To become a funded and independent investigator

The Fellow is expected to perform research for a minimum of six months during each of the second and third years of training (provided they have satisfactorily completed their clinical requirements). They meet with faculty members towards the end of their first year to discuss ongoing projects or any ideas of their own they like to pursue and choose a research mentor. All second and third year Fellows are expected to present an abstract at the ATS international conference which is held in the month of May.

Areas of Current Research include:

• Mechanisms of weaning failure
• Patient-ventilator interactions
• Respiratory muscle pathophysiology
• Sleep in the ICU
• Control of breathing
• Outcome in long-term ventilated patients
• Lung transplantation
• COPD rehabilitation
• Alterations in lung cellular function after acute injury

• Divison Publications
• Grants
• Education - LUMEN