Course Director
Dr. McSparron is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and Associate Director of the Critical Care Medicine Unit. Dr. McSparron previously served as Vice-Chair of the ATS Education Committee, Chair of the Critical Care Core Curriculum, and Co-Chair of the Critical Care for FTS.
Sleep Chair
Dr. Jamil is the Head of Academic Affairs in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Scripps Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine where she is Co-Director of Pulmonary Skills session for second year medical students. She received her medical degree from Aga Khan Medical School in Pakistan, Internal Medicine residency at University of Southern California (USC), Pulmonary, Critical Care fellowship, Molecular and Cell Biology post-doctoral fellowship and Sleep Medicine training at UCSD and post-doctoral fellowship training at Harvard school of Public Health. Dr Jamil was named both California Thoracic Society (CTS) Outstanding Clinician and ATS Outstanding Clinician in 2022. At that time, she became the 4th women and 1st Asian-American to receive this prestigious recognition from ATS. She is a recipient of multiple teaching and research awards from USC, Scripps Clinic, University of California, Naval Academic Medical Center and American Lung Association. She has developed several ICU protocols for management of complex liver, transplant, COVID-19 patients and multidisciplinary measures to improve sleep in ICU and founded Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders Clinic, one of its first kind in California. Her clinical excellence is matched by her zeal for advancing education. Over the last 15 years, she has worked assiduously to develop clinical programs, curricula, CME conferences and hands-on-skills sessions at the local, regional and national level. She founded a free CME San Diego Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Case Conference. She is co-Editor of ATS Critical Care Review Book, member of ATS Scholar editorial board and Co-Editor of Sleep research topics at Frontiers in Neurology and Chairs Education Committee at CTS. At ATS Education Committee, she served as Chair of Sleep Core Curriculum, Co-founded/Chaired Rapid Response Document Series (regularly publishes in AJRCCM) which addresses emerging lung health issues to provide rapid information (re-named as Late Breaking Education Committee in 2024 which she is Chair of) and Co-Chairs Fellows Track. Her group published one of the first public health and clinical documents in the U.S. on SARS Co-V2 and COVID-19.
Pulmonary Chair
Dr. Montemayor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is the Program Director for the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. Her clinical interests include adult cystic fibrosis and oncologic critical care. She is a clinician educator involved in both undergraduate and graduate medical education and is the co-founder of PulmPEEPs, a digital education platform for pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Critical Care Chair
Dr. Soffler is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York Medical college with clinical expertise in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, and pulmonary medicine. Her academic interest are in medical education and she serves as the associate program director for the PCCM fellowship at Westchester Medical Center. After obtaining her medical degree from Tufts University, she completed residency training at Yale University followed by pulmonary and critical care fellowship and sleep medicine fellowship at Harvard University. Dr. Soffler joined the group at Westchester Medical Center in 2022.
FAST Co-Chair
Dr. Diaz-Mendoza is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Henry Ford Health-Wayne State University. He is the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. His areas of interest are Medical Education, Interventional Pulmonology and Critical Care. He is part of the Education Committee of the ATS and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the Critical Care Core Curriculum.
FAST Co-Chair
Dr. Carmona is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington, where he practices in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. He subspecializes in the care of patients with neuromuscular pulmonary disease. He also serves as an Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. His interests include medical education, professional development, and financial well-being.
Pediatric Co-Chair
Dr. DeBoer is an Associate Professor in the Section of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado and Director of Clinical Operations for the Breathing Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. DeBoer’s career is focused on improving the lives of children with pulmonary disease through better diagnostics and multidisciplinary care. Her research is focused on understanding the structure/function relationship of the lung and airway in children with aerodigestive disorders, rare diffuse lung disorders (chILD), and Down syndrome. She is dedicated to teaching pediatric flexible bronchoscopy nationally.
FTS Pediatric Co-Chair
Dr. Baker is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Ventilator Care Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado which provides comprehensive care for infants and children with tracheostomies and home mechanical ventilation. He is a recognized expert in the fields of chronic ventilation and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the chronic lung disease of prematurity.