CTS Awards

Angela Wang is a prominent figure in the field of pulmonary medicine, currently serving as the Medical Director of Outpatient Pulmonary at UC San Diego Health. With a strong commitment to advancing healthcare and promoting gender equity within the medical community, Dr. Wang has made significant contributions through her leadership roles and clinical expertise.

Dr. Wang earned her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. Following her medical education, she pursued specialized training in pulmonary medicine at the University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine, where she honed her skills and knowledge in treating respiratory conditions.

Dr. Wang as a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) served on the Board and was a Chairperson. Her involvement with ATS reflects her dedication to advancing research, education, and advocacy in thoracic medicine. In addition to her national roles, Dr. Wang has made significant contributions at the state level through her work with the California Thoracic Society as a past president. She successfully designed and launched an annual Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Symposium aimed at educating healthcare professionals about best practices in managing this prevalent condition.

UC San Diego Health

At UC San Diego Health, Dr. Wang holds dual roles as both the Medical Director of Outpatient Pulmonary and Chair of the Department of Medicine Gender Equity Committee. In her capacity as Medical Director, she oversees outpatient services for patients with pulmonary diseases, ensuring high-quality care and innovative treatment options are available to those suffering from respiratory ailments.

Scripps Clinic

Before her current role at UC San Diego Health, Dr. Wang worked as a pulmonologist at Scripps Clinic, where she provided comprehensive care for patients with various pulmonary disorders.

Dr. Gaurav Singh is a Staff Physician in the Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, where he serves as the pulmonary/critical lead for the virtual integrated services network (VISN). He is also an affiliated Clinical Assistant Professor of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. He completed his undergraduate studies in molecular and cellular biology at UC Berkeley, where he also completed a Master of Public Health (MPH). He received his medical degree from UC San Francisco. He completed residency training in internal medicine, followed by pulmonary and critical care fellowship as well as sleep medicine fellowship all at Stanford University. Dr. Singh chaired the annual California Thoracic Society (CTS) conference for three years, and he is currently serving on the executive committee. His clinical, research, and academic interests include chronic obstructive airways disease (COPD), chronic respiratory failure, and non-invasive ventilation.

Susan Murin, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A., is the Interim Dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine and leads the nationally ranked medical school in its education, research, clinical care, and community partnership missions. Dr. Murin most recently served as Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and Executive Director of the UC Davis Medical Group. She previously served as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Executive Vice Chair of Internal Medicine, and Chief of the Medical Staff at UC Davis.

Her past national service has included membership on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine RRC, Chair of the Pulmonary Medicine test-writing committee for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), member of the ABIM Pulmonary Board, and Chair of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors. She has a long history of service to professional societies in various roles and recently served as Deputy Editor of CHEST, a leading respiratory journal.

Dr. Murin received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and completed her medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. She did her residency in Internal Medicine at NYU-Bellevue and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University/Yale-New Haven Hospital. She subsequently received an M.Sc. in Clinical Epidemiology (with a concentration in Clinical Effectiveness) from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an M.B.A. from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.

Immediately after her clinical training, Dr. Murin served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps and has subsequently had a long tenure at UC Davis while also serving veterans through a joint appointment at the Mather Veterans Administration facility. She has been repeatedly named to Best Doctors lists regionally and nationally, practicing and teaching at UC Davis and the Sacramento VA Hospital.

Dr. Murin's research has focused on the effects of smoking on the natural history of breast cancer and the epidemiology of venous thromboembolism

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Dr. Tisha Wang received her MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, graduating with highest honors. She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at UCLA before joining the faculty at UCLA in 2008. Dr. Wang is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA, where she serves as the Senior Executive Clinical Vice Chair for the Department of Medicine (DOM). She is board-certified in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. In addition to providing clinical care in the ICU and clinic, Dr. Wang was the UCLA pulmonary/critical care fellowship program director for 10 years until 2021 and also served as Clinical Chief of the UCLA Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, Allergy and Immunology until 2023. She was the co-director of the pandemic response team at UCLA and subsequently catalyzed the formation of the UCLA DOM Wellness Committee in 2021 to focus on physician well-being after noticing the effects of the pandemic on an already burned-out workforce.

