Fellowship Overview
The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine offers fellowship training in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. The program is based at ECU Health Medical Center and operated together with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The fellowship program meets the requirements for residency education in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine established by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and is fully accredited. Fellows who complete the program are qualified to sit for the Pulmonary Disease and/or Critical Care Medicine certification examinations offered by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
The goal of this program is to train well rounded physicians who have acquired the skills necessary to thrive in any setting in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Graduates will be equally able to function as academic physicians and private practitioners.
Jennifer Stahl, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Fellowship Program
Our program offers multiple training tracks. We have a 3 year combined program in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, a 3 year combined program in Nephrology and Critical Care Medicine, a 3 year combined program in Infectious Disease and Critical Care Medicine, and a 6 year combined program in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. We also have a 2 year program in Critical Care Medicine alone (must have completed an accredited residency program: Example Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, etc).
The educational program is divided into 13 four week long blocks per year. Training in the program has three components: the required core clinical rotations, didactic education consisting of conferences, workshops, and simulation exercises, and scholarly activity and research. The core of the training is based on close supervision and involvement by the faculty and an extensive program of didactics.
In order to learn the necessary cognitive skills, fellows will participate in a variety of Division and extramural conferences as well as engage in substantial self-study of the literature and text books. To complete their educational program, fellows will engage in a variety of both clinical and basic science research endeavors with a goal of presentation at national meetings and publication in peer-reviewed journals. The research training includes a number of formal research rotations but the research program itself extends across the entire time in the program.
The program began as a two year pulmonary disease fellowship in 1999 and expanded to a three year pulmonary disease and critical care medicine fellowship in 2005, and in 2012 the program expanded to four fellows selected to begin training for the combined program and 2 fellows for the Critical Care track. In 2022 we expanded to include 6 fellows in the critical care track that encompass combined tracks in Nephro/CCM, ID/CCM, EMIMCCM, and straight CCM. Our total fellow complement is 18.
In addition to the clinical services the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine has active ongoing translational research program centered around the Lung Cell Biology Program which has several NIH grants, as well as corporate and device trials. We provide extensive laboratory facilities with access to cutting-edge techniques. Targeted research areas include: Sarcoidosis and lung inflammation, Alveolar Proteinosis and related cytokine biology, and lung lipid homeostasis.
Program Faculty and Staff
Amy Gilliland, MDAssociate Program Director
Veeranna Maddipati, MDAssociate Program Director
Bryan K. Dunn, MDAssociate Program Director
