Dr. Barry Sigal

Dr. Gerard Silvestri is a professor of medicine and a lung cancer pulmonologist at the Medical University of South Carolina with a career dedicated to the evaluation, management and improvement of outcomes of patients with this most common of malignancies. He completed his undergraduate education at Fairleigh Dickinson University, his medical degree at St. Georges University, a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of St. Raphaels/Yale University School of Medicine and fellowship training at Dartmouth. He has an advanced degree in health services research, also from Dartmouth.Dr. Silvestri began the first multidisciplinary lung cancer clinic in South Carolina, and now evaluates between five and seven new lung cancers per week. His clinical research is patient-oriented and directed towards nearly every aspect of lung cancer care. He has experience in evaluating new technologies for the diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and was the part of the first group to publish the utility of endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes to stage lung cancer patients. Dr. Silvestri has been a section editor and author of the American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based guidelines on the diagnosis and management of lung cancer. To date, he has over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications, abstracts, book chapters and invited commentaries in clinical care and research of lung cancer. He has lectured as a master clinician in lung cancer for both the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and has served as chair of the Thoracic Oncology Network of the ACCP. Dr. Silvestri is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lung Nodules, Lung Cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Endoscopy, and Advanced Bronchoscopy. Dr. Silvestri is currently accepting new patients.

Rahul Argula is a Pulmonary Medicine provider practicing medicine in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Argula is highly rated in 19 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Sarcoidosis, and Acute Interstitial Pneumonia.

Nichole Tanner, MD, MSCR, specializes in Lung Cancer, Critical Care Medicine, and Pulmonology and is located in Charleston, SC. Dr. Tanner is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Lung Nodules, Lung Cancer, Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, and Endoscopy. Dr. Tanner is currently accepting new patients.