Dr. Kari E. Roberts

Dr. Edwin Kepner Silverman is chief of the Channing Division of Network Medicine and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary disease at BWH. He is board certified in critical care medicine and pulmonary medicine.Dr. Silverman’s clinical interests include alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He has served as a principal investigator of multiple COPD genetics studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, including the NETT Genetics Ancillary Study, the Transcontinental COPD Genetics Study, the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Genetic Modifiers Study and the COPDGene Study. His research uses a variety of genetic analysis approaches to investigate the genetic influences of complex lung diseases, including integrative genomics, linkage analysis, familial aggregation analysis, rare variant analysis and epigenetic studies. He has authored over 320 peer-reviewed publications and is the recipient of the BWH Kenneth L. Baughman Faculty Mentoring Award. Dr. Silverman is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Emphysema, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection. Dr. Silverman is currently accepting new patients.

Erik Folch is an Intensive Care Medicine provider practicing medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Folch is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lung Nodules, ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Emphysema, Advanced Bronchoscopy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Folch is currently accepting new patients.

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 highly rated in 19 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lung Nodules, Lung Cancer, Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia, Advanced Bronchoscopy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Tsukada is board certified in Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology. Dr. Tsukada is currently accepting new patients.