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Dr. Gerald Lawrence Weinhouse is the medical director of Respiratory Care Services and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School .He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences). He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), followed by fellowships in pulmonary disease at Boston University Medical Center (now Boston Medical Center) and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (now the Perelman School of Medicine ). He is board certified in general pulmonary medicine and lung cancer.Dr. Weinhouse’s clinical interests include lung cancer and general pulmonary medicine. A National Institutes of Health-funded investigator, he has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications examining a variety of pulmonary and critical care-related issues. His research specifically studies the role of sleep in the recovery of intensive care unit patients. Dr. Weinhouse has been listed as one of the region’s top doctors by Castle Connolly. Dr. Weinhouse is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchiolitis Obliterans. His top areas of expertise are Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC).

Dr. Nirmal S Sharma is the Medical Director at the Lung Transplantation Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.He received his medical degree from Stanley Medical College in India and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva in New York. He then finished a clinical and post-doctoral research fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with additional training in Lung Transplantation and Mechanical-Circulatory Support at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.After his fellowship, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and lung transplantation faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Thereafter, he was recruited to The University of South Florida/Tampa General Hospital Advanced Organ Institute and served as the Medical Director of the ECMO program prior to joining Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.Dr. Sharma's clinical and research interests are in lung transplantation and extracorporeal life support technologies.  His  basic/translational research program is focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in transplantation rejection and development of novel therapeutics to treat and/or prevent rejection. Dr. Sharma is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchiolitis Obliterans. His top areas of expertise are Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Bronchitis, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Jonelle Raphael is an Intensive Care Medicine specialist and a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Fall River, Massachusetts. Dr. Raphael is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchiolitis Obliterans. Her top areas of expertise are Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Industrial Bronchitis, Emphysema, Lung Metastases, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Raphael is currently accepting new patients.