CURRICULUM VITAE



2011

CURRICULUM VITAE

CAROLYN H. WELSH, M.D.

ADDRESS:

Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Pulmonary Care 111A

1055 Clermont Street

Denver, Colorado 80220

Phone: (303) 393-2869

Fax: (303) 393-4639

PRESENT POSITION:

Staff Physician

Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center

1985 - Present

Staff physician University of Colorado Hospital

Professor of Medicine

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

2002 - Present

PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Special appointment to graduate program in Clinical Sciences

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

2004 - 2007

ad hoc appointment to Biometrics Department, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

2002 - 2004

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

1991 - 2002

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

1985 - 1991

Instructor, Harvard University

1979 - 1982

Research Assistant, Sidney Farber Cancer Center, Boston, MA

1974 - 1975

BORN: Springfield, Massachusetts

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE: Oberlin College, AB 1974

MEDICAL DEGREE: Boston University, MD 1979

INTERNSHIP: Internal Medicine - Beth Israel Hospital

Harvard University, 1979 - 1980

RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine - Beth Israel Hospital

Harvard University, 1980 - 1982

FELLOWSHIP: Pulmonary Medicine - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 1982 - 1985

Research - Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 1983 - 1985.

STATE LICENSURE: Colorado: 1982 - present

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Internal Medicine 1982-no time limit

Pulmonary Medicine 1984-no time limit

Critical Care Medicine 1987 - 1997

C.C.M. Recertification 1997 – 2007

2007- 2117

Sleep Medicine 2009- 2119

Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine

April 2003

CERTIFICATION: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), 1990 - 2012

ACLS Instructor Certification, 1998 – 2006

BLS through 2012

HONORS: Alpha Omega Alpha, 1979

Internal Medicine Award, University Hospital, Boston, 1979

Bertha Curtis Award for Outstanding Woman Medical Student, 1979

Listed in The Best Doctors in America, 1998-99 edition. Edited by Smith GW, Naifeh SW, Stec LP. Aiken, SC: Woodward and White, 1998. Relisted through 2012.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

1. Alpha Omega Alpha, Boston University Chapter, Elected 1979

2. American College of Physicians, Associate 1981 - 1985, Member - 1987 - 1990, Fellow 1991 - present

3. American Thoracic Society, 1984 - present

4. Colorado Trudeau Society/Colorado Thoracic Society, 1983 - present

5. Colorado Thoracic Society program committee member 2001 - present

6. American Medical Women’s Association, Treasurer Colorado Chapter, 1985 - 1991, Member 1992 - present

7. American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow, 1985 - present

8. National Association of Veterans Administration Physicians, 1985 - present

9. Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1992 - 2010

10. American Federation for Medical Research, 1994 - present

11. American Heart Association General Professional Member, 2003 - present

12. Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care Council, American Heart Association, 2000 -2006.

13. Founding member of the Colorado Sleep Society 2004-present

14. Member Colorado COPD coalition advisory council; lay speaker on COPD management

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

1. Abnormalities of coagulation in pulmonary hypertension and COPD, focusing on the protein C complex.

2. Genetic and procoagulant risk factors in venous thromboembolism, epidemiologic approach.

3. Prediction of outcome after intensive care unit admission.

AWARDS AND GRANTS:

1. Edward Livingston Trudeau Award, American Lung Association, 1985 - 1988.

2. Hoechst Roussel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for Pentoxifylline Research, 1987 - 1989.

3. Denver VA Health Sciences Research & Development Grant, ICU Outcome Study, 1992 - 1994, $10,000.

4. Principal Investigator at the Denver site of VA Cooperative “Efficacy of passive immunization in the prevention of infection with Klebsiella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 1990 – 1995.

5. Co-Principal Investigator and member of steering committee, NIH Consortium for ARDS Clinical Trials. January 1996 - December 2002, $913,146, NIH contract # NO1HR46061.

6. Site Principal Investigator for funded NIH clinical trial “Trial of low dose Warfarin in secondary prevention of venous thromboembolism among patients with and without factor V Leiden.” (PREVENT). July 1998 - January 2003, NIH contract # 1RO1HL57951-01A1.

7. Faculty Award to develop web-based teaching in pulmonary medicine, “Teaching with Technology,” University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. 1998 - 1999.

8. VA Merit Review co-Principal Investigator with Richard Marlar, PhD. “Epidemiology of genetic and acquired risk factors for venous thromboembolism: A case control study.” April 1999 - March 2002.

9. Co-Principal Investigator, Competitive renewal of VA Merit review award “Epidemiology of genetic and acquired risk factors for venous thromboembolism.” April 2002 - March 2007.