In her academic career, Dr. Wang has had the privilege of educating and mentoring hundreds of residents, fellows, staff, and junior/mid-level faculty. She has been nominated for multiple teaching awards both locally and nationally and was awarded the UCLA Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award in 2019. In 2020, she was honored as the recipient of the UCLA Sherman Melinkoff Award, which recognizes the “finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education” and is considered the highest honor of the UCLA DGSOM. Recently Dr. Wang was chosen as the 2022 California Thoracic Society “Woman of the Year” and in April of this year, she graduated from the prestigious Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program.

In addition to her clinical work and leadership responsibilities, Dr. Wang conducts research on rare lung disease with a focus on pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). She is the Clinical Director and Vice President of the patient-based PAP Foundation. Dr. Wang has served as Chair of the Education Committee for the American Thoracic Society since 2020 with a seat on the ATS Board of Directors and is the current President of the California Thoracic Society. In addition to championing the well-being of physicians, her greatest joys in medicine have been focused on advocacy for women in medicine, medical educators, and patients with rare lung disease.

Dr. Shazia Jamil is the Head of Academic Affairs in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Scripps Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine where she is Co-Director of Pulmonary Skills session for second year medical students. She received her medical degree from Aga Khan Medical School in Pakistan, Internal Medicine residency at University of Southern California (USC), Pulmonary, Critical Care fellowship, Molecular and Cell Biology post-doctoral fellowship and Sleep Medicine training all at University of California San Diego and post-doctoral fellowship training at Harvard school of Public Health.

Dr Jamil was named California Thoracic Society (CTS) Outstanding Clinician in 2021 and American Thoracic Society (ATS) Outstanding Clinician in 2022, an award given to one recipient every year. At that time, she became the 4th woman overall and 1st Asian-American physician to receive this prestigious recognition from ATS. She is a recipient of multiple teaching and research awards from USC, Scripps Clinic, University of California, Naval Academic Medical Center and American Lung Association.

She has developed several ICU protocols for management of complex liver, transplant, COVID-19 patients and multidisciplinary measures to improve sleep in ICU and founded Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders Clinic, one of its first kind in California. Her clinical excellence is matched by her zeal for advancing education. Over the last 15 years, she has worked assiduously to develop clinical programs, curricula, CME conferences and hands-on-skills sessions at the local, regional and national level. She founded a free CME San Diego Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Case Conference. She is co-Editor of ATS Critical Care Review Book, member of ATS Scholar editorial board and Co-Editor of Sleep research topics at Frontiers in Neurology and Chairs Education Committee at CTS. At ATS Education Committee, she served as Chair of Sleep Core Curriculum, Co-founded/Chaired Rapid Response Document Series (regularly publishes in AJRCCM) which addresses emerging lung health issues to provide rapid information (re-named as Late Breaking Education Committee in 2024 which she is Chair of). Her group published one of the first public health and clinical documents in the U.S. on SARS Co-V2 and COVID-19. She currently Co-Chairs ATS Fellows Track Symposium which trains > 200 Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine fellows across the U.S. in intensive 2 day course comprising of didactics and hands-on-session every year during ATS Intl’ conference and is elected as Treasurer of CTS.

Dr. Steven Hays, a pulmonologist, is medical director of the UCSF Lung Transplant Program, which is known for accepting patients with complex conditions while maintaining superior survival rates. His expertise is in caring for patients with end-stage lung disease who proceed through the lung transplant process. He treats conditions that include cystic fibrosis, emphysema associated with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and interstitial lung disease.

In research, Hays focuses on studying how airway remodeling occurs in the transplanted lung.

Hays earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCSF. He also completed a lung transplant fellowship at Stanford Health Care.

