Pulmonary and Critical Care

Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To schedule an appointment, call 713.798.2500.
For more information, visit the Pulmonary and Critical Care website:http://www.bcm.edu/medicine/pulmonary

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor Clinic provides comprehensive services for patients with illnesses that affect the lungs and breathing.

Our pulmonary and critical care experts offer consultation, diagnostic and therapeutic services for a range of respiratory conditions including lung cancer, chronic obstructive disease, asthma, pulmonary vascular disease, sleep disorders, acute and chronic respiratory failure, and lung infections.

Though founded in 1947, the academic evolution of the program began with the development of a training program in pulmonary diseases in 1968 and critical care training in 1985. The clinicians and scientists in the department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine have practiced out of the new, consolidated Baylor Clinic since 2005. This integrated clinic provides one site for virtually all aspects of ambulatory pulmonary patient care, including a full pulmonary function testing lab, complete radiology services, echocardiography, laboratory and nuclear medicine services.

Today at Baylor Clinic, we integrate clinical expertise, research and education to provide the best care and state-of-the-art technology and services for patients with pulmonary and critical care needs.

Our board-certified, nationally respected physicians have contributed significantly to the fields of pulmonary medicine and critical care, practicing at the major hospitals in the Texas Medical Center. Our physicians are actively involved in ongoing clinical and research work to advance and develop the specialties of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine, and they regularly present at national and international scientific meetings related to clinical and basic science investigation in their field. The division has extensive support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The faculty are based at the four primary teaching hospitals: Ben Taub General Hospital, The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and The Methodist Hospital. The faculty also attend at Kindred Hospital-Houston, a long-term, acute-care facility hospital for patients requiring near-ICU level care.


Our Services

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The Pulmonary and Critical Care clinical services encompass a variety of disease states including ambulatory pulmonary and sleep medicine, inpatient pulmonary and critical care medicine. These include treatment of:

Our Physicians

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Kalpalatha K. "Kay" Guntupalli, M.D., is professor of Medicine, section chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, and director of the Pulmonary & Critical Care fellowship program at Baylor College of Medicine. She is also pulmonary service chief at Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston. In her current role as section chief, Dr. Guntupalli has enabled departmental growth through recruitment of several faculty members who have contributed significantly to the field of Pulmonary and Critical Care. Dr. Guntupalli earned her medical degree from Institute of Medical Sciences, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the District of Columbia General Hospital, Washington, D.C., and fellowships in pulmonary medicine at Georgetown University and in critical care at the University of Pittsburgh Health Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Guntupalli is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. Her research interests are acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe asthma, mechanical ventilation, tobacco control and postgraduate education.

Adaani E. Frost, M.D., is professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Her main clinical focus is pulmonary arterial hypertension and pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Frost earned her medical degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, followed by specialty training primarily at the University Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She trained in pulmonary transplant in Toronto and served as medical director of the lung transplant program at Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital in Houston. Dr. Frost is principal investigator in ongoing studies of pulmonary hypertension and end-stage lung disease. She is board certified in pulmonary, critical care and internal medicine.

Nicola Hanania, M.D., is associate professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hanania earned his medical degree from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He completed a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and in critical care from Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hanania is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. He specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine, with research interests in asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He is the director of the Asthma Clinical Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu/asthma).

Marcia Katz, M.D., is assistant professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Katz earned her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, Boston. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital, and her fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Katz is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. She specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine, with research interests in cystic fibrosis and lung volume reduction surgery.

Farrah Kheradmand, M.D., is associate professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Kheradmand earned her medical degree from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. She completed her residency in internal medicine at University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN., and her fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Kheradmand is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. She specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine, with research interests in regulation of airway immune responses and injury and repair.

William Lunn, M.D., is assistant professor of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and assistant professor of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Lunn is the director of the Interventional Pulmonary service at Baylor College of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA and fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. After a brief career in private practice, he completed a fellowship in interventional pulmonary at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Dr. Lunn is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. His specialty is interventional pulmonary and his research interests include airway wound healing, airway stenting, asthma, and pleural disease.

Mary Rose, Psy.D., C.B.S.M., assistant professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine specializes in sleep disorders, psychology and coping with chronic illness. She completed her graduate studies at the Virginia Consortium Program for Clinical Psychology, a unified program offered jointly by The College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and Norfolk State University. Dr. Rose completed a residency in clinical psychology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, and a fellowship at Shriners Burns Hospital for Children, UTMB-Galveston.

Zeenat Safdar, M.D., is assistant professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Safdar earned her medical degree from Sind Medical College, University of Karachi in Pakistan. She completed her residency in internal medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, followed by fellowship training in pulmonary medicine at St. Luke's Hospital- Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. Her specialties include pulmonary hypertension, both idiopathic and that associated with but not limited to collagen vascular disease, congenital heart disease, HIV and porto-pulmonary and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Safdar is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine.

Shyam Subramanian, M.D., DABSM, is assistant professor of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Baylor College of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay University, Mumbai, India. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, and he completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Dr. Subramanian is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. His specialties are in sleep disorders, critical care and pulmonary disease, and his research interests are in respiratory control and sleep disorders.

Hours of Operation

Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Appointments

To schedule an appointment, call 713.798.2500.

For More Information

Visit the Pulmonary and Critical Care website: http://www.bcm.edu/medicine/pulmonary

Location

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Pulmonary and Critical Care
Baylor Clinic
6620 Main St.
12th Floor, Suite 1225
Houston, Texas 77030

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