10. Co-Investigator with Richard Albert MD (Denver Health and Hospital Authority), “Novel strategies targeting acute exacerbation of COPD.” COPD clinical research network, NHLBI. July 2003 - June, 2008. This is a network grant with a purpose to devise new treatment strategies in COPD exacerbations.

11. Co-Investigator and member of steering committee, NIH Consortium for ARDS Clinical Trials. January 1996 - 2004.

12. Consultant to David C. Ward, PhD. NIH RO1 grant submission for a comprehensive SNP analysis of individuals from high risk families for VTE from the VA Merit review funded population case/control study... February 2003.

13. Mentored K23 award for James O’Brien from NHLBI, relocated to Ohio State University 2005.

14. University of Colorado Hospital “Far Beyond the Ordinary” recognition award for the sleep lab implementation team. June 2005.

National talks / INVITED LECTURES:

• ATS fellow track symposium program co-director May 13-14, 2011

• ATS talk May 13, 2011 Non-Mycobacterial Tuberculosis: Wimpy Hosts, Weak Bugs or the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

• ATS great case symposium co-chair and speaker May 2009 San Diego, CA

• ATS great case symposium co-chair and speaker May 2010 New Orleans, LA

• Keystone Geriatrics conference sponsored by University of Colorado Geriatrics Division. September 9, 2007. Sleep and Aging.

• Keystone twenty-ninth National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium, sponsored by UCDenver School of Nursing. Insomnia. July 14, 2006.

• Estes Park Internal Medicine conference Sleep apnea. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. July 2005.

• Keystone twenty-ninth National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium, sponsored by UCHSC School of Nursing. Sleep Apnea and Narcolepsy case management: diagnosis and treatment. July 17, 2004.

• Keystone twenty-sixth National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium, sponsored by UCHSC School of Nursing. Sleep Disordered Breathing and Insomnia: How to Take a Sleep History and Why. July, 2001

• Co-chair of Postgraduate course on Venous Thromboembolism. San Francisco, CA. American Thoracic Society. May 2001.

• Speaker, Post-graduate course on Venous Thromboembolism. How to use genetic and acquired risk factor assessment in clinical management. San Francisco, CA. American Thoracic Society. May 2001.

• Invited speaker American Thoracic Society symposium, pro-con debate: Testing for venous thrombophilia should be done on all patients with venous thromboembolism. American Thoracic Society International meeting, San Francisco CA. May 2001.

• Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism. Good Samaritan Hospital Pulmonary Division Grand Rounds Phoenix, Arizona. January 2001.

• Coagulation and Fibrinolytic Factors in Pulmonary Hypertension. Invited speaker at the Deckers Pulmonary Circulation American Heart Association Conference (national meeting). September 11, 2000.

• Twenty-third National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium. Keystone, CO. “X-ray interpretation in the adult and older adult.” July 9, 1998.

• Twenty second National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium. COPD/RAD Pharmacology/Clinical. Keystone, Colorado. July 11, 1997.

• The Aging Lung 33rd Annual Internal Medicine Program. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Estes Park, Colorado. July 18, 1997.

• The Aging Lung at Geriatrics Board Review Course Denver. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. March 1996.

• The Aging Lung and Sleep Disorders in the Elderly Geriatrics Board Review Course, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Breckenridge. January 28, 1994.

• Respiratory Disease in the Elderly Geriatrics Board Review Course, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. March 1992.

• Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis in the Elderly Geriatrics Board Review Course, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Winter Park, March 27, 1992.

• New Approaches to Mechanical Ventilation American Thoracic Society (ATS) Sunrise Seminar, Los Angeles CA. May, 1991.

• ATS Symposium on ARDS/ Multiorgan system failure speaker: Kidney Dysfunction in Multiple Organ Failure, Los Angeles, CA. May, 1991.

• Co-Chair of Symposium on ARDS/multiorgan system failure, Los Angeles, CA. May 1991.

• American Thoracic Society Sunrise Seminar. Miami Florida. Occupational Asthma. May 1984.

REGIONAL INVITED LECTURES:

• Planning committee annual Colorado thoracic society great cases conference October 6, 2011

• Panelist on ethics consultation at annual Colorado Healthcare Ethics forum (CHEF) May 1 2010

• Speaker and organizer at the annual Colorado Thoracic Society Great Cases Conference October 15, 2010 on hypersensitivity pneumonitis from CPAP.

• Allied Health Conference, National Jewish Medical Center March 17, 2007. Medications that cause insomnia.

• Family Practice conference Case studies in sleep disorders November 2004.

• Sleep—in the critical care unit? Denver Health Medical Center Critical Care Grand Rounds 12/03

• Update in Mechanical Ventilation and Noninvasive Ventilation, Sheridan Wyoming VAMC January 11, 2000.

