Ambulatory Care Curriculum Workgroup

The APCCMPD Ambulatory Care Curriculum Workgroup (ACWG) serve as Section Editors for each teaching script within the 2-Year Ambulatory Care Curriculum. As Section Editors, the Workgroup maintains, updates, and disseminates the 40-topic ambulatory management curriculum to ensure current best practices and medical evidence are reflected. The APCCMPD ACWG reviews each teaching script annually.

2025-2026 AMBULATORY CARE CURRICULUM WORKGROUP


Chair, Executive Committee
Amik Sodhi, MBBS, MPH
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Vice-Chair, Executive Committee
Susan K. Mathai, MD

PCCM Training Program Director
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
Affiliate Clinical Professor
Texas A&M University College of Medicine


Immediate Past Chair
Stacey Kassutto, MD, MA
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Tony Abdo, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Asha Anandaiah, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard

Kavitha Bagavathy, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Brent A. Bagley, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Anna K. Brady, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Associate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina

Stacey-Ann Brown, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina

Hugo Carmona, MD
Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Washington

Tomas Cordova, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

Janaki Deepak, MBBS
PCCM Associate Program Director
Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Executive Committee
Javier Diaz-Mendoza, MD

PCCM Training Program Director
Henry Ford Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Wayne State University
Brian Garnet, MD

PCCM Associate Program Director
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Laura J. Hinkle, MD, MEd

PCCM Training Program Director
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Sugeet Jagpal, MD

PCCM Associate Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Mira John, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Ramesh Kesavan, MD

Pulmonary Training Program Director
HCA Houston Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Houston-Kingwood

Boram Kim, DO

PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Morningside-West

Abiodun T. Kukoyi, MD

PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

Michael L'Heureux, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor

Virginia Commonwealth University
May M. Lee, MD

PCCM Training Program Director
University of Southern California
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Andrew Lehr, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
NYU Langone Health
Assistant Professor
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Brett Lindgren, DO
PCCM Associate Program Director
University of Southern California
Assistant Professor
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Ashley Losier, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Yale-New Haven Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Medicine
Joseph K. Mak, DO
Faculty
University of California, San Francisco
Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS
PCCM Training Program Director
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Matthew C. Miles, MD, MEd
PCCM Training Program Director
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine

Wake Forest University School of Medicine
W. Dwight Miller, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
University of South Florida Morsani
Jane Moon, DO
PCCM Associate Program Director
Stony Brook University Hospital
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Stella Ogake, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University
 

Austin Herbst, MD
Fellow
The Ohio State University

Hetal J. Patel, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
Associate Professor

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Camille Petri, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard

Meredith E. Pugh, MD, MSCI
PCCM Training Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vijaya Ramalingam, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
Northeast Georgia Medical Center

Executive Committee
Michael M. Rey, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Scialla, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
University of Virginia Medical Center
Associate Professor

University of Virginia School of Medicine
Sarah Seyffert, MD
Faculty
Indiana University School of Medicine
Executive Committee
Bronwyn L. Small, MD

Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Alyssa Soskis, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Duke University Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Duke University School of Medicine

Trevor Steinbach, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine

Abhaya Trivedi, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Associate Professor
Rush University Medical Center

Meredith L. Turetz, MD
PCCM Training Program Director
Weill Cornell Medicine
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

Sarah R. Williams, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland

Tanzira Zaman, MD
PCCM Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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What is the Ambulatory Care Curriculum?

The 2-Year Pulmonary Ambulatory Curriculum was developed to enhance and standardize fellowship training in the outpatient pulmonology setting. The University of Pennsylvania developed(1) and piloted a novel longitudinal outpatient pulmonary fellowship curriculum. Implementation of this curriculum was then studied and validated between July 2017–June 2019 at Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Programs of varying sizes and geographic locations. The ambulatory curriculum was well-received by fellows, faculty and Program Directors and positively impacted perceptions of ambulatory education and self-perceived preparedness for independent practice(2). The curriculum provides a standardized, feasible, and exportable way to address an unmet need in PCCM fellowship education.

The curriculum consists of a series of literature-based teaching scripts on 40 topics in the ambulatory pulmonology setting. These teaching scripts are intended to serve as the foundation for twice-monthly small group teaching sessions.

  1. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201601-009PS
  2. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_MeetingAbstracts.A1429

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