Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship

Welcome

Henry Ford St. John Hospital offers a 3 year Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship program.

The fellowship features a variety of patient education opportunities including a 20 bed MICU as well as a 20 bed SICU and a 10 bed CVICU.

The MICU is a closed unit where the fellow acts as a critical part of a large therapeutic team composed of interns, residents, medical students. Given our geographical location at the junction of the suburbs and the inner city as well as our role as a tertiary referral center, our fellows treat a wide range of medical conditions ranging from community pneumonia to extremely rare diseases.

In the non-medical ICU, our fellows are intimately involved in the management of patients undergoing advanced cardiovascular interventions, complex vascular and oncologic surgeries as well as a wide variety of general surgery cases.

St John Hospital is a level 1 trauma center and has very active ECMO and PERT programs.

Our stroke program provides extensive exposure to complex Neurosurgical interventions and management of this patient in an ICU setting.

St John Hospital also has a dedicated pulmonary floor which provides an extensive exposure to patient admitted with primary pulmonary diseases such as COPD, asthma, ILD and respiratory failure.

There is also pulmonary consult service covering the other patient floors which allow an extensive exposure to pulmonary conditions relevant to the management of oncologic, surgical, trauma, cardiac, renal (including post-transplant patients) and neurologic patients amongst others.

Training

Inpatient Rotations

Clinical Rotations are spent at St. John Hospital main campus, apart from Pulmonary Hypertension, Advanced Lung Disease and Burn rotations, which are provided off campus.

During inpatient rotations, trainees will be able to work and interact with internal Medicine residents and residents from other specialties including surgery, emergency medicine and family medicine and will be fully supervised by our faculty.

Ambulatory Care

Continuity clinic experience will be maintained throughout fellowship with a ½ day weekly fellow clinic under direct supervision of our pulmonary faculty.

In addition to this, out-patient subspecialty clinic experience will be available during certain rotations such as sleep, Pulmonary Hypertension and Cystic Fibrosis/ Advanced Lung disease.

Teaching Conferences

• Journal club once a month
• Fellow’s teaching conferences every Thursday and Friday for the first three months and then every Friday
• Radiology conferences every Thursday after the first three months

Simulation Laboratory

• Simulation bronchoscope with EBUS module to be used by all fellows

Research

Fellows will be actively involved in clinical research activities with five total months dedicated to it during their three years of training.

A mentor from our faculty team will be assigned to each fellow to work on the development of a research project. During the first year, a research project will be developed by the fellow under direct supervision of his mentor.

During the second- and third-year data collection, analysis and ultimately publication of results will be completed.

A yearly research presentation per fellow will allow each trainee to discuss his/her protocol and preliminary results and obtain feedback from the faculty. It is expected for fellows to present an abstract with their results at a national meeting, either The American Thoracic Society or American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) Meeting.

Program Leadership

 

John Lee, M.D.

Program Director
PCC Fellowship Program

 

Rene Franco, M.D.

Associate Program Director
PCC Fellowship Program

2025-2026 Fellows

 

Lisa DeRose, M.D.

Fellow Year 3

 

John Anthony Sorge, M.D.

Fellow Year 3

 

Harish Gidda, M.D.

Fellow Year 2

 

M Sami Tashwali, D.O.

Fellow Year 2

 

Samah Abdallah, M.D.

Fellow Year 1

 

Rahaul Dhaliwal, M.D.

Fellow Year 1

 

Spencer Wade, D.O..

Fellow Year 1

For More Information

Please contact Julie Webber at (313 343-3867 or via email

We accept applications only through ERAS. Find more information on how to apply using ERAS.

2025-2026 Compensation and Benefits