• Ventilator Update and Techniques. Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, CO September 1999.

• A Breath of Fresh Air. How to Treat your Lungs with Care. Sterling, CO, February 16, 1998.

• COPD CME Lecture. Sterling Regional Medical Center, February 16, 1998.

• The Aging Lung. Geriatric Grand Rounds, October 16, 1997.

• The Aging Lung and Outpatient Spirometry June 26, 1997, Colorado Academy of Family Physicians 1997 Annual Scientific Meeting, Steamboat Springs, CO.

• Ventilator Management, Grand Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center, May 2, 1997, CME course.

• Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning Medical Grand Rounds, Cheyenne VAMC, December 1996.

• The Aging Lung and Pulmonary Disease in the Geriatric Patient (Aurora Presbyterian Hospital) September 1996.

• Department of Medicine Clinical Pathology Conference Discussant February 1995 - Hemoptysis & Lung Nodules.

• Office Evaluation of Pulmonary Function (40th Annual Family Practice Review Course) November 11, 1994.

• Interstitial Lung Disease CME Course High Plains Medical Round Up, Cheyenne, WY, October 8, 1993.

• ARDS - Department Internal Medicine, Air Force Academy 1992 (April)

• ARDS - Statewide Nursing Symposium 1992 (April)

• ARDS Citywide Nursing Symposium 1991.

• Update on Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, March 1991 Medical Grand Rounds, Cheyenne Wyoming VA Medical Center.

• Medical Department Clinical Pathologic Conference, Lymphangitic Carcinoma, September 14, 1990.

• New Strategies in Mechanical Ventilation, Medical Grand Rounds, Cheyenne, Wyoming VAMC, October 1990.

• The Aging Lung and its Disorders (Geriatrics Board Review Course, Estes Park), August 1989.

• VA Annual Staff Meeting - Women in Medicine, January 1989

• Women in Medicine, American Medical Women’s Association, September 1989.

• Medical Grand Rounds UCHSC 11/88 - Pulmonary Complications of Transplantation.

• Colorado American College of Physicians Regional meeting January, 1987 Occupational Asthma

• Colorado Internal Medicine Day January 1986 - Pulmonary Edema

• January 1985 - Occupational Asthma

TEACHING/TALKS:

Dreams: talk and workshop with regional teen group February 2011

University Colorado ethics course for first year health sciences and medical students in spring 2009, fall 2009, spring 2010 and spring 2011. Each is a 5-6 weeks small group teaching section.

Core faculty for sleep fellowship program 2008-present with weekly participation in conferences and clinic supervision

Locked rooms on locked words: a non-case approach. Ethics conference sponsored by University of Colorado Hospital ethics committee. April 13, 2011

• Ethics survey results presented to VA director's meeting March 1, 2011.

• Neuromuscular disorders and sleep to Sleep fellowship program April 2011

Endocrine influences on sleep. Sleep fellowship program talk NJH February 2011

Narcolepsy National Jewish Sleep Disorders Conference. March 2003, October 2010.

• Journal club sleep medicine fellowship October 2010

Narcolepsy RLS, and PLMS. Pulmonary fellow's conference March 2003, October 2003, January 2005, November 2005, March 23, 2007, March 2008, February 2009, February 2010, November 2010.

• Insomnia lecture to pulmonary fellows Spring 2010.

Post traumatic stress disorder and Sleep to sleep fellowship program. February 2010 and November 2010.

Mechanical ventilation House staff lecture series 8/12/09, 9/16/09

Pulmonary embolism journal club for interns 8/12/09

Ethical Challenges at VA Medical centers: Director's Staff meeting 8/4/09

Pulmonary medical student course cardiovascular-pulmonary-renal block for the first-year medical students spring 2009.

Professionalism talk to housestaff: new conflict of interest drug rep interactions for the university September 5, 2008

Integrated ethics challenge at all medical and clinical staff meeting November 21, 2008.

Organization and implementation of third year pulmonary fellow month-long rotation in sleep medicine. 2005 - 2007. 6 fellows through academic year 2006-8.

sleep rotation for pulmonary fellows: reorganization 2008- . commitment to 5 months of teaching academic year 2008-09 and 2009-10

implementation of sleep fellowship program half day weekly at ECHCS/Denver VA 2008-present.

Sleep journal club on Restless leg syndrome in renal failure. September 20, 2005

Department of Internal Medicine clinical pathologic conference, a case of subacute shortness of breath, interstitial lung disease. September 2, 2005.

• Department Medicine Noon Conference series - Mechanical Ventilation. February, 1992, December 1992, May 1994, May 1996, July 1996, July 1997, July 1998, July 1999, September 2000, August 2001, July 2002, July 2003, November 2004, August 2005,July 2007, November 2008.

