Dr. Wahidi is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He received his MD degree from Damascus University and did his internship and residency in internal medicine at Indiana University; where he also served as a chief medical resident. He completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Duke University Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in interventional pulmonology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wahidi is the director of the Interventional Pulmonology program at Duke University Medical Center. This program offers consultative and procedural services to patients with lung cancer, benign airway disorders, and pleural diseases including advanced flexible and rigid bronchoscopies, pleuroscopy, indwelling pleural catheters, and percutaneous tracheostomy.

Dr. Wahidi is currently involved in research on the education of bronchoscopy and on the use of medical devices in the treatment of emphysema and asthma. He serves on the steering committee of the interventional/chest diagnostic network of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and on the board of directors of the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. He is also the current ACCP governor for North Carolina.

Selected recent publications:

• Reddy AJ, Joseph A. Govert JA, Sporn TA, and Wahidi MM. Broncholith Removal Using Cryotherapy During Flexible Bronchoscopy: A Case Report. Chest, 2007; 132: 1661-3
• Wahidi MM, Govert JA, Goudar RK, Gould MK, and McCrory DC. Evidence for the Treatment of Patients With Pulmonary Nodules: When Is It Lung Cancer?: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (2nd Edition). Chest, 2007; 132: 94S - 107S.
• Wahidi, MM, Herth F, and Ernst A. State of the Art: Interventional Pulmonology. Chest, 2007; 131: 261-274.
• Ernst A, Eberhardt R, Wahidi M, Becker HD, and Herth F. Effect of routine clopidogrel use on bleeding complications after transbronchial biopsy in humans. Chest 2006;129:734-737
• Wahidi, MM, Garland, R, Feller-Kopman, D, Herth, F, Becker, HD and Ernst, A. Effect of Clopidogrel with and without Aspirin on Bleeding Following Transbronchial Lung Biopsy. Chest 2005;127:961-964
• Wahidi, MM and Ernst A. The role of the interventional pulmonologist in the ICU. J of Intensive Care Medicine 2005; 20:141-146
• Wahidi, MM and Ernst A. The role of bronchoscopy in the management of lung transplant recipients. The Respiratory Care Clinics of North America 2004;10(4):549-562