Our three-year ACGME-accredited fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine prepares trainees to provide exceptional care for patients with a range of conditions and disease processes. At our three main training sites, UCI Medical Center, part of UCI Health, the VA Long Beach Healthcare System and Long Beach Medical Center, fellows are exposed to racially and socioeconomically diverse patient populations with a breadth of acute and chronic respiratory and critical care illnesses. We accept three or four fellows per class year. 

Our Culture

A core strength of our program is its emphasis on work-life balance despite our robust curriculum and busy rotation schedules.

Our Faculty

Supportive of trainees, and in turn the trainees support one another.

Open Lines of Communication

Essential to our team, fellows are encouraged to provide input and feedback in both structured and informal settings regarding curriculum, scheduling of rotations and anything else that might affect their training.

As faculty, we are gratified by the immediate impact we have on future clinicians. It is a joy to watch our trainees turn into confident, well-balanced and outstanding clinicians.

While the fellowship is primarily a clinical program, fellows are encouraged to become involved in clinical research under the mentorship of our faculty, who have a broad range of clinical research projects underway. Fellows routinely present at meetings and publish in prestigious journals.

Our Fellows

Valuing the importance of teaching others, our fellows are actively involved in the education of medical students and internal medicine residents.

Award Winning Members
Multiple members of our program have received the Department of Medicine’s Fellow of the Year Award in the last few years, a testament to the excellent instruction and guidance they provide our residents.

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Advanced Lung Diseases

Including pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease and pulmonary embolism

 

Critical Care Medicine

Fellows in our program undergo extensive clinical exposure to critical care medicine, including medical, neuro-ICU, trauma-ICU and surgical intensive care units. This hands-on experience allows fellows to manage a broad spectrum of critically ill patients.

Pleural Diseases

Our fellows are deeply immersed in a diverse range of pleural diseases, gaining hands-on experience in the diagnosis, management and treatment of conditions such as complex pleural effusions, pneumothorax and malignant pleural effusions.

Thoracic Oncology

Encompassing early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and interventional curative and palliative care, as well as end-of-life issues

Interventional Pulmonary

Including EBUS (endobronchial ultrasound), ENB (electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy), percutaneous tracheostomy and advanced pleural procedures

Sleep Medicine

Fellows receive training in the management of complex sleep disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, obesity hypoventilation syndrome and central sleep apnea.

Pulmonary Physiology

Including cardiopulmonary exercise testing

Adithya Cattamanchi, MD
Adithya Cattamanchi, MD

Chief, Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine

Professor, Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine

Katie Dong, MD
Katie Dong, MD

Director, Fellowship Program, Pulmonary Diseases

Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases Division
Jillian Meltebarger
Jillian Meltebarger

Fellowship Coordinator, Pulmonary Diseases