Momen M. Wahidi, MD

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• Lung Cancer
• Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine

Director, Interventional Pulmonology

Department / Division:
Medicine / Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care

Address:
DUMC 3683
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 684-5621

Office Telephone:
(919) 668-0340

Fax Telephone:
(919) 681-4969

• M.D., University of Damascus, Syria, 1992

• Internal Medicine, Indiana University Medical Center, 1995-1999

• Pulmonary and Critical Care, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1999-2002
• Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, 2002-2003

Clinical Interests:
Interventional pulmonology, thoracic oncology, pleural diseases, advanced diagnostic and therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy, rigid bronchoscopy, airway stent placement, cryotherapy, argon plasma coagulation, photodynamic therapy, autofluorescense bronchoscopy, medical pleuroscopy

Research Interests:
Emphysema, Lung Cancer, Bronchoscopy, Pleural Diseases

Representative Publications:
Wahidi MM, Garland R, Feller-Kopman D, Herth F, Becker HD, Ernst A. Effect of clopidogrel with and without aspirin on bleeding following transbronchial lung biopsy. Chest. 2005 Mar;127(3):961-4. (2005) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Ernst A. The role of bronchoscopy in the management of lung transplant recipients. Respir Care Clin N Am. 2004 Dec;10(4):549-62. (2004) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Ernst A. Role of the interventional pulmonologist in the intensive care unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2005 May-Jun;20(3):141-6. (2005) Abstract

Gentile MA, Wahidi MM. Tracheostomy in mechanically ventilated patients: unanswered questions. Crit Care Med. 2005 Feb;33(2):444-5. (2005) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Rocha AT, Hollingsworth JW, Govert JA, Feller-Kopman D, Ernst A. Contraindications and safety of transbronchial lung biopsy via flexible bronchoscopy. A survey of pulmonologists and review of the literature. Respiration. 2005 May-Jun;72(3):285-95. (2005) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Ernst A. The Montgomery T-tube tracheal stent. Clin Chest Med. 2003 Sep;24(3):437-43. (2003) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Herth FJ, Ernst A. State of the art: interventional pulmonology. Chest. 2007 Jan;131(1):261-74. (2007) Abstract

Wahidi MM, Govert JA, Goudar RK, Gould MK, McCrory DC, . Evidence for the treatment of patients with pulmonary nodules: when is it lung cancer?: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition). Chest. 2007 Sep;132(3 Suppl):94S-107S. (2007) Abstract

Wahidi MM. Ultrasound: the pulmonologist's new best friend. Chest. 2008 Apr;133(4):836-7. (2008) Abstract

Reddy AJ, Govert JA, Sporn TA, Wahidi MM. Broncholith removal using cryotherapy during flexible bronchoscopy: a case report. Chest. 2007 Nov;132(5):1661-3. (2007) Abstract