Ali Y. Mansour
C<span style="color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">linical focus includes interventional pulmonary medicine, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, vascular medicine and sleep medicine.</span><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<span style="color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Mansour’s research focuses on lung transplant and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during critical illnesses from severe lung disease.</span><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>
<p style="padding-top:0px;color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">Ali Mansour, MD, is Medical Director, Advanced Pulmonary Failure and Lung Transplantation and Assistant Professor at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus includes interventional pulmonary medicine, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, vascular medicine and sleep medicine.</p><p style="padding-top:0px;color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">In 2000, Dr. Mansour received his Bachelor of Chemistry at the American University of Beirut. He continued his studies at this institution and received his Doctor of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Mansour began his postgraduate training in 2004 with a yearlong internship at the American University of Beirut Medical College. His training then took him to Kansas, where he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine in 2008 at the Kansas University Medical School. Following this, Dr. Mansour completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care that included advanced fellowship training in pulmonary transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine in 2011. In 2012, he completed a sleep fellowship at the University Hospital Case Western Medical Center. Dr. Mansour is board certified in echocardiography and vascular medicine and is accredited as an interventional pulmonologist.</p><p style="padding-top:0px;color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Mansour’s research focuses on lung transplant and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during critical illnesses from severe lung disease. He is also interested in lung cancer staging and advanced airway procedure to improve and prolong survival. More recently, he supervises numerous clinical studies and trials including novel therapies for SARS-CoV-2. His work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed publications, and he has been an invited speaker to numerous national oral presentations.</p><p style="padding-top:0px;color:#525458;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;">Dr. Mansour is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Thoracic Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.</p>
Michelle Ng Gong
<p>Dr. Gong is the Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, and Director of Critical Care Research at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor in Medicine and in Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After receiving an engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gong went on to earn a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the Beth Israel Hospital in medicine and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She also studied at the Harvard School of Public Health, receiving her Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology. Prior to coming to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She joined the Einstein/Montefiore faculty in July 2009.</p>
<p>Dr. Gong is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in critical care delivery and management of acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She has spent her career on improving outcomes in patients along the entire continuum of critical illness from its development to its progression and recovery with an overall focus on the prediction and prevention of acute organ failure and their complications. Nationally, she is a well-respected clinical researcher and trialist in acute injury and critical illness. Continuously funded by the NIH for over 20 years for her work, her research ranges from COVID-19 and ARDS to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza, big data and predictive analytics in risk prediction, and effective clinical decision support systems. Her research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. She has also been funded by the AHRQ on clinical decision making in ARDS and by the NHLBI for the Montefiore-Sinai Clinical Center for the PETAL Clinical Trials Network focused on the prevention and early treatment of ARDS.</p>
<p>A model clinician-researcher, her scientific projects influence her clinical care, and her patients motivates her research. So it is not surprising that some of her proudest achievements have occurred within her clinical work to improve outcomes for patients within Montefiore. This has included process improvement projects such as the implementation of sedation and delirium protocols and early mobilization in the medical intensive care unit that has reduced duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, hospital costs and ICU complications. She has also worked on the incorporation of artificial intelligence to help identify patients at increased risk of poor outcomes at Montefiore and evaluation of clinical decision support systems. She has co-authored the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines on management of patients with COVID-19, published in Intensive Care Medicine. </p>
<p>Dr. Gong is a well-regarded leader in the field of pulmonary and critical care medicine. She is a graduate of the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellowship and was the former or current chair of the Critical Care Planning Committee and the Critical Care Assembly for the American Thoracic Society. She is also on the Discovery Oversight Committee that helps plan the direction and agenda for the clinical trials initiative of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Gong was awarded the Gotham Icon Award for Champions and Change Makers of New York City by the Museum of the City of New York in 2020. Given her expertise, she has been named to multiple panels to develop clinical practice guidelines, including the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society clinical practice guidelines for liberation from mechanical ventilation and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe COVID-19 in 2020. In these leadership positions, she has had the fortune and privilege to mentor residents, fellows and junior investigators both within and beyond Montefiore into productive, academic careers in medicine.</p>
Dr. Gong’s clinical focus is on critical care delivery, predictive analytics, and process improvements, such as the implementation of sedation and delirium protocols and early mobilization in the medical intensive care unit, which has reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, hospital costs, and ICU complications.
Current research ranges from acute respiratory distress syndrome to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza, big data and predictive analysis in risk prediction, and effective clinical decision support systems.
