
<p>Dong X, ShiN, LeeM, ToroR, Gravina S, Han W, Yasuda S, Wang T, Zhang Z, Vijg J, Suh Y, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> (2018) Global, integrated analysis of methylomes and transcriptomes from laser capture microdissected bronchial and alveolar cells in human lung. <em>Epigenetics </em>10.1080/15592294.2018.1441650, 2018.</p>
<p>Mullapudi N, Ye B, Suzuki M, Wang T, Fazarri M, Han W, Shi M, Marquardt G, Lin J, Wang T, Keller S, Zhu C, Locker J, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> Genome-wide methylome alterations in lung cancer <em> PLoS ONE, </em>Dec. 2015.</p>
<p>Lin J, Marquardt G, Mullapudi N, Wang, T, Han W, Shi W, Zhu C, Keller S, Zhu C, Locker J, <strong>Spivack SD. </strong>Lung cancer transcriptomes refined with laser capture microdissection.<em> Am J Pathology </em>06.028. 2014 .</p>
<p>Han W, Shi M, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Site-specific methylated reporter constructs for functional analysis of DNA methylation.<em> Epigenetics </em>4; 8(11), 2013.</p>
<p>Shi M, Han W, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. A quantitative method to identify miRNAs targeting an mRNA using a 3'UTR RNA affinity technique.<em> Analytic Biochem</em> 1;443(1):1-12, 2013<em>.</em></p>
<p>Alberg AJ, Brock MV, Ford JG, Samet JM, <strong>Spivack, SD.</strong> Epidemiology of lung cancer. In Evidence-based Practice Guidelines. Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer (ACCP position statement). <em>CHEST</em>. May 2013;143(5 Suppl):e1S-e29S. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-2345. PMID: 23649439.</p>
<p>Tan XT, Marquardt G, Shi M, Han W, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> High throughput library screening identifies phytochemical inducers of phase II mutagen/oxidant metabolism enzymes GSTP1 and NQO1 in human lung cells.<em> Am J Resp Cell Molec Biol, </em>46(3): 365-71, 2012.</p>
<p>Brock GJ, Moschos S, <strong>Sp</strong><strong>ivack SD,</strong> Hurteau GJ. The 3' prime paradigm of the miR-200 family and other microRNAs. <em>Epigenetics</em> (6:3, 1-5), 2011.</p>
<p>Tan XT, Shi M, Minna JD, Han W, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> Candidate phytopreventive agent modulation of phase II metabolism enzymes <em>GSTP1</em> and <em>NQO1</em> in human bronchial cells<em>. J Nutrition, </em>140(8): 1404-10, 2010<em>.</em></p>
<p>Tan, XT, Wang T, Xiong S, Kumar SV,<strong> </strong> Han W, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> Smoking-related gene expression in laser capture microdissected human lung. <em>Clin Cancer Res,</em> 15(24): 7562-70, 2009.</p>
<p>Han W, Tang T, Reilly AA, Keller S, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Gene promoter methylation analyses from exhaled breath, with differences in smokers and lung cancer cases. <em>Resp Res,</em> 10:86 epubl, 2009.</p>
<p>Tan X-L, Moslehi R, Han W, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms in the glutathione S-transferase P1 gene promoter and susceptibility to lung cancer. <em>Cancer Detection Prev,</em>32:403-415, 2009<em>.</em></p>
<p>Tan X-L, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Dietary chemoprevention strategies for induction of phase II metabolism: a review. <em>Lung Cancer,</em>65(2):129-37, 2009.</p>
<p>Hurteau GJ, Carlson AJ, <strong>Spivack, SD,</strong> Brock GJ. Restoration of E-Cadherin expression by over-expression of the microRNA <em>hsa-miR-200c</em> via reduced expression of the transcription factor TCF8. <em>Cancer Res.</em> 67:7972-76, 2007.</p>
<p>Hurteau, GJ, <strong>Spivack</strong> <strong>SD</strong>, Brock G. Parallel identification of miRNA and target mRNA by combined informatics and qRT-PCR approaches: application to <em>has-miR-200c.</em> <em>Cell Cycle</em> 5(17):1951-56, 2006.</p>
<p>Han W, Cauchi S, Herman JG, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Methylation mapping of DNA by tag-modified bisulfite genomic DNA sequencing. <em>Analytic Biochem. 355: 50-61,</em> 2006.</p>
<p>Cauchi S, Han W, Kumar SV, <strong>Spivack SD</strong>. Haplotype-environment interactions regulating the human <em>GSTP1</em> promoter <em>Cancer Res</em>. 66(12): 6439-6448, 2006.</p>
<p>Kumar SV, Hurteau GJ, <strong>Spivack SD.</strong> Validity of mRNA expression analyses of human saliva. <em>Clin. Cancer Res.</em> 12: 5033-39, 2006.</p>
<p><strong>Spivack SD</strong>, Hurteau GJ, Jain R, Kumar SV, Aldous KM, Gierthy JF, Kaminsky LS. Gene-environment interaction signatures by quantitative mRNA profiling in exfoliated buccal mucosal cells. <em>Cancer Res,</em> 64:6805-6813, 2004.</p>
