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Previous Presentations:
- The Basics of Alpha-1 Lung and Liver Disease
- Surgical Management of Advanced Alpha-1 Transplant and Beyond
Profile:
Rajat Walia, MB, BS, is Associate Director of the Lung Transplant Program, Medical Director of the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, and Director of the Hyperbaric Lab, all at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. Walia earned his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery degree from the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India. His postgraduate training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also a Fellow in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a Fellow in lung and heart transplantation at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California. He was an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary & critical care medicine at the University of Florida prior to his current position in Phoenix.
Dr. Walia is a member of a number of national and local committees, including the American Thoracic Society Clinical Problems Committee, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Transplant Network Steering Committee, and the ACCP CHEST Foundation Clinical Research Award in Lung Transplantation Review Committee. He has lectured extensively on many topics, such as cystic fibrosis, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, the role of inhaled corticosteroids in COPD, and the selection of lung transplant patients. He has also served as an investigator or co-investigator in a number of research projects involving tissue banking, airway dilatation, and airway lesions.
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