Recent Faculty Publications

Our research frequently appears in leading academic journals and reflects the wide scope of interests encompassed by our division.

Ali El Solh, MD, MPH

Shamim-Uzzaman QA, Zeidler MR, Boudreau EA, Chowdhuri S, Donovan LM, El-Solh A, Freire AX, Gottlieb DJ, Jindal RD, Hesselbacher S, Koo B, Kuna S, Lim MM, Mina S, Stepnowsky C, Tamanna S, Tobias L, Ulmer C, Yaggi K, Surani S, Atwood C, Sarmiento K, Ioachimescu OC. (2025) Sleep research, quality and implementation priorities in the Veterans Health Administration: a white paper. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (May).
El-Solh AA, Lawson Y, Martinson A, Wilding G. (2025) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Alone or in Combination with Eszopiclone in Comorbid Insomnia and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Trial. The Psychiatric quarterly (Apr).
El-Solh AA, Martinson A, Attai P, Homish G, Aibangbee K, Gould E. (2025) Determinants of treatment response to cognitive behavioral therapy in veterans presenting with comorbid insomnia and sleep apnea. Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung (Mar), 29(2): 129. doi:10.1007/s11325-025-03298-z

Lee YC, Fadell F, Chang KY, Baek J, Rahman M, Kickel C, El-Solh A. (2025) Health Care Disparities and Critical Illnesses-Related Mortality in the United States. Critical care medicine (Feb).
Fadell F, Saliba R, El-Solh AA. (2024) Bacteriology of Aspiration Pneumonia: The Lung Microbiome and the Changing Microbial Etiology. Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine (Nov).
Awad MKA, Elsahhar A, Alwakeel M, Awad R, Gomaa N, Salem AMA, Ramadan M, Elsahhar G, Abdelbaky RER, Fadell F. (2024) Admission neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio to predict mortality in burn patients: a meta-analysis. Intensive care medicine experimental (Oct), 12(1): 86. doi:10.1186/s40635-024-00668-x

Sawicki GS, Goodman A, Bacon C, Collins L, Greenberg J, Duncan C, Frederick C, Luebbert S, Mazuera S, Polineni D, Stark LL, George C, Riekert KA. (2023) Partners in research: The success with therapies research consortium and the CF community unite to improve self-management. Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society (Sep), 22(5): 830-835.
Goetz DM, Frederick CK, Perez G, Borowitz D. (2023) Airway clearance after highly effective CFTR modulators: Normalizing life and reducing treatment burden. Pediatric pulmonology (Aug), 58(8): 2375-2380.
Schwarzenberg SJ, Vu PT, Skalland M, Hoffman LR, Pope C, Gelfond D, Narkewicz MR, Nichols DP, Heltshe SL, Donaldson SH, Frederick CA, Kelly A, Pittman JE, Ratjen F, Rosenfeld M, Sagel SD, Solomon GM, Stalvey MS, Clancy JP, Rowe SM, Freedman SD, . (2023) Elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor and gastrointestinal outcomes in cystic fibrosis: Report of promise-GI.

Ivanick NM, Kunadharaju R, Bhura S, Mengiste H, Saeed M, Saradna A, Grover H, Kalvapudi S, Yendamuri S, Yu H, Shafirstein G, Reid M. (2024) Epidemiology and Survival of Malignant Central Airway Obstruction in Lung Cancer Identified on Cross-Sectional Imaging. Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology (Jul), 31(3).
Kalvapudi S, Zubair HM, Kunadharaju R, Bhura S, Mengiste H, Saeed M, Saradna A, Grover H, Shafirstein G, Yendamuri S, Ivanick NM. (2024) Correlation of Bronchoscopy and CT in Characterizing Malignant Central Airway Obstruction. Cancers (Mar), 16(7). doi:10.3390/cancers16071258

Celli BR, Fabbri LM, Aaron SD, Agusti A, Brook RD, Criner GJ, Franssen FME, Humbert M, Hurst JR, Montes de Oca M, Pantoni L, Papi A, Rodriguez-Roisin R, Sethi S, Stolz D, Torres A, Vogelmeier CF, Wedzicha JA. (2023) Differential Diagnosis of Suspected Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations in the Acute Care Setting: Best Practice. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (May), 207(9): 1134-1144.