KunalParimalPatelMD

Pulmonology • Chapel Hill, NC

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Office
130 Mason Farm Rd
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Education & Training

University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2014 - 2017
Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2011 - 2014
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2011

Certifications & Licensure

NC State Medical License 2018 - 2024
PA State Medical License 2014 - 2018
MA State Medical License 2013 - 2016
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Advocating for Advocacy in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
Anne S Mainardi, Kunal P Patel, Humberto Choi, Sharron J Crowder, Joe K Gerald> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2023 Mar 1
Response.
William T Atchley, Carolina Alvarez, Shruti Saxena-Beem, Todd A Schwartz, Rumey C Ishizawar, Kunal P Patel, M Patricia Rivera> ;Chest. 2022 Mar 1
57 citations
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Pneumonitis in Lung Cancer: Real-World Incidence, Risk Factors, and Management Practices Across Six Health Care Centers in North Ca...
William T. Atchley, Carolina Alvarez, Shruti Saxena-Beem, Todd A. Schwartz, Rumey C. Ishizawar, Kunal Patel, M. Patricia Rivera> ;Chest. 2021 Aug 1
764 citations
TOX transcriptionally and epigenetically programs CD8 + T cell exhaustion
Omar Khan, Josephine R. Giles, Sierra McDonald, Sasikanth Manne, Shin Foong Ngiow, Kunal P. Patel, Michael T. Werner, Alexander C. Huang, Katherine A. Alexander, Jenni...> ;Nature. 2019 Jun 17
INTERACTIVE MEDICAL CASE. A Woman with Dyspnea and Altered Mental Status.
Kunal P. Patel, Anand Vaidya, Christopher J. Gibson, Jennifer L. Lyons> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 Jun 8
37 citations
Monitoring Ventilation with Capnography
Rafael Ortega, Christopher W. Connor, Sora Kim, Robin Djang, Kunal P. Patel> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2012 Nov 7
Dynamin- and lipid raft-dependent entry of decay-accelerating factor (DAF)-binding and non-DAF-binding coxsackieviruses into nonpolarized cells.
Patel, K.P., Coyne, C.B., Bergelson, J.M.> ;J Virol. 2009-11-01
Functional unresponsiveness and replicative senescence of myeloid leukemia antigen-specific CD8+ T cells after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Beatty, G.L., Smith, J.S., Reshef, R., Patel, K.P., Colligon, T.A., Vance, B.A., Frey, N.V., Johnson, F.B., Porter, D.L., Vonderheide, R.H.> ;Clin Cancer Res. 2009-08-01
Receptors identified for hand, foot and mouth virus.
Patel, K.P., Bergelson, J.M.> ;Nat Med. 2009-07-01
Telomerase as a tumor-associated antigen for cancer immunotherapy.
Patel, K. P.,Vonderheide, R. H.> ;Cytotechnology. 2008 Nov 13
Calcium signals and calpain-dependent necrosis are essential for release of coxsackievirus B from polarized intestinal epithelial cells.
Bozym, R. A., Patel, K., White, C., Cheung, K. H., Bergelson, J. M., Morosky, S. A., Coyne, C. B.> ;Mol Biol Cell. 2011 Sep
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Hospital Affiliations

University of North Carolina HospitalsChapel Hill, North Carolina