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Solmaz Ehteshami Afshar
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Ehteshami Afshar is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. She earned her MSc from the University of British Columbia, specializing in health economics, before completing her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. She furthered her training at Stanford University, pursuing fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as well as Sleep Medicine. Dr. Ehteshami Afshar’s clinical expertise lies in the management of complex pulmonary conditions and sleep-related respiratory disorders, with a particular focus on home mechanical ventilation.
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Anna Chen Arroyo
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioDr. Arroyo specializes in the treatment of allergic conditions including drug allergy and asthma. She has a special interest in understanding health and healthcare disparities in allergic diseases and how allergies change over a person's lifetime.
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Umang Barvalia
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
BioUmang Barvalia earned his M.B,B.S degree from Medical College, Baroda in Vadodara, India. He completed his internal medicine residency at Marshfield Clinic- St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, WI where he also served as a chief resident. He was a chief fellow during his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He is currently working as a Board Certified Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), San Jose. – a county hospital that serves as a teaching site for Stanford residents and fellows. He holds an appointment of Clinical Associate Professor (affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine due to his involvement in training of pulmonary and critical medicine fellows.
His professional interests include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and medical education. He is certified in Critical Care Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and teaches residents and fellows POCUS in the ICU and on the pulmonary consult service.
As a lung specialist, he cares for patients with chronic lung conditions like asthma, pulmonary hypertension, COPD, Interstitial lung disease, diseases involving the pleura and lung cancer. He also established the Endobronchial Ultrasound Program at SCMVC that helps in the diagnosis and care of lung cancer patients.
As a full time faculty in the intensive care unit, he treats patients with a variety of conditions including sepsis, liver failure, respiratory failure, post cardiac arrest and stroke. Along with his peers, he introduced prone position ventilation at SCVMC that helps in management of patients with ARDS.
