Education and Training
The Stanford Center for Exellence in Pulmonary Biology
Training the Next Generation of Clinicians and Scientists
The Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology is invested in the education of all trainees. We help educate candidates from medical school, through their residency, continuing to fellowship. We strive to foster curiosity and a drive for knowledge at all levels of medical education. Within the Center, we offer clerkship rotations, residency rotations with our inpatient pulmonary service, and a three year ACGME accredited fellowship training program. We are able to match our trainees with mentors from varied disciplines across Stanford University. Through partnerships with renowned researchers, our trainees are given the opportunity to explore areas outside their scope of practice in order to generate new scientific discoveries.
Clinical Fellowship Training in Pediatric Pulmonary
Medicine
This program is a 3-year program that trains individuals to become board-certified pediatric pulmonologists with emphasis on clinical expertise and research experience. The fellowship is accredited by both the American Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Pediatrics. The first year of fellowship is largely clinical and includes rotations throughout the intensive care units and More opportunities for electives. The second and third years are designed for the fellows to immerse themselves in hypothesis driven research that takes full advantage of the considerable assets of Stanford University. As such fellows can engage in scholarly pursuits ranging from bioengineering to health outcomes to genetic determinants of health disparities, Outcome measures for fellowship include publications in peer-review journals, presentations at national meetings and successful acquisition of extra mural funds. By the time the fellows have completed their fellowship they are ready to sit for the pediatric subspecialty boards and will be able to perform as a competent pediatric pulmonary specialist.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Training
Opportunities
A wealth of research opportunities are available in either clinical or cellular and molecular biology through the departments of pediatric pulmonary, allergy/immunology, or critical care. Fellows may also elect to rotate within other related basic science programs such as respiratory physiology, immunology, pulmonary disease pathogenesis, or airway inflammation through other departments at the medical school. More In partnership with the Adult Pulmonary Division at Stanford, we offer application opportunity to be accepted into our T32 training grant in lung biology. The aim of this program is to build a supportive, invigorating training environment for the next generation of pulmonologists. In addition to funded research time in the lab of one of our mentors, we strive to build a cohesive pulmonary research community at Stanford. This is accomplished via mentorship from T32 leadership, formation of an advisory committee to give guidance and feedback on progress, and monthly research seminars. Trainees select a primary focus from one of the following research areas: Vascular Disease, Stem Cells & Lung Development, Genetics & Genomics, Lung Injury & Repair, Lung Microbiome, Lung Cancer, Outcomes Research, and Imaging.
Elective Pediatric Residency Rotation in Pulmonary Medicine
Respiratory symptoms and problems are the most common cause of children's families seeking physician encounters, and the #1 cause of school absenteeism, hospital admission and impairement of normal play and sports. For all these reasons, it is essential that the pediatric resident become familiar with recognition, diagnosis and care of respiratory diseases. The rotation will emphasize common symptoms More -such as cough, wheeze, stridor and apnea-and diseases including asthma, bronchiolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, laryngomalacia, croup, aspiration, gastroesophageal reflux, obstructive sleep apnea, neuromuscular and neurologic diseases compromising respiration, and upper and lower respiratory infections. Rotations on the Yellow Team include both inpatient and outpatient opportunities.
NIH T32 Fellowship Training Program in Lung Biology
This research training fellowship, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will train four postdoctoral fellows from MD and PhD backgrounds for up to two years. Our mission is to train aspiring postdoctoral fellows into exceptional scientists and physician-scientists who are the forefront of pioneering basic and translational research. Research is conducted under the direction of senior faculty mentors. The aim of this program is to build a supportive, invigorating training environment for the next generation of pulmonary researchers in the following research areas: Vascular Disease, Stem Cells & Lung Development, Genetics & Genomics, Lung Injury & Repair, Lung Microbiome, Lung Cancer, Outcomes Research, and Imaging.