Director, Interventional Pulmonology

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

Address:
DUMC 3683
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-6688

Office Telephone:
919-668-0340

Fax Telephone:
919-684-3874

• MD, University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine (Syria), 1992

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

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 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, electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound

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

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

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

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