<p><strong>Spivack SD</strong>, Hurteau GJ, Fasco MJ, Kaminsky LS. Phase I and II carcinogen metabolism gene expression in human lung tissue and tumors. <em>Clinical Cancer Research</em>, 9:6002-6011, 2003.</p>
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<p>Simon D. Spivack, MD, MPH, is Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology and Genetics at Montefiore Einstein. He is also former Emeritus Chief, Pulmonary Medicine. Clinically, Dr. Spivack specializes in consultative pulmonary medicine, with an emphasis on the evaluation of lung nodules, lung cancer screening, asthma, and environmental and interstitial lung disease. </p><p>After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1980, Dr. Spivack earned his Doctor of Medicine from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in 1985. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1988. Dr. Spivack then earned his Master of Public Health at Harvard University, School of Public Health in 1989. He completed a clinical pulmonary and critical care medicine and lung research fellowship at the University of Vermont in 1992. </p><p>Dr. Spivack’s research focuses on the development of non-invasive early detection airway biomarkers of lung cancer risk, as well as epigenetics, gene regulation, gene-environment interaction and non-invasive measurement of deep lung phenomena in humans. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, articles, chapters and books, and he has given many national/international presentations, organized symposia and visiting professorships. Dr. Spivack is on the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports and is a reviewer for journals such as <em>PLoS Genetics</em>, <em>Genetics in Medicine</em>, <em>Nature Protocols</em>, <em>American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine</em>, <em>Carcinogenesis</em>, <em>Cancer Research</em> and others. He holds multiple United States patents. He has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research for over 25 years.
</p><p>Dr. Spivack is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. He is a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Lung Association (ALA). He is a frequent peer-reviewer on various NIH study sections. In the past, Dr. Spivack won the Excellence in Research Award from ALA and the NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Clinical Scientist Development Award.
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Peter Kjeld Slotwiner-Nie
Chirag D. Shah
Ali Sadoughi
<p>Dr. Ali Sadoughi is Director of Interventional Pulmonology and Bronchoscopy. His clinical expertise is in interventional pulmonology and thoracic oncology, an evolving sub-specialty of pulmonary and critical care medicine. This field focuses on patients with benign and malignant chest diseases.</p>
<p>Dr. Sadoughi performs advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients with lung nodules/masses, intra-thoracic lymphadenopathy, pleural diseases, and severe asthma. These include:</p>
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<li>Sampling of pulmonary lesions; both peripherally and centrally located in the lung; using endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS, both radial and linear array probes) and navigational bronchoscopy</li>
<li>Therapeutic rigid and flexible bronchoscopy on patients with major airway disorders, including tumor de-bulking, airway dilatation and stent placement</li>
<li>Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on patients with pleural disease and effusion</li>
<li>Therapeutic interventions such as pleurodesis, tunneled pleural catheter and chest tube placement</li>
<li>Bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma </li>
<li>Endobronchial valve placement for persistent air leak from the lung</li>
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<p>His other experience is in ultrasonography and echocardiography and their applications in pulmonary and critical care medicine.</p>
<p>Dr. Sadoughi's research interests are in evolution and application of sophisticated and modern technologies for early and minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of different pulmonary diseases, from lung cancers, to airway disorders, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, respiratory failure, and pleural diseases. The outcome of his research studies in pulmonary hypertension and interventional pulmonology has been published in high-ranking medical journals and presented in different national conferences.</p>
