Christian Bime, MD, MSc

Dr. Christian Bime, an associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine and vice chair for Access, Community & Belonging in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, is a pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist and an intensive care medicine internist as medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Banner – University Medical Center – Tucson. He earned his medical degree from the Universite de Yaounde, Cameroon, and a master’s degree in epidemiology from Michigan State University in East Lansing, completing his internal medicine residency training at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he also was a chief resident. He completed his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He joined the U of A faculty in 2013, and was among the inaugural winners of the U of A Health Sciences Career Development Awards in 2014. That same year, he also was among the inaugural AZ PRIDE scholars (now AAPLS), a year-long mentorship program designed to support research careers for those underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. His top areas of expertise are in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, and embolectomy. His clinical research consists of co-authoring 71 peer reviewed articles and participating in clinical trials. A native of Cameroon, he also serves on the African interest group and membership committee of the American Thoracic Society.