• Sleep apnea for the clinical talk to University of Colorado sleep lab technicians, July 2005.

Sleep journal club on cardiovascular disease and sleep apnea. May 17, 2005

• Journal club on sleep and residency work hours, Department of Medicine February 2005. New England Journal "Extended Work Shifts and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes among Interns" from Jan 13, 2005

Sleep Journal club on gender differences in sleep apnea presentation. March 22, 2005

Mechanical ventilation 2005. Nurse education course at Denver VAMC January 2005 and August 26, 2005.

Sleep apnea and things that go bump in the night November 2004, division of general internal medicine weekly lecture.

Update on national advanced sleep medicine conference: insomnia, pediatric sleep and stimulant use. Sleep medicine group. March 2, 2004

Journal club, sleep medicine group ventilation and sleep. January 20, 2004

Pulmonary hypertension, nurse practitioner’s conference Denver VA Medical Center November 7, 2002.

Update in Sleep Medicine Research in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Presentation at city-wide sleep conference after VA sleep research meeting March 8-9, 2002.

Noninvasive ventilation, acute and chronic. An evidence based approach. Pulmonary fellow critical care lecture series. December 14, 2001, January 2003, January 2004, December 2004, July 2005.

Performance and Interpretation of pulmonary function testing. Southern Colorado VAMC presentation to Primary Care Group in Pueblo CO October 16, 2001

Coordinator of a new lecture series for Denver VA Medical Center MICU nurses on selected topics in the ICU 2001-2002. Speaker for talks on acute lung injury, noninvasive ventilation, and pulmonary function testing implications for the ICU.

Journal club with medical residents on: D-dimer and dead space calculation use in diagnosing pulmonary embolism, June 2001.

Journal club with medical residents on use of activated protein C in sepsis, March 2001.

• Respiratory Therapy lecture, Weaning from mechanical ventilation, May 2001.

• Critical Care Course for ICU nurses, Denver VA Medical Center: lectures on mechanical ventilation, January 2001.

• Journal Club for Sleep Physicians on Treatment of Central Sleep Apnea: National Jewish Center September 21, 2000

• Restless leg syndrome lecture, Sleep physicians lecture series, 11/00 on date of Sleep Center accreditation national review.

• Narcolepsy, Sleep physicians lecture series March 2003.

• Noninvasive ventilation and respiratory therapy techniques (Pulmonary Fellow topics course) March 3, 2000,

• Noninvasive ventilation (Pulmonary fellows critical care series November 2001, January 2003, autumn 2003, 2004, September 2005, September 2007).

• Parkinson’s disease and sleep (National Jewish Medical Center Sleep conference) February 15,2000

• Albumin therapy for the critically ill (Pulmonary fellow critical care course) February 11,2000, November 2000

• ACLS Provider Course Co-Coordinator, 1991 – 2005 instructor 1997- present

• Concepts of Ventilator Weaning (Critical Care Course, Pulmonary Fellows) 1990 - 2006

• National VA research week poster presentation of Outstanding Women research scientists April 1996. Denver VA Medical center.

• How clinicians use the laboratory: arterial blood gas interpretation and use. Laboratory Medicine service, Denver VAMC January 20, 1998.

• Internal Medicine, Attending Denver VA Medical Center, 1986 – 2001.

• Mechanical Ventilation (Critical Care Course for Pulmonary Fellows, 2 lecture series) 1987- 1994

• Resident Advocacy Program Mentor 1996 - 1997

• Morning Report, Internal Medicine at Denver VAMC, 1995 - 1997.

• Department Internal Medicine Journal Club CT Scan in Pulmonary Emboli. April 2000.

• Nebulizers vs metered dose inhalers in acute asthma and COPD. Department of Internal Medicine Journal Club. 2000.

• Department Internal Medicine Journal Club on Mechanical Ventilation 1995 (February), COPD 1998 (April)

• Department Internal Medicine Journal Club on Pulmonary Emboli 1994 (April)

• Department Internal Medicine Journal Club on Career Choices 1994 (October)

• Department Internal Medicine Journal Club on Stress Gastritis in the ICU 1994 (November)

• Pulmonary Lecture Series: Preoperative Assessment of Pulmonary Function 1994, 1997

• New Issues in Mechanical Ventilation (Cardiothoracic Surgery Conference) 1994 (June)

• Department of Medicine Noon Conference Series - Prophylaxis in the ICU, March 1994; MKSAP Review Course May 1995.

• Pulmonary Function Testing as Preoperative Surgical Assessment (Cardiothoracic Surgery Conference, VA Faculty Conference). 1993 (January, April)

• Critical Care Course - Severity of Illness Assessment in the ICU 1992

• Clinical Pathology Course, February, 1992 and 1993, Pulmonary Function

• Ethics Course, Department of Medicine - Justice, January, 1992, April, 1993

• Pulmonary Function Testing, Lectures for Interpretive Clinical Pathology Course fourth year Medical School course, 1992, 1993.

• Critical Care Course Preoperative Assessment of Pulmonary Function 1992

• Denver VA Medical Center - Challenging Case Conference: ARDS 1991

• Chest Pain (Nursing Symposium) 1990

• Chest Pain (Respiratory Therapy Lecture DVAMC) 1990 and 1993

• Pulmonary Function Testing (Ambulatory Care Respiratory Therapy Lecture 1989

• Organizer of and Speaker at Critical Care Course for VA Medical Residents Talks on ARDS, Mechanical Ventilation, Shock, Swan Ganz Catheter use, ICU prophylaxis 1989 - 1993

• ACLS Lectures, 1989 - 1996

• Student Oral Examinations, 1989 - 1996

• Mechanical Ventilation (MICU Nursing) 1989

• Post Op Mechanical Ventilation (Cardiac Surgery Conference) 1988

• Contributor Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical News Review, 1988 - 1994

• PFT and ABG interpretation (Nurse Practitioners, DVAMC) 1987

• Pulmonary Function Testing (Cardiac Surgery Conference, UCHSC) 1987

• Physical Diagnosis, Fall, 1986, 2003 (second year students) , and 2005 (first year students)

• Second Year Pathophysiology Course, Pulmonary Physiology, 1985 – 1990, 1997, 2006.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts submitted to:

American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

American Review of Respiratory Disease/American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Blood, Coagulation, and Fibrinolysis

Chest

Circulation, 2002

Journal of Applied Physiology

Journal of American Medical Association

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1999

Intensive Care Medicine, 2000

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, 2005

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2008

Editorial board Chest, 2002 – 2005.

Editorial Board Southwest journal of pulmonary and critical care medicine 2010-

American Heart Association National Grant Review Committee on Lung, Resuscitation and Respiration, March 2007- 2009.

American Lung Association group reviewer April 2011.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

University-wide

2011- Member of Colorado Allied Ethics Committee Chairs

2004-present VA liaison to Department of Medicine professionalism committee

2003 Pulmonary Division Research Retreat Committee

1992 - 2001 COMIRB (Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board)

1996 - 2000 Vice-chairman, COMIRB for DVAMC

1995 - 2000 Member, Clinical Practice Advisory Committee, Division of

Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, UC Denver.

1995 - 1998 Member UCHSC Faculty Senate

1998 - 2000 Member UCHSC Clinical Research Consortium

1989 -1992 Critical Care Medicine advisory panel with mission to develop University-wide training curriculum in critical care

1995 -1999 Member of Critical Care Committee

1987 - 2008 Pulmonary Fellowship Selection Committee

1994 - 1997 Pulmonary Critical Care Endowment Committee, Alumni Liaison

Hospital-wide

1998 - Present Director, Sleep Laboratory Denver VA Medical Center, an active diagnostic laboratory with > 700 studies performed yearly.

2001 - Present Chair, Denver VA Medical Center Medical Center Ethics Committee

2007- Present Member ECHSC integrated Ethics Council

2010 Issues cycle group on ethics consultation

2004 - 2007 Director Sleep Laboratory University Hospital

1996 - 2000 Acting Chief, Respiratory Care Section Denver VA Medical Center

1988 - 2005 Medical Director of Medical ICU, Denver VA Medical Center

1995 - 1997 Assistant Chief of Medicine, Denver VA Medical Center

1992 - 2005 Chairman Medicine Service Quality Improvement Committee

1985 - 2001 Director of Denver VA Medical Center, Pulmonary Physiology Unit

1989 - 1995 Chairman, Critical Care Committee, Denver VA Medical Center

1995 - 2000 Member, Critical Care Committee, Denver VA Medical Center

1992 Acting Assistant Chief of Medicine, Denver VA Medical Center

2000 - 2001 Member Denver VA Human Subjects Committee

1996 - 2000 Chairman Denver VA Human Subjects Committee

1991 - 2000 Women Liaison Officer at DVAMC for AAMC

1993 - 1994 Member Denver VA Medical Center Hospital Quality Management Committee

1994 - 2001 Denver VA Medical Center Hospital Ethics Committee

1995 Member Ad hoc Hospital Committee on Conscious Sedation

1995 - 2000 Member Research and Development Committee Denver VA Medical Center

1998 - 2000 Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy, Denver VA Medical Center

State Committees:

1. Member of program steering committee, Colorado Thoracic Society (CTS), 2001-

2. Vice president CTS 2006- present

3. Chapter representative to the ATS council 2006-present

4. Organizer of the CTS best case conference 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

National Committees:

1. American Thoracic Society Board of Directors, 2009-12

2. American Thoracic Society Board Documents Review Subcommittee 2011-2012

3. American Thoracic Society planning committee 2010-12

4. ATS Year of the lung committee 2009-

5. ATS education/CME task force 2010-

6. ATS International Conference Committee 2010-2011

7. ATS Career Development Task Force 2010-

8. ATS Foundation Board of Trustees 2010-2011

9. American Thoracic Society, Clinician's Advisory Committee 2009-2012

10. American Thoracic Society, Awards Committee, 2008-2010.

11. American Thoracic Society Council of Chapter Representatives, Secretary February 2008-2009, president-elect 2009-2010, president 2010-11, immediate past president 2011-2012.

12. American Thoracic Society Council of Chapter Representatives, May 2006 -

13. American Thoracic Society Program Review Subcommittee, May 25, 2004 - May 24, 2006.

14. American Thoracic Society Women’s Mentoring Program Subcommittee, 2001 - 2004.

15. American Thoracic Society, Membership Committee, 1997 - 2001.

16. National ATS Program Committee, Section on Critical Care, 1991.

17. Program Committee on “Supportive Issues in Lung Cancer Care” for the 7th World Conference on Lung Cancer, 1994.

18. Chair of Symposium entitled "Infectious Issues" at 7th World Conference on Lung Cancer, 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Keith R, Welsh CH. A 45-Year-Old Man with Excessive Daytime Somnolence, and Witnessed Apnea at Altitude. In press Southwest Journal of pulmonary and critical care medicine. March 2011.

2. Zwillich CW, Welsh CH. Hypercapnic obstructive sleep apnea: an underappreciated marker of severity. Chest. 2007 Dec;132(6):1729-30.

3. McGhan R, Radcliff T, Fish R, Sutherland ER, Welsh CH, Make B. Predictors of Rehospitalization and Death After a Severe Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Chest. 2007 Dec;132(6):1748-55.

5. Marlar RA, Potts RM, Welsh CH. Venous thrombosis; a systems biology approach, Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2007 Apr;18 :215-7.

6. Welsh CH. Chapter on Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Care Secrets, fourth edition, in press 2007.

7. Harahan S, Welsh CH. Shortness of breath and hypoxemia after chemotherapy with gemcitabine. Chest. 2007 Jun;131(6):1978-81.

8. Marlar RA, Potts RM, Welsh CH: Accuracy of diagnosis of protein S deficiency by protein S activity and antigen assays. J Clin Ligand 28:130-135, 2005.

9. J M. O’Brien, Jr., MD, CH. Welsh, MD, Ronald H. Fish, MBA, Marek Ancukiewicz, PhD, Andrew M. Kramer, MD, for the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. Excess body weight is not independently associated with outcome in mechanically ventilated patients with acute lung injury. Ann Intern Med. 2004; 140(5):338-345.

10. Olson A, Gutman J, Welsh CH. Roentgenogram of the month, a 50-year-old male with skin lesions and multiple pulmonary nodules. Chest; 2004 125: 2322-2327.

11. Graf LL, Welsh CH, Qamar Z, Marlar RA. Activated Protein C Resistance Assay Detects Thrombotic Risk Factors Other Than Factor V Leiden. Am J Clin Path 2003; 119: 52-60.

12. Schnapp L, Welsh CH, Matosian M, Weissman I. The American Thoracic Society; A Snapshot at the turn of the century. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2003; 167:1176-1180.

13. Ridker PM, Goldhaber SZ, Danielson, E et al for the PREVENT Investigators. Long-Term, Low-Intensity Warfarin Therapy for the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism 2003; 348:1325-1434.

14. Nana-Sinkam P, Welsh CH. Pulmonary embolism, diagnosis and treatment. Primary Care Case Reviews March 2002; 5: 28-39.

15. Suratt B, Welsh CH, A 48 year old smoker with cough and weight loss. Chest 2000; 118: 239-241.

16. The ARDS Network. A randomized Placebo Controlled Trial of Ketoconazole for Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury and Acute respiratory Distress Syndrome. JAMA, 2000; 283: 1995-2002.

17. Webb TS, Glueck DS, Baron AE, Welsh CH. "Conditional power test size and sample size for 2x2 tables using an internal pilot," PhD thesis 2000.

18. The ARDS Network. Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. New Engl J Med 2000; 342:1301-1308.

19. Roche V, Welsh CH. Long-term Functional Outcome after Intensive Care. J American Geriatrics Society, January 1999: 11-17.

