Medicine Grand Rounds-SPARK Lecture

"The Role of Race, Ethnicity and Alternatives in Understanding and Improving Lung Function"
Nirav Bhakta, MD, PhD

Dr. Nirav Bhakta is an associate professor, director of education and associate director in the Adult Pulmonary Function Laboratory at the UCSF School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After completing medical school and earning a PhD at Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Bhakta joined the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency program. With an undergraduate background in engineering and graduate work on T cell development, he was drawn to pulmonary and critical care medicine early given the combination of physiology and immunology present in this specialty. He also found the challenges in working with patients and families on critical illness rewarding. After completing fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship both at UCSF, Dr. Bhakta joined the faculty in 2013. He and Christian Bime, MD, associate professor in the University of Arizona Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, cochaired a workshop in 2021 that culminated in a major statement by the American Thoracic Society regarding pulmonary function tests that was recently published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Bhakta spoke May 22 on an ATS panel at its recent conference on the topic of health disparities in pulmonary medicine. You can view that discussion here.

Flyer for this event:  spark_lecture_dom_2023-06-21_1dei_credit.pdf

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

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Accreditation Statement: The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement: All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians