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Pravachan Hegde, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Pulmonology - Fresno
School	School of Medicine
Address	Location Required, #001 Varies CA 00000
Phone	559-499-6500
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Biography

Education and Training

JSS Medical College, Mysore, India	MBBS	2004	Medicine and Surgery
JSS Hospital, Mysore, India	Preliminary Internship	2004	Medicine
Victoria Hospital & West Cumberland Hospital, United Kingdom	Residency	2007	Medicine
Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin	Residency	2011	Internal Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Fellowship	2014	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Montreal , Montreal, Canada	Fellowship	2015	Advanced Interventional Thoracic Endoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology

Overview

Pravachan Hegde, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Director, Interventional Pulmonology, Advanced Interventional Thoracic Endoscopy

Pravachan Hegde, M.D. is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and with the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.

He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation and finished his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin. He subsequently went on to finish another advanced fellowship in Advanced Interventional Thoracic Endoscopy/Interventional Pulmonology at University of Montreal.

Dr. Hegde has advanced training in Comprehensive Thoracic Endoscopy Techniques and Interventional Pulmonology from the division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Montreal. Dr. Hegde is also interested in clinical research related to lung cancer, advanced devices, and Interventional Pulmonology.

Proficiency and expertise in advanced interventional procedures include:
•Convex EBUS / Radial EBUS (Mini-Probe)
•Convex EUS / Radial EUS
•Tracheo-Bronchial Stenting
•Rigid Bronchoscopy with therapeutic intervention
•Endoscopic treatment of tracheo-esophageal fistulae and broncho-pleural fistulae
•Endobronchial Tumor Ablation, Resection
•Airway / Esophageal / Pyloric Dilation
•EBUS Mini-Probe biopsy and targeting of peripheral pulmonary nodules
•Pleuroscopy
•Cyberknife Fiducial Insertion
•Chest Ultrasound, Ultrasound-guided pleural procedures
•Esophageal Stenting
•Rigid Esophagoscopy

Dr. Hegde is fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, and working French. His hobbies include table tennis, soccer, and cricket.

Bibliographic

Publications

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Interventional Pulmonology and Esophagus: Combined Endobronchial Ultrasound and Endoscopic Ultrasound for Mediastinal Staging. Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 08; 43(4):583-592. Khalid S, Hegde P. PMID: 35576975.

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Cri Critical Care Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Response to the author on "Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy (PUG) overview updates" in response to our review on "An overview of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in the intensive care unit (ICU)''. J Thorac Dis. 2022 Feb; 14(2):588-590. Hegde P, Chintanaboina J. PMID: 35280468; PMCID: PMC8902114.

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An overview of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in the intensive care unit. J Thorac Dis. 2021 Aug; 13(8):5277-5296. Wei M, Ho E, Hegde P. PMID: 34527366; PMCID: PMC8411178.

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Bronchopleural Fistula Closure With Amplatzer Device: Our Case and Reviewing a Decade of Experience. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2020 Jul; 27(3):e41-e45. Ho E, Srivastava R, Hegde P. PMID: 32569079.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Combined Endosonographic Mediastinal Lymph Node Staging in Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography Node-Negative Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in High-Risk Patients. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020; 32(1):162-168. Hegde P, Molina JC, Thivierge-Southidara M, Jain RV, Gowda A, Ferraro P, Liberman M. PMID: 31325576.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields:
Car Cardiology Gen General Surgery Pul Pulmonary Medicine Vas Vascular Diseases
Translation:Humans
Transesophageal approach to lung, adrenal biopsy and fiducial placement using endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS): An interventional pulmonology experience. Initial experience of the UCSF-FRETOC (fresno tracheobronchial & oesophageal center) study group. Respir Med. 2018 08; 141:52-55. Pais FM, Shah RA, Vempilly JJ, Gullapalli S, Upadhyay D, Peterson M, Liberman M, Hegde P. PMID: 30053972.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Combined Endosonography Reduces Time to Diagnose Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2018 Apr; 25(2):152-155. Shah RA, Vempilly JJ, Noor Ul Husnain SM, Hegde P. PMID: 29346251.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields:
Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Endobronchial and Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Transvascular Biopsy of Mediastinal, Hilar, and Lung Lesions. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Mar; 103(3):951-955. Kazakov J, Hegde P, Tahiri M, Thiffault V, Ferraro P, Liberman M. PMID: 27865476.

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Gen General Surgery Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Mediastinal Staging: Endosonographic Ultrasound Lymph Node Biopsy or Mediastinoscopy. Thorac Surg Clin. 2016 Aug; 26(3):243-9. Hegde PV, Liberman M. PMID: 27427519.

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Gen General Surgery Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Humans
Pulmonary Artery Sealing With an Ultrasonic Energy Device in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy: An Animal Survival Study. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Oct; 102(4):1088-94. Goudie E, Khereba M, Tahiri M, Hegde P, Thiffault V, Hadjeres R, Berdugo J, Ferraro P, Liberman M. PMID: 27345091.

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Gen General Surgery Pul Pulmonary Medicine
Translation:Animals
Echo-endoscopic lymph node staging in lung cancer: an endoscopic alternative. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2015; 15(9):1063-73. Hegde P, Liberman M. PMID: 26165589.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Neo Neoplasms The Therapeutics
Translation:Humans