<p>Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also the Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Associate Chief of Academic Affairs, and Director of Critical Care Research at Montefiore. Dr. Gong’s clinical focus is on critical care delivery, predictive analytics, and process improvements, such as the implementation of sedation and delirium protocols and early mobilization in the medical intensive care unit, which has reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, hospital costs, and ICU complications. She joined the Einstein/Montefiore faculty in July 2009.</p> <p>Dr. Gong received an Engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She then went on to earn her Doctor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Beth Israel Hospital in medicine and at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Gong studied at the Harvard School of Public Health, receiving her Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology. </p>Dr. Gong has spent her career improving outcomes in patients along the entire continuum of critical illness, from its development to progression and recovery, with an overall focus on the prediction and prevention of acute organ failure and its complications. Her current research ranges from acute respiratory distress syndrome to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza, big data and predictive analysis in risk prediction, and effective clinical decision support systems. Under her leadership, Montefiore/Einstein was selected as a clinical center for the NHLBI Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Clinical Trials Network which represents the first representation of a medical center from the New York and the tri-state area. Collaborating with the research informatics and healthcare industries, Dr. Gong has fostered the application of informatic approaches to drive improvement in healthcare delivery and research.</p><p>In 2013, Dr. Gong received the ATS Innovation in Fellowship Education Award. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Palliative Care Medicine, and Pulmonary Medicine. </p>
Daniel G. Fein
<p><strong>Education</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Daniel Fein completed a medical degree at NYU School of Medicine and an internal medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center. Following residency, he spent five months serving as medical director of the Hillside Health Care Center in Toledo, Belize, and completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.</p>
<p><strong>Administrative</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Fein is the director of inpatient pulmonary services for Montefiore Medical Center and the director of the medical and surgical intensive care unit at Montefiore Wakefield where he also serves as the site director for both pulmonary and critical care. Between 2019 and 2022 Dr. Fein served as the web director for the critical care assembly of the American Thoracic Society. </p>
<p><strong>Clinical Specialties</strong></p>
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<li>Emergency airway management </li>
<li>Ventilator management</li>
<li>Thoracic point of care critical care ultrasound </li>
<li>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</li>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;">Apter A, Cheng J, Small D, Bennett I, Albert C, <strong>Fein D</strong>, George M, Van Horne S. Asthma Numeracy Skill and Health Literacy. Journal of Asthma 2006;43:705-710. </span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sampat D, Filopei J, Rao P, <strong>Fein D</strong>, Acquah S. Full circle: Extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of the trachea. Lung Cancer. 2017 Sep;111:12-14.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Archontakis P, Palaiodimos L, Fleitas Sosa D, Benes L, Gulani P, <strong>Fein D</strong>. Combination of low-dose glucocorticosteroids and mineralocorticoids as adjunct therapy for adult patients with septic shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials and observational studies. </span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size: 11pt;">Avicenna J Med 2019;9:134-42.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein DG</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Eisen LA. Video Body Cameras Bridge the Gap Between Simulation and Patient Care During Emergency Airway Management. Chest 2020;158:24-5.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chua A, Murphy C, Hameed S, Weston G, Abramowitz M, Gershengorn H, <strong>Fein DG</strong>. Inferior vena cava filters do not increase the risk of bloodstream infections in patients with newly diagnosed VTE. Am J Infect Control. 2020: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.029. [Epub ahead of print]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kim Y, Dym AA, Yang K, <strong>Fein DG</strong>, et al. The Effect of Numbered Jerseys on Directed Commands, Teamwork, and Clinical Performance During Simulated Emergencies. J Healthc Qual 2021;43:24-31.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein DG</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Mastroianni F, Murphy CG, et al. Impact of a Critical Care Specialist Intervention on First Pass Success for Emergency Airway Management Outside the ICU. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:80-8.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein DG</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Zhao D, Swartz K, et al. The Impact of Nighttime on First Pass Success During the Emergent Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Patients. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:1498-506.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Goligher EC, Bradbury CA, McVerry BJ, et al. (collaborator) Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021;385:777-89.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, et al. (collaborator) Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021;385:790-802.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">et al. Critical Care Surge During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implementation and Feedback From Frontline Providers. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:233-40.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Russotto V, Myatra SN, Laffey JG, et al. (site principle investigator) Intubation Practices and Adverse Peri-intubation Events in Critically Ill Patients From 29 Countries. JAMA 2021;325:1164-72.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nauka PC, Chen JT, Shiloh AL, Eisen LA, <strong>Fein DG</strong>. Practice, Outcomes, and Complications of Emergent Endotracheal Intubation by Critical Care Practitioners During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chest 2021;160:2112-22.