Dr. Melissa L. Means

Graduate of Harvard College, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. Residency in Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women''s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Research Fellowship in Respiratory Biology, Harvard School of Public Health. Private Practice, Pulmonologists PC of Montgomery County, MD since 1988. Special interest in sleep medicine. Clinical Professor of Medicine, George Washington Univ. School of Medicine since 2005. President, DC Thoracic Society, Washington DC 2014-2015. Volunteer Physician, Mercy Health Clinic, Gaithersburg MD. Member, Board of Directors, Mercy Health Clnic, 2013-15. Faculty leader, Hait mobile health clinics, Project Medishares and G.W. International Medicine, 2012- . Videos 2016 Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality and Safety - Steven Kariya, M.D., Suburban Hospital. Dr. Kariya is highly rated in 23 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Asthma in Children, Asthma, Lung Metastases, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Dr. Kariya is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Kariya is currently accepting new patients.

Bernadette Gochuico is a Pulmonary Medicine provider practicing medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Gochuico is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Fibrosis, Interstitial Lung Disease, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Andrew Lerner, M.D., is a clinical instructor of medicine in the pulmonary and critical care medicine department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as the director of interventional pulmonology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He practices out of Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lerner is part of the Sibley Memorial Hospital Lung Nodule and Lung Cancer Screening Clinic, the Multidisciplinary Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery Clinic, and the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Tumor Board Conference. Dr. Lerner has an expertise in minimally invasive procedures for the early diagnosis and treatment of malignant and non-malignant diseases of the airways, lungs and pleura. He is experienced in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, including endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) bronchoscopy, navigational bronchoscopy, rigid bronchoscopy, tumor ablative techniques, airway stent placement, airway dilation, radial EBUS, conventional transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA), bronchial thermoplasty, whole lung lavage and percutaneous lung biopsy; as well as percutaneous tracheostomy, tunneled pleural catheter placement, thoracentesis, tube thoracoscopy, medical thoracoscopy, chemical pleurodesis and upper endoscopy (EGD/PEG) placement. Dr. Lerner earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Lerner then completed a two-year advanced fellowship in interventional pulmonology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, including a chief fellowship year. He has been involved in multiple research projects in the field and completed a Science of Clinical Investigation Certificate Program at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Lerner has been a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society since 2011 and earned The Johns Hopkins Hospital Patient Safety Star Award in 2016. Dr. Lerner has contributed to numerous presentations, lectures, publications, book chapters and abstracts. He is a reviewer for several research journals. Dr. Lerner has various research interests and is currently involved in research projects focusing on EBUS bronchoscopy, lung cancer diagnosis and staging, and other topics. Confidential email to reach Dr. Lerner for any questions: alerner@jhu.edu. Dr. Lerner is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lung Nodules, Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia, Pleural Effusion, Pleurisy, and Endoscopy. Dr. Lerner is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Lerner is currently accepting new patients.

Angelo Taveira-Dasilva is a Pulmonary Medicine provider practicing medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Taveira-Dasilva is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Cerebral Hypoxia, Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome, and Lung Cancer.

Peter G. Hamm, M.D., is a pulmonologist with Johns Hopkins Medicine Pulmonology. Dr. Hamm is also the chairman of the department of medicine and the chairman of the intensive care unit (ICU) committee at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Dr. has an expertise in annual physicals, acute and urgent care, disease management and pulmonary medicine. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Hamm has been named a Top Doctor in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Washington-Baltimore areas by Castle Connolly. He has also been named a Top MD by Consumers’ Checkbook Magazine. Dr. Hamm contributed to a publication on the diagnosis of pulmonary Kaposi’s sarcoma with fiberoptic bronchoscopy and endobronchial biopsy. Dr. Hamm is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma, Large-Cell Lung Carcinoma, and ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Dr. Hamm is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine. Dr. Hamm is currently accepting new patients.

Joel Moss is a Pulmonary Medicine provider practicing medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Moss is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Lung Cancer, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome.