Faisal Shaikh, MD

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Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonology

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Overview

Faisal Shaikh, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Thoracic Surgery Section. He is the director of the newly founded Interventional Pulmonology Program at Columbia. This is a unique division that collaborates with thoracic surgery, pulmonary medicine, oncology and several other subspecialties in clinical care and research. Interventional pulmonology is at the forefront of performing state-of-the-art, minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic thoracic endoscopy. After earning his medical degree at University of Tennessee, Dr. Shaikh completed his medical residency at Weill Cornell, where he developed an interest in pulmonary disease. Thereafter, he completed several advanced fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by interventional fellowship at the Harvard combined Beth Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital program.
Dr. Shaikh's clinical work focuses on performing minimally invasive bronchoscopy to provide our patients with effective diagnostic and therapeutic options for lung nodules, lung masses, and lung cancer. He has expertise in palliating benign and malignant airway obstruction as well as performing minimally invasive, single incision thoracoscopy. He has worked in a collaborative effort on developing Columbia's lung volume reduction program in order to provide patients with advanced treatment options in emphysema.

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

Airway Stent
Brachytherapy
Bronchoscopy
Cryotherapy
Emphysema
Endobronchial Ultrasound
General Pulmonology
Interventional Pulmonology
Lung Biopsy
Lung Cancer
Lung Nodules
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
Medical Thoracoscopy
Navigational Bronchoscopy
Pleural Biopsy
Pleural Disease
Pleurodesis
Pleuroscopy
Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
Rigid Bronchoscopy
Sarcoidosis
Tracheobronchomalacia
Tracheostomy
Tunneled Pleural Catheters

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Surgery at CUMC

Administrative Titles

Director of Interventional Pulmonology

Hospital Affiliations

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital

Languages

Urdu

Gender

Male

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CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
161 Fort Washington Avenue

New York, NY 10032



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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

BA, Rhodes Collage
MD, University of Tennessee Center for Health Science
Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital-New York Weill Cornell Center
Fellowship: Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center
Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Massachusetts General Hospital

Board Certifications

Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
Critical Care Medicine

Honors & Awards

Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)

Research

Research Interests

Intraoperative metrics in assessing dynamic airflow obstruction and lobar ventilation and perfusion
Novel techniques in diagnostic Navigational Bronchoscopy
Optimizing candidate selection for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction

Selected Publications

Rahaghi FN, Trieu M, Shaikh F et al. Evolution of Obstructive Lung Function in Advanced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021
Belperio J, Shaikh F, Fereidoun A, Fishbein M, Saggar R, Lynch JP. Extrapulmonary Sarcoidosis with a focus on cardiac, nervous system, and ocular involvement. E Clinical Medicine 202;37
Shaikh F, Fereidoun A, Lau R, Saggar R, Belperio J, Lynch JP. Radiographic and histopathologic features of sarcoidosis: a pictorial display. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2020:41(5):758-784
Shaikh F, Lentz RJ, Feller-Kopman D, Maldonado F. Medical Thoracoscopy in the Diagnosis of Pleural Disease: A Guide for the Clinician. Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine 2020:(10):987-1000
Shaikh, F. Anklesaria, Z. Shagroni, T, et al. A Review of Exercise Pulmonary Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis. J Scleroderma and Related diseases March 2019. doi.org/10.1177/23971983151653
Seki A, Anklesaria Z, Saggar R, et al. Capillary Proliferation in Systemic-Sclerosis- Related Pulmonary Fibrosis: Association with Pulmonary Hypertension. ACR. March 2019;1(1):26-36
Oh SS, Wallace WD, Shaikh F, Lynch JP. Transbronchial Cryobiopsies. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2018;39(6):637-38