20. Welsh CH, Thompson K, Long-Krug S. Evaluation of patient-perceived health status using medical outcomes survey short-form 36 in an intensive care unit population. Crit Care Med 1999; 27: 1466-1471.

21. Garg K, Sieler HJ, Welsh CH, Johnston RJ, Russ PD. Clinical validity of helical CT being interpreted as negative for pulmonary embolism; implications for patient treatment. Am J Roentgenology 1999; 172:1627-1630.

22. Garg K, Welsh CH, Feyerband AJ, Subber SW, Russ PD, Johnson RJ, Durham JD, Lynch D. Pulmonary Embolism: Diagnosis with Spiral CT and Ventilation-Perfusion Scanning-Correlation with Pulmonary Angiographic Results or Clinic Outcome. Radiology 1998; 208:201-208.

23. Chan ED, Welsh CH. Geriatric Respiratory Medicine. Chest 1998; 114;1704-1733.

24. Ellison RT, Perez-Perez G, Welsh CH, Blaser MJ, Peduzzi D, Riester K, Cross A, Donta ST. The role of Helicobacter pylori in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in intensive care unit patients Critical Care Med, 24:1974-1981, 1996.

25. Donta ST, Peduzzi P, Cross AS, Sadoff J, Haakensdon C, Cryz SJ, Kauffman C, Bradley S, Gafford G, Elliston D, Musgrave TL, Beam T, John J, Ribner B, Cantey R, Welsh CH, Ellison RT, Young EJ, Hamill R, Leaf H, Schein RMH, Mulligan M, Johnson C, Abrutyn E, Griffis JM, Hamadeh R, Eliasson AH, McClain JB, Melcher G, Kelly W, Byrne WR, Wallace M, Miller J, Amundson D, Slagle D, for Federal Hyperimmune Immunoglobulin Trial Study Group. Immunoprophylaxis against Klebsiella and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections. Journal Infectious Disease, 174:537-543, 1996.

26. Welsh CH, Hassell KL, Badesch DB, Kressin DC, Marlar RA. Coagulation and fibrinolytic abnormalities in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension. Chest 110:710-717, 1996.

27. Welsh CH, Pedot R, Anderson R. Use of morning report to enhance adverse event detection: A prospective trial. J Gen Int Med 11:454-460, 1996.

28. Chan ED, Welsh CH. Fulminant mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: A review of the English literature. Western Journal of Med. 162:133-142, 1995.

29. Welsh CH, P Wagner, Houston C, Reeves J. Pulmonary function and lung edema at 29,000 ft. altitude. Am Rev Resp Dis 147:1239-1244, 1993.

30. Dauber IM, PE Parsons, Welsh CH, Giclas PC, Whitman GJR, Johnson M, Wheeler GS, Horwitz LD, and Weil JV. Peripheral bypass-induced pulmonary and coronary vascular injury: association with increased levels of tumor necrosis factor. Circ 88:726-735, 1993.

31. Welsh CH. Drug resistant tuberculosis after gastrectomy: Double jeopardy? Chest 99:245-247, 1991.

32. Sato K, Stelzner TJ, O'Brien RF, Weil JV, Welsh CH. Pentoxifylline lessens the endotoxin-induced increase in albumin clearance across pulmonary artery endothelial monolayers with and without neutrophils. Am J Resp Cell and Mol Biol Vol. 4:219-227, 1991.

33. Morrison DM, Klein C, and Welsh CH. Relief of right ventricular angina and increased exercise capacity with chronic oxygen therapy. Chest,100:534-539, 1991.

34. Welsh CH, Watters LM, Harbeck RJ, and Smith H. Indolent staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. West J Med 153:316-319, 1990.

35. Welsh CH, Dauber IM, and Weil JV. Influence of prostaglandin El vascular protein leak induced by endotoxin in the Dog. J Crit Care 4:21-30, 1989.

36. Welsh CH, Lien D, Worthen GS, Henson P, and Weil JV. Endotoxin pretreated neutrophils increase pulmonary vascular permeability in the dog. J Appl Physiol 66:112-119, 1989.

37. Welsh CH, Lien D, Worthen GS, and Weil JV. Pentoxifylline decreases endotoxin-induced pulmonary neutrophil sequestration and extravascular protein accumulation in the dog. Am. Rev. Resp. Dis. 138:1106-1114, 1988.

38. Stelzner TJ, Welsh CH, Berger E, McCullough RG, Morris K, Repine JE, and Weil JV. Antiarrhythmic agent diminish thiourea induced pulmonary vascular protein leak in rats. J Appl Physiol 63:1877-1883, 1987.

39. Welsh CH, Dauber IM, and Weil JV. Endotoxin increases pulmonary vascular protein permeability in the dog. J Appl Physiol 61:1395-1402, 1986.

40. Mason RJ, Buist AS, Fisher EBB, Merchant JA, Samet JM, and Welsh CH. Cigarette smoking and health official ATS statement. Am Rev Respir Dis 132:1133-1136, 1985.

41. Welsh CH, Wanger J, and Irvin C. PFT corner: Isovolume flow. Respiratory Care 28:1032, 1983.

42. Livingston DM, Welsh CH Ferguson, Gollogy R, and Lazarus H. Accumulation of cystine auxotrophic thymocytes accompanying type C viral leukemogenesis in the mouse. Cell 7:41-47, 1976.

Manuscripts in process

1. Welsh CH, Coll J, MaWhinney S, Villa-Nueva C, Sethi G, Grover F, Hammermeister K, Shroyer L. A Comparison of CABG patient risk factors collected by research nurse interview and medical chart abstraction: Implications for risk-adjusted mortality rate calculations.

2. Welsh CH, Young D, Pfister D, Luck T, Wilson J. Impact of Implementation of Advanced Directives on CPR Outcome.

3. Marlar RA, Graf L, Welsh CH. Lack of correlation of the common genetic polymorphisms of methylenetetradydrofolate reductase with plasma levels of homocysteine and venous thrombosis.

4. Welsh CH, Kashikar P, Graf L, Marlar RA. COPD, a hypercoagulable state? Manuscript in preparation for Am J Resp Crit Care Med.

5. Welsh CH, Marlar RA. Ethics of genetic testing for venous thrombosis. In preparation for Federal Practitioner.

BOOKS, CHAPTERS, EDITORIALS AND REVIEWS:

1. Welsh CH. Acute Diffuse Infiltrates and Fever in Pulmonary Grand Rounds.

Marvin I. Schwarz, editor. BC Decker, Toronto, Ont. 77-84, 1990.

2. Welsh CH. Chapter 9 on Mechanical ventilation in Critical Care Secrets, Philadelphia. Hanley & Belfus 1992.

3. Welsh CH. Chapter on Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Care Secrets, second edition 1998.

4. Welsh CH. Chapter on Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Care Secrets, third edition, submitted December 2001.

5. Reeves JT, Welsh CH, Wagner PD. The heart and lungs at extreme altitude. Thorax 49:631-633, 1994.

6. Redington J, Welsh CH. Community acquired pneumonia, diagnosis and management. Primary Care Case Reviews 2:43-58, 1999.

7. Welsh CH. Web-based teaching module on Pulmonary Embolism diagnosis and treatment developed with Teaching in Technology Grant.

8. Welsh CH. “Respiratory therapy techniques” chapter in Kelley’s Textbook of Internal Medicine, Fourth Edition. H David Humes, Editor-in-Chief. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. 2000.

9. Welsh CH. Coagulation and Fibrinolytic factors in Pulmonary Hypertension. Chapter 20 in Interactions of Blood and the Pulmonary Circulation edited by Weir EK, Reeve HL, and Reeves JT. 2002. Futura Publishing Company Armonk NY. pages 339-360.

10. Chan E, Morales D, Welsh CH, McDermott M, Schwarz MI. Calcium deposition with or without bone formation in the lung. State of the Art. Am J Resp Crit Care Med, 2002: 165: 1654-1669.

11. Welsh CH. Computerized test chapter entitled “Pulmonary embolism treatment” for Treatment Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine, publisher , Inc., December 2001.

12. Editor Carolyn H. Welsh MD and Michael Hanley MD of a Lange series book entitled Current Pulmonary Diagnosis and Treatment. publication October 20, 2003. McGraw Hill.

13. Welsh CH. Chapter entitled Medical Conditions and Sleep, for Current Pulmonary Diagnosis and Treatment, editors Hanley and Welsh 2003.

14. Welsh CH. Chapter entitled Narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome, periodic limb movements, for Current Pulmonary Diagnosis and Treatment, editors Hanley and Welsh 2003.

15. Fessler M, Welsh CH. Mechanical Ventilation, Chapter for textbook. Current Pulmonary Diagnosis and Treatment, editors Hanley and Welsh 2003.

16. Welsh CH, R Fugit. Medications that cause insomnia. Chapter 13 for Encyclopedia of Sleep Medicine, ed. Teofilo Lee-Chiong. October 2005.

17. Welsh CH. Chapter on Mechanical Ventilation in Critical Care Secrets, fourth edition, July 2007.

18. Welsh CH. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and COPD. Chapter in Casebook of Sleep Medicine 2008. American Academy Sleep Medicine. Westchester, IL.

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