Program Leadership

Program director

Deepa Gotur, MD, FCCP

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Academic Institute
Associate Clinical Member, Research Institute
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College

Associate Program Director

Christopher Cortes, MD
Section Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Clinical Service Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit 
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital

Associate Program Director

Mena Botros, MD
Transplant Medicine

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital

 


Senior Program Coordinator 

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Lauryn N. Morrison, MHA

Core and General Faculty

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Rodney Folz, MD, PhD, ATSF
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Jerald B. Katz Academy and Katz Investigator Endowment
Houston Methodist Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College

Sandeep Sahay Headhsot
Sandeep Sahay, MD, MSc, ATSF
Co-Director, Pulmonary Hypertension and CTEPH Programs
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital

Tarek Dammad

Tarek Dammad, MD

Clinical Director of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division

Interventional Pulmonology

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Department of Medicine
Houston Methodist Hospital

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Zeenat Safdar, MD, MS
Pulmonary Hypertension
Interim Director, Houston Lung Center
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and 
Pulmonary Fibrosis Care Network
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital

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Ahmad Goodarzi, MD
Transplant Medicine
Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Transplant Medicine
Department of Medicine
Houston Methodist Lung Transplant Center

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Raul Sanchez Leon, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
MICU Intensivist
Department of Medicine
Houston Methodist Hospital

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Simon Yau, MD
Transplant Medicine
Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Transplant Medicine
Department of Medicine
Houston Methodist Lung Transplant Center

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J. Fernando Santacruz, MD, FCCP, DAABIP
Interventional Pulmonary
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Private Practice