Faculty Profile

Ajay Wagh
Section of Pulmonary / Critical Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine
awagh@bsd.uchicago.edu
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Academic Interests

Dr. Wagh’s research interests focus on the development of minimally invasive techniques that help to diagnose and stage lung cancer as well as treat and palliate symptoms of chronic respiratory illness. Additionally, he has an interest in the biology of airway epithelial injury in benign disease.
 

Clinical Interests

Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Bronchoscopy. Complex Airway and Pleural Diseases. Critical Care Medicine.
 

Publications

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Training

  • BS, 2001, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Biomedical Enginering
  • MS, 2003, University of Memphis & UT, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, Biomedical Engineering
  • MD, 2007, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, Medicine
  • Residency, 2010, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Internal Medicine
  • Fellowship, 2013, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, Pulmonary and Critical Care
  • Fellowship, 2020, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, Interventional Pulmonology