<h3>Clinical Specialties</h3>
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<li>Pulmonary Medicine
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<li>Interventional Pulmonology</li>
<li>Lung Cancer</li>
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<li>Critical Care</li>
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<h3>Board Certification</h3>
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<li>Pulmonary Disease</li>
<li>Critical Care Medicine</li>
<li>Internal Medicine</li>
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<h3>Education & Training</h3>
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<li>Medical School: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences</li>
<li>Residency: Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center</li>
<li>Fellowship: Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine</li>
<li>Fellowship: Washington University in Saint Louis</li>
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<h3>Professional Memberships</h3>
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<li>American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (AABIP), Member</li>
<li>American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), Member</li>
<li>American Thoracic Society (ATS), Member</li>
<li>International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Member</li>
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Dr. Sadoughi specializes in interventional pulmonology, a subspecialty of pulmonary and critical care medicine that uses endoscopy and other minimally invasive tools to diagnose and treat patients with benign and malignant chest diseases.
<ol>
<li>Bronchomediastinal Fistula From Erosion of Surgical Pledgets Into the Airway, Sadoughi A, Meyers B, Chenna P, Chest. 2015;148:838A. doi:10.1378/chest.2261266</li>
<li>Obstruction of the Trachea with Necrotic Tissue from a Pleomorphic Lung Carcinoma, Sadoughi A, Hyman K, Patel D, Chest. 2014;146:768A. doi:10.1378/chest.1991851.</li>
<li>Diagnosis and Safe Ablation of Endobronchial Hamartoma with Interventional Bronchoscopy, Sadoughi A, Folch E, Majid A. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 189;2014:A4447.</li>
<li>Macrophage migration inhibitory factor mediates hypoxia- induced pulmonary hypertension, Yinzhong Zhang, Arunabh Talwar, Donna Tsang, Annette Bruchfeld, Ali Sadoughi, Maowen Hu, Kennedy Omonuwa, Kai Fan Cheng, Yousef Al-Abed, and Edmund J. Miller, Molecular Medicine, Nov 2011, PMID: 22113497.</li>
<li>Impaired Heart Rate Recovery After Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing [CPET] In Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Arunabh Talwar MD, Ali Sadoughi MD, Purvesh Patel MD, Tara George, Donna Tsang, Nina Kohn MS; Chest. 2011;140(4_MeetingAbstracts):723A. doi:10.1378/chest.1119783</li>
<li>A 77-year-old woman with dyspnea and Reynaud phenomenon. Wang J, Sadoughi A, Dedopoulos S, Talwar A, Chest. 2011 Apr;139(4):958-6. PMID: 21467065</li>
<li>Intracranial Pressure Treatment Tailored to Transcranial Doppler-Derived Compliance and Perfusion. Kapinos G, Sadoughi A, Narayan R, oral presentation, November 2013 at the 15th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring, Singapore.</li>
<li>Management of Increased Intracranial Pressure. Sadoughi A, Rybinnik I, Cohen R. The Open Critical Care Medicine Journal, 2013, 6, (Suppl 1: M4) 56-65.</li>
<li>Use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Outcomes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Sadoughi A, Roberts K, Preston I, Lai GP, Mcollister D, Farber HW, Hill NS, Chest. 2013 Apr 4. PMID: 23558791.</li>
<li>Inflammatory Mechanisms in Pulmonary Hypertension, A Sadoughi, Y Zhang, EJ Miller, A Talwar; <em>CML (Current Medical Literature) – Pulmonary Hypertension </em>2010;1(4):93–106.</li>
<li>Computed Tomography Angiogram of the Chest as a Valuable Predicting Tool for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, A Sadoughi, N Patel, J Wang, N Kohn, R Shah, A Talwar; Chest. 2010;138(4_MeetingAbstracts):357A. doi:10.1378/chest.10559</li>
<li>Arterial Concentration of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) increases with exercise in patients with pulmonary Hypertension (PH), A Sadoughi, EJ Miller, A Talwar, presented at FOCIS 2011, Washington, DC.</li>
<li>Utility of Pulmonary Artery Diameter in Computed Tomography of Chest as a screening tool for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, A Sadoughi, T Chandak, N Kohn, R Shah, A Talwar, Presented in ATS Meeting, May 2010.</li>
