From Thoracic Surgery to Interventional Pulmonology

Dr. J. Francis Turner, Jr. serves as the Director of Interventional Pulmonology & Pulmonary Rehabilitation for the Wyoming Hospital Medical Group and is past Vice-Chair of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. He serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Supercomputing Institute-UNLV.

Dr. Turner has served as Director of Interventional Pulmonology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the University of Nevada School of Medicine, VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, the Nevada Cancer Institute, and as an editor and board member of the Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.

Prasoon Jain, MD is Clinical Professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care at West Virginia University. Drs Mehta and Jain are co-editors of the successful Interventional Bronchoscopy, and the recently released Diseases of the Central Airways in the Respiratory Medicine series.

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhDis Head of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and Chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Toronto.

Atul C. Mehta, MD is Professor of Medicine and Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation at Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic.