HCMC - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

If you are interested in an appointment with a Pulmonary Care physician, call (612) 873-9706.

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Hennepin County Medical Center

HCMC Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine physicians

General Pulmonary Critical Care

Office — (612) 873-2625

Pulmonary Function Laboratory

Pulmonary and Critical Care Publications

Pulmonary Clinic - Call (612) 873-6369

Scope of Services:

The Pulmonary and Critical Care Division provides compassionate and expert care for patients with life-threatening medical illnesses in medical intensive care and chronic pulmonary diseases on inpatient and outpatient services.

Patient Information on Specific Conditions

• Critical Care Medicine

Severe Lung Injury

Breathing failure

Life-threatening medical conditions

• Diagnostic Procedures

Bronchoscopy

Pleural

• Infections

Pneumonia

Fungal infections

Tuberculosis

• Sleep and Breathing

Sleep apnea

Chronic breathing failure

• Lung Diseases

Asthma

Cough

Emphysema

Exercise breathing problems

Fibrosis and Interstitial disease

Lung Cancer

Sarcoidosis

Shortness of Breath

Immune lung diseases

• Vascular Disease

Pulmonary blood clots

Pulmonary hypertension

Medical Staff

Conrad Iber, MD, Director

Scott Davies, MD	Robert Shapiro, MD
James Leatherman, MD	Mark Sprenkle, MD
William Marinelli, MD

Scott Davies, MD

• Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Chief of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

Contact: scott.davies@co.hennepin.mn.us

Clinical Interests: Fungal Disease, Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Infections, Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Interstitial Lung disease

Critical Care Medicine Including Acute and Chronic Ventilatory Failure

Research Interests:

Deep Fungal Infections

Conrad Iber, MD

• Associate Professor of Medicine,

University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine

Contact: iberx001@umn.edu

Clinical Interests: Sleep Medicine, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Sleep and Neuromuscular Disease, Pulmonary Medicine including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Interstitial Lung Disease, Critical Care Medicine including Acute and Chronic Ventilatory Failure

Research Interests:

Sleep and Breathing; Sleep Apnea

Mechanical Ventilation and Ventilatory Failure

James Leatherman, MD

• Associate Professor of Medicine,

University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Director of Medical Intensive Care, and Director of Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

Contact: jim.leatherman@co.hennepin.mn.us

Clinical Interests: Critical Care Medicine and Mechanical Ventilation. Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Interstitial Lung disease

Research Interests: Mechanical Ventilation in Asthma, Neuromuscular Complications in Intensive Care, Hemodynamic Monitoring in Intensive Care

William Marinelli, MD

• Associate Professor of Medicine,

University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Director of Respiratory Care, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

Contact: marin005@umn.edu

Clinical Interests: Critical Care Medicine, Acute Lung Injury. Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Interstitial Lung disease, and Chronic Infections

Research Interests: Acute Lung Injury, Outcome Following Castastrophic Illness, Obstetrical Critical Care

Robert Shapiro, MD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Director of Pulmonary Laboratory, and co- Director of Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

Contact: robert.s.shapiro@co.hennepin.mn.us

Clinical Interests: Critical Care Medicine, Mechanical Ventilation, Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Interstitial Lung Disease.

Research Interests: Mechanical Ventilation, Hemodynamic Monitoring in Intensive Care

Mark Sprenkle, MD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine,

University of Minnesota

• Pulmonary and Critical Care Staff Physician, Hennepin County Medical Center

• Director of Pulmonary Research, Hennepin County Medical Center

Board Certification: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care

Contact: spren005@umn.edu

Clinical Interests: Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Failure, Pulmonary Medicine Including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Pulmonary Infections, and Interstitial Lung Disease.

Research Interests:

Quality of Life and Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Outcomes Research in Critical Care Medicine

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division

Current Publications 1999-2004

Iber C. Redline S. Kaplan Gilpin AM. Quan SF. Zhang L. Gottlieb DJ. Rapoport D. Resnick HE. Sanders M. Smith P. Polysomnography performed in the unattended home versus the attended laboratory setting--Sleep Heart Health Study methodology. [Clinical Trial. Journal Article. Multicenter Study. Randomized Controlled Trial] Sleep. 27(3):536-40, 2004 May 1.

Sprenkle MD. Niewoehner DE. Nelson DB. Nichol KL. The Veterans Short Form 36 questionnaire is predictive of mortality and health-care utilization in a population of veterans with a self-reported diagnosis of asthma or COPD. [Journal Article] Chest. 126(1):81-9, 2004 Jul.

Leatherman JW. McArthur C. Shapiro RS. Effect of prolongation of expiratory time on dynamic hyperinflation in mechanically ventilated patients with severe asthma. [JournalArticle] Critical Care Medicine. 32(7):1542-5, 2004 Jul.

Iber C. Development of a new manual for characterizing sleep. [Editorial] Sleep. 27(2):190-2, 2004 Mar 15.

Weinert CR. Gross CR. Marinelli WA. Impact of randomized trial results on acute lung injury ventilator therapy in teaching hospitals.[see comment]. [Journal Article. Multicenter Study] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 167(10):1304-9, 2003 May 15.

Leatherman JW. Shapiro RS. Overestimation of pulmonary artery occlusion pressure in pulmonary hypertension due to partial occlusion. [Journal Article] Critical Care Medicine. 31(1):93-7, 2003 Jan.

Quan SF. Griswold ME. Iber C. Nieto FJ. Rapoport DM. Redline S. Sanders M. Young T. Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) Research Group. Short-term variability of respiration and sleep during unattended nonlaboratory Polysomnography Sleep Heart Health Study. [Clinical Trial. Journal Article. Multicenter Study] Sleep. 25(8):843-9, 2002 Dec15.

Marinelli WA. Leatherman JW. Neuromuscular disorders in the intensive care unit. [Review] [55 refs] [Journal Article. Review. Review, Tutorial] Critical Care Clinics. 18(4):915-29, x, 2002 Oct.

Schlesinger PA. Leatherman JW. Rheumatology. [Review] [30 refs] [Journal Article. Review. Review, Tutorial] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 166(9):1161-5, 2002 Nov 1.

Boland LL. Shahar E. Iber C. Knopman DS. Kuo TF. Nieto FJ. Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) Investigators. Measures of cognitive function in persons with varying degrees of sleep-disordered breathing: the Sleep Heart Health Study. [Journal Article] Journal of Sleep Research. 11(3):265-72, 2002 Sep.

Kapur V. Strohl KP. Redline S. Iber C. O'Connor G. Nieto J. Underdiagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome in U.S. communities. [Journal Article] Sleep & Breathing. 6(2):49-54, 2002 Jun.

Meoli AL Casey KR. Clark RW. Coleman JA Jr. Fayle RW. Troell RJ. Iber C. Clinical Practice Review Committee. Hypopnea in sleep-disordered breathing in adults. [Journal Article] Sleep. 24(4):469-70, 2001 Jun 15.

Nelson BJ. Weinert CR. Bury CL. Marinelli WA. Gross CR. Intensive care unit drug use and subsequent quality of life in acute lung injury patients. [Journal Article] Critical Care Medicine. 28(11):3626-30, 2000 Nov.

Kapur VK. Rapoport DM. Sanders MH. Enright P. Hill J. Iber C. Romaniuk J. Rates of sensor loss in unattended home polysomnography: the influence of age, gender, obesity, and sleep-disordered breathing. [Evaluation Studies. Journal Article] Sleep. 23(5):682-8, 2000 Aug 1.

Broccard A. Shapiro RS. Schmitz LL. Adams AB. Nahum A. Marini JJ. Prone positioning attenuates and redistributes ventilator-induced lung injury in dogs.[see comment]. [Journal Article] Critical Care Medicine. 28(2):295-303, 2000 Feb.

Kloot TE. Blanch L. Melynne Youngblood A. Weinert C. Adams AB. Marini JJ. Shapiro RS. Nahum A. Recruitment maneuvers in three experimental models of acute lung injury. Effect on lung volume and gas exchange. [Journal Article] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 161(5):1485-94, 2000 May.

Redline S. Kapur VK. Sanders MH. Quan SF. Gottlieb DJ. Rapoport DM. Bonekat WH. Smith PL. Kiley JP. Iber C. Effects of varying approaches for identifying respiratory disturbances on sleep apnea assessment. [Journal Article. Multicenter Study] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 161(2 Pt 1):369-74, 2000 Feb.

Marinelli WA. Weinert CR. Gross CR. Knoedler JP Jr. Bury CL. Kangas JR. Leatherman JW. Right heart catheterization in acute lung injury: an observational study.[see comment]. [Journal Article] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 160(1):69-76, 1999 Jul.

Gottlieb DJ. Whitney CW. Bonekat WH. Iber C. James GD. Lebowitz M. Nieto FJ. Rosenberg CE. Relation of sleepiness to respiratory disturbance index: the Sleep Heart Health Study. [Journal Article] American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine. 159(2):502-7, 1999 Feb.