<li>Relationship of Pulmonary Arterial Oxygen Saturation with Right Atrial Pressure in Pulmonary Hypertension, T Chandak, A Sadoughi, N Kohn, A Talwar, Presented in ATS Meeting, May 2010.</li>
<li>A case of Portopulmonary Hypertension, Sadoughi A, Mukherji R, Mehra S, Talwar A, The Journal of Respiratory Diseases, September, 2008.</li>
<li>Arteriotomy Closure Device Application Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention May Prevent Bleeding Complication in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction, F. Ikeno, M. Ali Sadoughi, J. Lyons, F. Raissi, K. Pourdehmobed, V. Hashemi, S. Emami, H. Kaneda, A. C. Yeung, M. Rezaee, International J. of Cardiology, April 2007, 117(1), 131-132, PMID:16935367.</li>
<li>The Conversion in Application of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following the Introduction of Drug Eluting Stents, F. Ikeno, F. Raissi, M. Ali Sadoughi, J.K. Lyons, K. Pourdehmobed, V. Hashemi, S. Emami, H. Kanada, A.C. Yeung, M. Rezaee, International Journal of Cardiology, November 2006, 113(2), 279-280, PMID: 16318883.</li>
<li>Drug-eluting stents alter referral patterns for revascularization in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, HMO Farouque, Fearon WF, Wu BM, Luna J, Shabari FR, Sadoughi MA, Lee DP, Yeung AC, Heart, Lung, Circulation 2005; 14 Suppl 1: S77, Australia</li>
<li>Changes in the Practice of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following the Introduction of Drug Eluting Stents, Raissi F., Sadoughi M.A., Hashemi V., Pourdehmobed K., Farouque O., Lyons J., Emami S., Ikeno F., Kaneda H., Yeung A.C., Rezaee M., TCT (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics) meeting 2004, Washington DC, Poster Presentation, 09 / 2004.</li>
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<p>Ali Sadoughi, MD, is Director, Interventional Pulmonology and Bronchoscopy and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. He specializes in interventional pulmonology, a subspecialty of pulmonary and critical care medicine that uses endoscopy and other minimally invasive tools to diagnose and treat patients with benign and malignant chest diseases.</p><p>After earning his Doctor of Medicine at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Sadoughi completed an internal medicine residency at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Following this, he completed a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine in 2014 and an interventional pulmonary fellowship at Washington University in 2015.</p><p>Dr. Sadoughi's research interests are in developing and applying advanced technologies for early and minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases. These include lung cancers, airway disorders, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, respiratory failure and pleural diseases. His work has been published in journals including <em>Chest</em> and the <em>Journal of Molecular Medicine</em>, and he has made presentations at national and international medical meetings. One of his recent research studies focuses on the development of brachytherapy seeds (DaRT) using alpha radiation for the treatment of lung cancer, sponsored by Alpha Tau Ltd. In another study, he works with an international group of pulmonologists on the role of confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) in the diagnosis of different benign and malignant lung diseases. His work related to increased precision and accuracy of biopsy of peripheral lung nodules by intraprocedural 3D scanning in combination with ultrathin bronchoscopy has been published in the <em>Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology</em>. Another area of Dr. Sadoughi’s research involves the synergy of local therapies such as cryotherapy with immunotherapy in the treatment of lung cancer. He has presented this exciting topic at the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (AABIP) Conference in 2022.</p><p>Dr. Sadoughi is board certified in interventional pulmonology, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine and internal medicine. He is a member of professional societies such as the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, the World Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. He has contributed his research to the U.S. News, Politico New York and OncLive, and has been an editorial member and reviewer of multiple medical journals.</p>