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  • Dr. Elias Kakish MD

    Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.

Education and Training:

  • Pulmonary medicine/critical care medicine/sleep medicine fellowship at University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 2006–2009.
  • Chief resident/internal medicine residency program at the Chicago medical school, Rosalind Franklin University. North Chicago, IL, USA 2005–2006
  • Internal medicine residency, the Chicago medical school, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA 2002–2005
  • Internship at the Ministry of health. Jordan 2000-2001
  • Medical bachelor and bachelor for surgery. Medical school at the University of Jordan. 1994–2000.

 

Current specialties and Certifications:

  • American board of pulmonary medicine.
  • American board of critical care medicine.
  • American board of Sleep medicine.
  • Jordanian medical council certificate of pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine.
  • Certificate of fellowship, training and completion of training in Pulmonary and critical care medicine and sleep medicine from the University of Kentucky.
  • Certificate of completion of internal medicine residency from the Chicago medical school.

 

Awards and Nominations:

  • The Castle Connolly Top Doctors Award/ AZ TOP DOCS-2025. Only 7% of the United States doctors received this award.
  • Alpha Omega alpha/The only national honor medical Society in the United States. I was selected to receive this award during my Chief resident year at the Chicago medical school.
  • Professionalism award. I received this award during my last year of internal medicine residency at the
  • Chicago medical school.

 

Work Experience

  • Consultant physician in pulmonary and critical care and sleep medicine at Northwest Medical Center in Tucson, AZ, USA.
  • Consultant physician in pulmonary and critical care and sleep medicine at Elkhart General Hospital and the Elkhart clinic, Elkhart, IN, USA.

 

Teaching Experience

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of medicine at Burrell College of osteopathic medicine, Tucson Branch, AZ. 2015-2025
  • Core faculty and pulmonary medicine course developer for the internal medicine residency program at Northwest Medical Center.

 

Diseases and Conditions that I Commonly Treat

  • Obstructive pulmonary diseases such as asthma and COPD.
  • Restrictive and interstitial lung diseases.
  • Evaluation and management of chronic cough and shortness of breath.
  • Lung nodules and tumors
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep disorders.
  • Management of patient is in the intensive care unit.

 

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