Associate Professor, Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pulmonology
Dr. Charles W. Atwood Jr., MD
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Charles Atwood is an expert in the field of Pulmonology. He researched medicine at University of Alabama Medical Center. University of Alabama Medical Center has a rank of 37 in research and a 17 in primary care He received 1 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Doctor Charles W. Atwood Jr., MD is a published physician as well. He has 22 publications published. The latest was: Positive pressure therapy. Charles Atwood accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Evaluation of a single-channel portable monitor for the diagnosis of Obstructive sleep apnea.
- Noninferiority of functional outcome in ambulatory management of Obstructive sleep apnea.
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy and Obstructive sleep-related breathing disorder in patients with congestive heart failure.
- The coordination of breathing and swallowing in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- The coordination of breathing and swallowing in Parkinson's Disease.
- Analysis of interaction of acute atrial overdrive pacing with Sleep-related breathing disorder.
- Sleep-related hypoventilation: the evolving role of leptin.
- Periodic limb movement disorder: an unusual mechanism of twiddling and potential benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy.
- Lung volume effects on pharyngeal swallowing physiology.
- Equal effectiveness of older traditional antibiotics and newer broad-spectrum antibiotics in treating patients with acute exacerbations of Chronic bronchitis.
- New strategy improves lung cancer management.
- Prevalence and predictors of nocturia in Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome--a retrospective study.
- Cerebral oxygenation during Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Pulmonary artery hypertension and sleep-disordered breathing: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
- Split-night studies for the diagnosis and treatment of Sleep-disordered breathing.
- CPAP therapy via oronasal mask for Obstructive sleep apnea.
- Feasibility of automated detection of advanced Sleep disordered breathing utilizing an implantable pacemaker ventilation sensor.
- Positive pressure therapy.
- Why the upper airway is not like a gall bladder.
- Short-course empiric antibiotic therapy for patients with Pulmonary infiltrates in the intensive care unit. A proposed solution for indiscriminate antibiotic prescript...
- Progress toward a clearer understanding of the role of bilevel positive airway pressure therapy for Obstructive sleep apnea.
Schools
University of Alabama At Birmingham
University Ala Hospital
University Of Pittsburgh
Procedures Preformed
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
Conditions Treated
- Asbestosis
- Asthma
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Pleural Effusion
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Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonology
- Sleep Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- CHAMPVA
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- HealthSmart
- Community Blue PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Mutual of Omaha
- National Elevator
- Tricare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- UPMC PPO
- UPMC Health Plan
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
University of Alabama Medical Center -
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
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