Overview
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 an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. His top areas of expertise are Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Bronchitis, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Lung Transplant, and Endoscopy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 59 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 5 articles in the study of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
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15 Francis Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02115
Clinical Research
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Sydney Montesi is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Montesi has been practicing medicine for over 18 years and is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Her top areas of expertise are Interstitial Lung Disease, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Luan Nghiem is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Burlington, Massachusetts. Dr. Nghiem is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. His top areas of expertise are Lung Metastases, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Gastrostomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Bronchiolitis ObliteransDr. Sharma isDistinguished. Learn about Bronchiolitis Obliterans.
- Lung TransplantDr. Sharma isDistinguished. Learn about Lung Transplant.
- Advanced
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- BronchitisDr. Sharma isAdvanced. Learn about Bronchitis.
- Cystic FibrosisDr. Sharma isAdvanced. Learn about Cystic Fibrosis.
- Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisDr. Sharma isAdvanced. Learn about Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
- Pulmonary FibrosisDr. Sharma isAdvanced. Learn about Pulmonary Fibrosis.
- Experienced
- Acute Interstitial PneumoniaDr. Sharma isExperienced. Learn about Acute Interstitial Pneumonia.
- AsthmaDr. Sharma isExperienced. Learn about Asthma.
- BronchiectasisDr. Sharma isExperienced. Learn about Bronchiectasis.
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- COVID-19Dr. Sharma isExperienced. Learn about COVID-19.
- EndoscopyDr. Sharma isExperienced. Learn about Endoscopy.