M. Patricia Rivera, MD, FCCP, is a Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, and Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at UNC. She currently serves as Co-chair of the CHEST Thoracic Oncology NetWork and has been an editor and writer for the CHEST Lung Cancer Guidelines.
Nirmal S. Sharma, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinical expertise is in the field of lung transplantation and advanced lung diseases including extracorporeal life support technologies for acute respiratory failure. His research is focused on the interaction of lung microbiome and innate immunity and its role in causing chronic rejection in lung transplantation. His other clinical interests include management of acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary embolism, and lung donor management.
