Areas of particular interest and expertise are noted below:

Jacqueline Chang, MD (Division Head)

• Interstitial lung disease
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Marlene Barnhouse, MD

• Pain Medicine
• Anesthesia

Ayana Boyd-King, MD (Chairman of Internal Medicine at Scripps La Jolla)

Carrie Chun, MD

• Medical Ethics
• Medical Education

Clinton Colaco, MD

• Neuromuscular Disorder and Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Konrad Davis, MD

• Telemedicine

Achal Dhupa, MD

• Medical Ethics

Darlene Elias, MD (Director of Coumadin Clinic)

• Thromboembolic disease
• Clinical and Basic Science Research

Steven Escobar, MD

• Interventional Pulmonary

Kenneth Grudko, MD

Nancy Hsu, MD

Ben Illum, MD

• Pain Medicine
• Anesthesia
• TEE use in the Intensive Care Unit

Shazia Jamil, MD (Head, Academic Affairs)

• Critical Care Management and Clinical Practice Protocol Development for COVID-19
• Translational Research
• Medical Education

Jason Lee, MD

Derek Loewy, PhD

• Phototherapy in insomnia disorders

Bao Luu, MD (Director of Respiratory Care)

Russell Miller, MD

David Norton, MD

John Steven Poceta, MD

• Restless legs

Krishnan Rangarajan, MD

William Ring, MD (Head, section of Critical Care Medicine)

Kenneth Serio, MD

Matthews Sisitki, MD

Maida Soghikian, MD

Kelly Fan MD

Victoria Christison, PA
Stephen Thurston, PA
Nancy Ludwick, NP
Anne Marie Martland, NP
Ashley Shelton, NP

• Many of our division members (Drs. Ken Serio, Shazia Jamil, Darlene Elias, Carrie Chun, Krish Rangarajan, and Jason Lee) are adjunct faculty at UC San Diego.
• Dr. Shazia Jamil serves on the Education Committee and chairs the sleep core curriculum for the American Thoracic Society. Dr Jamil also co-chairs the Education Committee for the California Thoracic Society
• Dr. Jacqueline Chang serves on the Pulmonary Examination Committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine.
• We assist in training pulmonary/critical care fellows through our GME affiliations with outside institutions, including the US (Balboa) Naval Medical Center San Diego. Our division is also actively involved in graduate medical education of the Scripps Clinic residents in both the ambulatory setting and the ICU.

For more information or to apply, please visit the Graduate Medical Education page.

The clinical and translational research projects of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine encompass a group of studies in pulmonary and interventional pulmonary medicine. 

Minimally invasive pulmonary procedures are increasingly recognized as the current standard of care for diagnosing lung cancer and a variety of nonmalignant lung diseases. The creation of a clinical database as a resource to promote quality assurance, control and guide future directions of types of procedures performed and offered.  

The Scripps Venous Thrombosis Registry cohort has plasma and DNA specimens collected from over 110 patients and 220 controls which are the basis of scientific collaborations with Scripps Research. The purpose is the discovery of novel procoagulant factors and which have the potential to guide new therapies for patient care. 

Pulmonary Embolism Outcomes Research started as an assessment of hospital-based treatment and has extended to ambulatory management of acute low risk pulmonary embolism patients. Clinical assessment for low risk patients has the goal to improve care of patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an increasingly recognized inflammatory condition of the lung which causes permanent fibrosis and respiratory insufficiency. A clinical database is being used as a resource to promote analysis of the clinical characteristics, diagnosis patterns, treatments and outcomes of the ILD patient population at Scripps Clinic.