The mission of our yearlong Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship, offered through NYU Langone’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, is to train physicians in the most advanced techniques and approaches to interventional pulmonology, while encouraging fellows to pursue careers in academic medicine.

Lead by Jamie L. Bessich, MD, section chief of interventional pulmonology, Vivek Murthy, MD, interventional pulmonology fellowship program director and Andrew DeMaio, MD, associate director of the fellowship, our faculty aim to push the frontier of this specialty forward, bringing novel minimally procedural interventions and approaches to diagnosis and management of pulmonary diseases. Our ACGME-accredited Interventional Pulmonology training program provides comprehensive training in the full breadth of procedures encountered in interventional pulmonary practice along with a robust didactic curriculum and numerous opportunities to engage in clinical and translational research.

Clinical Training for Fellows

During clinical training, fellows become proficient in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, in addition to the latest airway management techniques and diagnostic and therapeutic pleural procedures (including medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy). Fellows in our program receive extensive training in robotic bronchoscopy with integration of cone beam CT visualization and learn to successfully sample and intervene on small pulmonary nodules. Our program has a significant and consistent volume of therapeutic bronchoscopy, including rigid bronchoscopy, airway tumor ablation/excision and airway stent insertion. Fellows gain extensive experience with percutaneous tracheostomy insertion and management in our intensive care units.

During this fellowship, fellows collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicians including intensivists, thoracic surgeons, otolaryngologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, and pathologists to diagnose patients and develop treatment plans. Fellows work in several patient care settings, including NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital, Perlmutter Cancer Center, as well as NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue all within a radius of a few blocks in Midtown East, New York.

Didactic Training for Fellows

Didactic training includes a weekly Interventional Pulmonary conference which rotates between a Journal Club, Difficult Case/Airway Conference, Morbidity and Mortality conference as well as a didactic lecture series aimed at preparation for both Board examination as well as real-world clinical practice. Fellows also attend The NYU multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology cancer tumor board and are able to attend a weekly Pulmonary division case conference and Pulmonary Grand Rounds.

Research Opportunities for Fellows

Fellows have opportunities and dedicated time built into their schedule to pursue their academic interests including innovative translational and clinical research under the guidance of leading experts in the field. There are several structured research opportunities available within the Pulmonary Division as well as opportunities for collaboration outside the Division for fellows who are interested.

Fellows are expected and encouraged to present results of scholarly work through publication and through presentation at national meetings; accommodation to attend a national meeting is made available to fellows.

How to Apply

Our program accepts one fellow per year. Applicants are expected to complete training in pulmonary and critical care medicine as a pre-requisite to starting this fellowship program.

Apply for our interventional pulmonology fellowship program through the Association of Interventional Pulmonology Program Directors (AIPPD) using its Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship Application System. Our program participates in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match system.

Fellowship Faculty

Our faculty members are leaders in the field of interventional pulmonology.

Jamie L. Bessich, MD
Section Chief, Interventional Pulmonology

Vivek Murthy, MD
Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship

Andrew DeMaio, MD
Associate Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship

Isaac Laniado, MD
Interventional Pulmonologist

Samaan Rafeq, MD, MBA
Interventional Pulmonologist

Luis Angel, MD
Medical Director, Lung Transplantation

Daniel H. Sterman, MD
Director, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

Contact Us

For questions about applying to our Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship, please contact Alicia Brewster, MPA, fellowship coordinator, at Alicia.Brewster@NYULangone.org or 212-263-2315.