</span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein D</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Tofts R, Kory P. Thoracic Ultrasound Image Acquisition. Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Soni N, Arntfield R, Kory P. Saunders; 2014. </span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein D</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Verzosa S, Walker P. Cystic Lung Disease. Pulmonary Disease Examination and Board Review. Go R. McGraw Hill; 2016. </span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein D</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Verzosa S, Walker P. Bronchiectasis. Pulmonary Disease Examination and Board Review. Go R. McGraw Hill; 2016.</span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;">Fein DG</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;">, Zaidi AN, Sulica R. Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Common Respiratory Conditions: Classification, Evaluation and Management Strategies</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2016;26;5:9. </span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fein D</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Abbasi M. Thoracic Ultrasound Image Acquisition. Point-of-Care Ultrasound, second edition. Soni N, Arntfield R, Kory P. Saunders; 2019.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Douglas IS, Bednash JS, <strong>Fein DG</strong>, Mallampalli RK, Mansoori J, Gershengorn HB. Update in Critical Care / ARDS 2018. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Jun; 199:1335-1343. </span></p>
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<p>Daniel G. Fein, MD, is Director, Inpatient Pulmonary Services, Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Director, Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Fein’s clinical focus centers on emergency airway management, acute respiratory failure, shock and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.</p><p>After obtaining his Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University in 2002, Dr. Fein earned his Doctor of Medicine at New York University in 2008. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Boston University in 2011, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in 2015.</p><p>Dr. Fein’s research focus pertains to the practice and management of emergency airway management and acute respiratory failure. He has shared his work through numerous invited presentations, peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts. He has also been a reviewer for scientific journals including the <em>Journal of Clinical Medicine</em>, the <em>Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, CHEST Journal</em> and <em>BMJ Open Access</em>.</p><p>Dr. Fein is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). In 2021, Dr. Fein was recognized as a Leo M. Davidoff Society Honoree. In 2023, he received the Quality Improvement Champion Award from the United Hospital Fund Tribute to Excellence.</p>
Jay B. Dobkin
<p>Clinical Specialty Areas</p>
<ul>
<li>pulmonary function</li>
<li>general pulmonary medicine</li>
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<p> </p>
Rivkah G. Darabaner
Krystal L. Cleven
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: #fefefe;"><strong><span style="color: #373a3c;">Education:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: #fefefe;"><span style="color: #373a3c;">Dr. Cleven earned her medical degree from SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine. She later completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at the Northwell Health-North Shore/LIJ Hospital and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: #fefefe;"><strong><span style="color: #373a3c;">Research and Clinical Interests:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: #fefefe;"><span style="color: #373a3c;">Dr. Cleven has a strong research interest in the respiratory health of 9/11 FDNY first responders and has published her research on this topic. She specifically has an interest in post-9/11 sarcoidosis and other respiratory diseases such as asthma. Dr. Cleven is the pulmonary co-director of the Montefiore Asthma Center where she sees patients with severe asthma.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #373a3c;">1.<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></span><span style="color: #373a3c; background: #fefefe;">Respiratory health of 9/11 first responders</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: #fefefe;"><span style="color: #373a3c;">Dr. Cleven is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cohen HW, Zeig-Owens R, Joe C, Hall CB, Webber MP, Weiden MD, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Jaber N, Skerker M, Yip J, Schwartz T, Prezant DJ. <a style="color: #954f72;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31490535/">Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Firefighters After the World Trade Center Disaster</a>. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Sep 4;2(9):e199775. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9775.PMID: 31490535</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Ye K, Zeig-Owens R, Hena KM, Montagna C, Shan J, Hosgood HD 3rd, Jaber N, Weiden MD, Colbeth HL, Goldfarb DG, Spivack SD, Prezant DJ. <a style="color: #954f72;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31126090/">Genetic Variants Associated with FDNY WTC-Related Sarcoidosis</a>. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 May 23;16(10):1830. PMID: 31126090</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dicpinigaitis PV, Enilari O, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>. <a style="color: #954f72;" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30445192/">Prevalence of Arnold nerve reflex in subjects with and without chronic cough: Relevance to Cough Hypersensitivity Syndrome</a>. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2019 Feb;54:22-24. doi: 10.1016/j.pupt.2018.11.003. Epub 2018 Nov 13.PMID: 30445192</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hena KM, Yip J, Jaber N, Goldfarb D, Fullam K, <strong>Cleven K</strong>, Moir W, Zeig-Owens R, Webber MP, Spevack DM, Judson MA, Maier L, Krumerman A, Aizer A, Spivack SD, Berman J, Aldrich TK, Prezant DJ, FDNY Sarcoidosis Clinical Research Group (Christodoulou V, Hena Z, Plotycia SM, Soghier I, Gritz D, Acuna DS, Weiden MD, Nolan A, Diaz K, Ortiz V, Kelly K). <a style="color: #954f72;" title="Clinical Course of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center Exposed Firefighters" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29066387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinical Course of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center Exposed Firefighters</a>. Chest. 