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Erik Folch is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Folch is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pleural Effusion. His top areas of expertise are Pleural Effusion, Tracheobronchomalacia, Lung Nodules, Advanced Bronchoscopy, and Endoscopy.

Dr. Majid Shafiq is an interventional pulmonologist who performs minimally invasive diagnostic procedures such as flexible bronchoscopy with endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), robotic bronchoscopy, electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy and transthoracic biopsy of lung nodules, medical thoracoscopy (also known as pleuroscopy), and pleural biopsy. He also performs minimally invasive therapeutic procedures such as indwelling pleural catheter placement for recurrent pleural effusion, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using endobronchial valves for severe COPD (emphysema), bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma, whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, rigid bronchoscopy and tumor debulking for benign and cancerous airway tumors, and airway stenting for tracheomalacia, tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), airway stenosis, and airway compression.Dr. Shafiq created a Wikipedia page on interventional pulmonology in 2017 in order to facilitate public education about this relatively novel branch of medicine. He has developed a number of clinical and educational innovations and authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Shafiq is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pleural Effusion. His top areas of expertise are Pleural Effusion, Lung Nodules, Emphysema, Tracheobronchomalacia, and Endoscopy.

Dr. Hisashi Tsukada is a thoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  He is also an assistant professor in surgery at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree and a PhD in medicine from St. Marianna University School of Medicine (Kawasaki, Japan). He then completed a residency in surgery at Mitsui Memorial Hospital (Tokyo). His fellowships include thoracic surgery at St. Marianna University Hospital, thoracic surgery research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and interventional pulmonology at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.   Dr. Tsukada specializes in Interventional Pulmonology and his clinical interests concentrate on aligning his research investigations to disease processes he has observed in patients as a practicing thoracic surgeon for more than ten years in Japan. Dr. Tsukada started his service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in October 2014. He has expanded the Interventional Pulmonology procedures up to 1,000 cases per year in 2023. Dr. Tsukada is research focuses on developing an artificial trachea for in vivo implantation and airway tissue regeneration. He has authored 30 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Tsukada is fluent in Japanese. Dr. Tsukada is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pleural Effusion. His top areas of expertise are Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia, Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Advanced Bronchoscopy, and Endoscopy.