Tisha S. Wang MD, ATSF

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Senior Executive Clinical Vice Chair of the UCLA Department of Medicine; Clinical Director of PAP Foundation.

Dr. Tisha Wang received her MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, graduating with highest honors. She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at UCLA before joining the faculty at UCLA in 2008. Dr. Wang is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA, where she serves as the Senior Executive Clinical Vice Chair for the Department of Medicine (DOM). She is board-certified in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. In addition to providing clinical care in the ICU and clinic, Dr. Wang was the UCLA pulmonary/critical care fellowship program director for 10 years until 2021 and also served as Clinical Chief of the UCLA Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, Allergy and Immunology until 2023. She was the co-director of the pandemic response team at UCLA and subsequently catalyzed the formation of the UCLA DOM Wellness Committee in 2021 to focus on physician well-being after noticing the effects of the pandemic on an already burned-out workforce.

In her academic career, Dr. Wang has had the privilege of educating and mentoring hundreds of residents, fellows, staff, and junior/mid-level faculty. She has been nominated for multiple teaching awards both locally and nationally and was awarded the UCLA Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award in 2019. In 2020, she was honored as the recipient of the UCLA Sherman Melinkoff Award, which recognizes the “finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education” and is considered the highest honor of the UCLA DGSOM. Recently Dr. Wang was chosen as the 2022 California Thoracic Society “Woman of the Year” and in April of this year, she graduated from the prestigious Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program.

In addition to her clinical work and leadership responsibilities, Dr. Wang conducts research on rare lung disease with a focus on pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). She is the Clinical Director and Vice President of the patient-based PAP Foundation. Dr. Wang has served as Chair of the Education Committee for the American Thoracic Society since 2020 with a seat on the ATS Board of Directors and is the current President of the California Thoracic Society. In addition to championing the well-being of physicians, her greatest joys in medicine have been focused on advocacy for women in medicine, medical educators, and patients with rare lung disease.

Dr. Shazia Jamil is the Head of Academic Affairs in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Scripps Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine where she is Co-Director of Pulmonary Skills session for second year medical students. She received her medical degree from Aga Khan Medical School in Pakistan, Internal Medicine residency at University of Southern California (USC), Pulmonary, Critical Care fellowship, Molecular and Cell Biology post-doctoral fellowship and Sleep Medicine training all at University of California San Diego and post-doctoral fellowship training at Harvard school of Public Health.

Dr Jamil was named California Thoracic Society (CTS) Outstanding Clinician in 2021 and American Thoracic Society (ATS) Outstanding Clinician in 2022, an award given to one recipient every year. At that time, she became the 4th woman overall and 1st Asian-American physician to receive this prestigious recognition from ATS. She is a recipient of multiple teaching and research awards from USC, Scripps Clinic, University of California, Naval Academic Medical Center and American Lung Association.

She has developed several ICU protocols for management of complex liver, transplant, COVID-19 patients and multidisciplinary measures to improve sleep in ICU and founded Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders Clinic, one of its first kind in California. Her clinical excellence is matched by her zeal for advancing education. Over the last 15 years, she has worked assiduously to develop clinical programs, curricula, CME conferences and hands-on-skills sessions at the local, regional and national level. She founded a free CME San Diego Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Case Conference. She is co-Editor of ATS Critical Care Review Book, member of ATS Scholar editorial board and Co-Editor of Sleep research topics at Frontiers in Neurology and Chairs Education Committee at CTS. At ATS Education Committee, she served as Chair of Sleep Core Curriculum, Co-founded/Chaired Rapid Response Document Series (regularly publishes in AJRCCM) which addresses emerging lung health issues to provide rapid information (re-named as Late Breaking Education Committee in 2024 which she is Chair of). Her group published one of the first public health and clinical documents in the U.S. on SARS Co-V2 and COVID-19. She currently Co-Chairs ATS Fellows Track Symposium which trains > 200 Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine fellows across the U.S. in intensive 2 day course comprising of didactics and hands-on-session every year during ATS Intl’ conference and is elected as Treasurer of CTS.