2018 Jan;153(1):114-123. PMID: 29066387</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Oks M, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Healy L, Wei M, Narasimhan M, Mayo PH, Kohn N, Koenig S. T<a style="color: #954f72;" title="he Safety and Utility of Phenobarbital Use for the Treatment of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the Medical Intensive Care Unit" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29925291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he Safety and Utility of Phenobarbital Use for the Treatment of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the Medical Intensive Care Unit</a>. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2018 Jan. PMID: 29925291</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Chua A, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Appel D. <a style="color: #954f72;" title="Chylothorax and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension after Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report." href="http://www.anncaserep.com/full-text/accr-v2-id1408.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chylothorax and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension after Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report</a>. Annals of Clinical Case Reports. 2017 Aug. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Webber MP, Zeig-Owens R, Hena KM, Prezant DJ. <a style="color: #954f72;" title="Airway Disease in Rescue/Recovery Workers: Recent Findings from the World Trade Center Collapse" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Airway+Disease+in+Rescue%2FRe…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Airway Disease in Rescue/Recovery Workers: Recent Findings from the World Trade Center Collapse</a>. Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. 2017 Jan;17(1):5. PMID: 28181152</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Oks M, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>,Cardenas-Garcia J, Schaub JA, Koenig S, Cohen RI, Mayo PH, Narasimhan M. Chest. <a style="color: #954f72;" title="The effect of point-of-care ultrasonography on imaging studies in the medical ICU: a comparative study." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=he+effect+of+point-of-care+ul…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">The effect of point-of-care ultrasonography on imaging studies in the medical ICU: a comparative study.</a> 2014 Dec;146(6). PMID: 25144593</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Mackiewicz KL, Sarinopoulos I, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Nitschke JB. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <a style="color: #954f72;" title="The effect of anticipation and the specificity of sex differences for amygdala and hippocampus function in emotional memory." href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=The+effect+of+anticipation+an…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">The effect of anticipation and the specificity of sex differences for amygdala and hippocampus function in emotional memory</a>. 2006 Sep; 103(38): 14200-14205. PMID: 16963565</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Simon Spivack, <strong>Krystal Cleven</strong>, Miao Shi, Cristina Montagna, Jidong Shan, Dhruv Patel, Aditi Desai, Jidong Shan, Qian Ye, Kerry Hena, David Goldfarb, Jenn Yip, Rachel Zeig-Owens, Kelly Fullam, Nadia Jabar, Thomas Aldrich, David Prezant. WTC-Associated Sarcoidosis: A pilot genotypic survey. American Thoracic Society. May 2018.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Shi M, Aldabagh M, Shan J, Ye Q, Hena K, Goldfarb D, Yip J, Zeig-Owens R, Fullam K, Jabar N, Aldrich T, Prezant D, Spivack S. WTC-Associated Sarcoidosis: A pilot genotypic survey. New York State Thoracic Society. April 2018.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Chua A, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Appel D. <a style="color: #954f72;" title="Chylothorax and PAH After Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report" href="https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(16)56859-7/fulltext?cod…; target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chylothorax and PAH After Treatment with Dasatinib: A Case Report</a>. Chest. 2016</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hena K, Yip J, Jaber N, Goldfarb D, Fullam K, <strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Christodoulou V, Moir W, Hena Z, Crosse T, Zeig-Owens R, Webber M, Plotycia S, Gritz D, Spevack D, Soghier I, Prezant D, Aldrich T. Clinical Characteristics of Sarcoidosis in World Trade Center (WTC) Exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Firefighters. Chest. 2016</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Healy L, Wei M, Koenig S, Mayo P, Narasimhan M, Oks M. Safety of Phenobarbital Use for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Chest. 2015</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleven KL</strong>, Myers AK. A rare case hypercalcemia: a PTH independent malignancy with a normal PTHrP, and low/normal 1-25 Vitamin D. Endocrine Society Conference. 2013.</p>
Stephanie Barrett
David W. Appel
<p><strong>Clinical Specialty Areas</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>sleep medicine</li>
<li>general pulmonary medicine</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Current Studies</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Use of a snoring scale and bedside pharyngeal volume measurements to predict obstructive sleep apnea and cpap pressure to treat it prior to the performance of any sleep studies</li>
<li>Sleep and Cough
<ol type="a">
<li>effect of sleep apnea on awake cough response</li>
<li>effect of treatment of sleep apnea on awake cough response</li>
<li>measurement of cough response during sleep among normals/effect of sleep stage</li>
<li>cough response during sleep among people with sleep apnea</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Sleep and Gastroespohageal reflux among people with obstructive sleep apnea</li>
<li>Obstructive sleep apnea and aspiration</li>
<li>Restless Leg Syndrome
<ol type="a">
<li>Restless Leg Syndrome among post-gastric bypass patients</li>
<li>Relation between Restless Leg Syndrome and H. pylori</li>
<li>Relation between Restless Leg Syndrome and use of proton pump inhibitors</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Obstructive sleep apnea and anemia of aging. Is hepcidin a factor?</li>
<li>Obstructive sleep apnea and congestive heart failure among African Americans</li>
</ol>
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