Fellows

Rigo Acevedo

• Residency: University of California - Davis
• Research interests: Pulmonary vascular disease, primarily methamphetamine-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension and medical education, including integrating point-of-care ultrasound education into clinical training
• I’m most excited about: returning to my home community, amongst familiar faces composed of world-class clinicians and educators
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: spending the holidays with family, rock climbing, hiking, basking in the cloudy overcast, and relaxing in the shade of the evergreen trees

Will Brandon

• Residency: UT Southwestern 
• Research interests: health equity across pulmonary medicine
• I’m most excited about: so much - moving to Seattle, being close to nature again, and getting to work with such wonderful fellows and faculty while learning the specialty I'm most passionate about
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: exploring all the nature that Seattle has to offer nearby. I've been missing it quite a bit since I left Colorado

Jason Castaneda

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research interests: I am interested in health services research and am passionate about promoting equitable healthcare delivery. I have a particular interest in improving care delivery for critically ill patients with addiction
• I’m most excited about: getting to know my awesome co-fellows and for the broad clinical exposure I’ll have in rotating across UW’s three training hospitals
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: Paddleboarding on the Puget Sound, biking, attending summer concerts, and cooking for friends

Connor Fling

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research interests: Methamphetamine-associated PAH, alcohol withdrawal syndrome, health disparities and critical care outcomes
• I’m most excited about: getting back into the clinical space after taking a year to focus on medical education as a chief. Specifically, I am really excited to expand my knowledge of critical care medicine in units like the TICU, SICU and NCCS where I can gain exposure to pathologies that I have had limited experience with. I am also really looking forward to continuing to work with many folks in the division who I have worked with over the years and look up to tremendously!
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: more of the same! As a native Seattleite, I am biased, but this place is really well suited for all of my hobbies. Mountain biking, skiing, gardening, golfing, and beach days with the dogs. I also recently welcomed my daughter into this world and very much look forward to getting her involved in all of these activities in the coming years.

Hasan Nadeem

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research interests: health policy and health economics, particularly how payment and delivery system reforms influence provider behavior and health equity. I'm hoping to study the real-world impacts of policies on healthcare quality, cost, and access—especially for historically underserved populations. More broadly, I’m drawn to questions that sit at the intersection of policy design, clinical practice, and social determinants of health
• I’m most excited about: building relationships with mentors whose work I've long admired. Getting to learn pulmonary and critical care from clinicians who push the frontier of the field forward is an incredible opportunity
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: Staying Active! Getting to stay in Seattle for fellowship will allow me to take my landscape-photography game to the next level! Also I'll be trying to get more involved in Seattle's maritime activities, so outside of work you may catch me exploring tidepools or learning squidding/crabbing

Vanessa Woodard

• Residency: Virginia Mason
• Research interests: medical education, particularly curriculum development and simulation, and healthcare disparities in the ICU
• I’m most excited about: the breadth of clinical exposure and working with a group of people who are as excited about PCCM as I am
• What I’m most looking forward to about Seattle: my favorite Seattle pastimes are hiking, especially to alpine lakes, and enjoying the amazing Seattle food scene

Allan Fonseca

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research: Tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening in indigenous populations
• Research mentor: Matthew Triplette, MD

Matthew Haley

• Residency: University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital
• Fellowship: Sleep Medicine, University of Washington
• Research: Medical education with focus on physical exam and bedside teaching
• Research mentors: Rosemary Adamson, MB BS and Tyler Albert, MD

Megan Mayer

• Residency: University of Colorado
• Research: Cost-effective healthcare delivery strategies for lung transplant
• Research mentors: Eric Morrell, MD and Kathy Ramos, MD
• Favorite thing to do in Seattle: I can't wait to backpack and explore the outdoors in this beautiful, lush state and I'm so happy to be back home

Brooke McDonald

• Residency: Hennepin Healthcare
• Research: Post-discharge functional and cognitive outcomes after ICU hospitalization for ARDS
• Research mentors: Pavan Bhatraju, MD and Tessa Steel, MD 
• Hobbies: I am a complete bookworm, an amateur beer brewer and love to hike and travel

Lauren Muñoz Tremblay

• Residency: Cleveland Clinic Foundation South Pointe Hospital
• Research: Biomarkers in sepsis
• Research mentor: Pavan Bhatraju, MD

Daniel To

• Residency: University of Wisconsin Madison
• Research: Cardiac arrest and post-cardiac arrest outcomes
• Research mentors: Nick Johnson, MD and Majid Afshar, MD
• Hobbies: I enjoy comedy, cooking/baking, binge watching TV, and swimming

Gautam Babu

• Residency: Vanderbilt University
• Research interests: Pulmonary hypertension, high altitude physiology, space medicine
• Hobbies: Playing and watching basketball, international travel, exploring national parks, reading science fiction

Mark Chee

• Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital

John Goodman

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research interest: interstitial lung disease
• Hobbies: Weight lifting, mixology, playing guitar, outdoor adventures, and power naps

Emily Harris

• Residency: University of California, San Francisco
• Research interest: Diagnostic reasoning and curriculum development
• Where I grew up: Hillsboro, OR

Lauren Mathews

• Residency: University of Washington

Oliver McElvaney

• Residency: University College Dublin
• Research interests: rare lung disease, inflammatory lung diseases, immunometabolism, and clinical trials
• Favorite thing to do in Seattle: I look forward to taking my wife and son to their first Mariners game!

Alison Uyeda

• Residency: University of Washington
• Research interest: improving communication and provision of goal-concordant care in serious illness
• Where I grew up: Watsonville, CA

Katherine Alberty

• Most recent residency program: University of Washington

Ari Leonhard

• Most recent residency program: University of Chicago
• Research interest: Sleep medicine, chronic respiratory failure
• Where I grew up: Sheboygan, WI

Lauren Onofrey

• Most recent residency program: University of Washington
• Research interest: Critical care in resource-limited settings
• Hobbies: Alpine climbing, backcountry skiing, distance running, meditation