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Dr. Salim Surani serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Texas A&M University, as well as Clinical Professor of Pharmacology, Texas A&M University–Kingsville. In addition, he serves as a voluntary professor at the University of Houston, Texas, and a research collaborator at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. He has served as the program director for the Pulmonary Fellowship Program

at Bay Area Medical Center, Corpus Christi, Texas. He completed a fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Dr. Surani obtained a master's degree in Public Health and Epidemiology from Yale University, Connecticut, and a master's degree in Health Management from the University of Texas, Dallas. Dr. Surani is on the board of trustees and has served as secretary for the CHEST Foundation. He is also on the membership committee of the American College of Chest Physicians. He has also served as a chair of practice operations for the network of the American College of Chest Physicians. He serves on the award committee for ACCP and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). He is an editor in chief, editorial board member, and reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a steering committee member for the executive committee of networks of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Surani has authored more than 300 articles in journals and has written several books and book chapters. He has been involved in teaching residents for more than two decades. He has received faculty of the year awards numerous times. He has established himself as a master clinician who has trained significant numbers of practicing primary care, internal medicine, and emergency physicians in the Coastal Bend region of the United States. He has served as an independent grant reviewer for the Government of Australia, the Government of Singapore, as well as the European Nation via Rannis. Dr. Surani has established several ICU-intensivist models in the region and has served in every possible leadership role in the hospital system. He also helped start an emergency medicine residency program. He also started a pulmonary critical care fellowship with the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and successfully led the program with no citations. He then converted the program into a pulmonary medicine fellowship program when the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and AOA merged, leading to its accreditation. He has served as a speaker at several regional, national, and international scientific conferences. His areas of expertise include critical care, sleep medicine, ICU infections, and practice operations. Dr. Surani serves as a resident health expert for KIII-TV, Texas (an affiliate of ABC News). He has also served on committees for several national organizations and has received several community and teaching awards, including the Health Care Hero award and humanitarian awards by the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Texas Medical Association. Dr. Surani is highly regarded among his peers and is very well respected as a mentor, clinician, and humanitarian.

Dr. Venkat Rajasurya currently works as an attending pulmonary critical care physician at MultiCare Health System, Tacoma, Washington. He previously worked as an attending physician in the Novant Health system in North Carolina and has worked as a clinical assistant professor at the Southern Illinois University program in Decatur, Illinois for 4 years, and served as director of multiple clinical and leadership committees at Decatur

Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Illinois. Dr. Rajasurya completed his fellowship in Pulmonary Critical Care at Cook County/ Rush University Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. He served as the medical advisor for the Illinois Society of Respiratory Care for three years. He has played a key role in the training and education of medical and pharmacy residents as well as physician assistants throughout his career. He has served as a co-investigator for several clinical trials at MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, Tacoma, Washington, and Southeastern Research Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Rajasurya has authored and reviewed articles and serves as an editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals. He has given oral presentations at several national and international conferences. His areas of interest include obstructive airway diseases, interstitial lung diseases, lung cancer, sepsis, critical care management of acute conditions, and resident education. He is an active member of the American College of Chest Physicians and was awarded FCCP for his excellence, dedication, and leadership in chest medicine. He is also actively involved in the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Thoracic Society. In addition to multiple teaching and research awards throughout his career, he was awarded the prestigious Gold Doc Award by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for humanism in medicine.

## Contents


#### **Section 4** Exacerbation **101**


**Chapter 5 103** Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis *by Nitesh Kumar Jain, Shikha Jain, Hisham Ahmed Mushtaq, Anwar Khedr, Thoyaja Koritala, Aysun Tekin, Ramesh Adhikari, Anupam Sule, Samir Gautam, Vishwanath Pattan, Vikas Bansal, Ali Rabaan, Kovid Trivedi, Amos Lal, Brian Bartlett, Abbas Jama, Aishwarya Reddy Korsapati, Mohamed Hassan, Simon Zec, Adham Mohsen, Amit Munshi Sharma, Ibtisam Rauf, Mikael Mir, Lia Nandi, Mool Chand, Hariprasad Reddy Korsapati, Rahul Kashyap, Salim Surani and Syed Anjum Khan*

#### **Section 5**


