MerrillRalphNisamMDFACP,FCCP
Pulmonology • Larkspur, CACritical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
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Office
PRIMA MEDICAL GROUP, 1100 Larkspur Landing Cir
suite 10
Larkspur, CA 94939Phone+1 415-924-1214Fax+1 415-924-1375- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Merrill Nisam is a pulmonologist in Larkspur, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including MarinHealth Medical Center, Novato Community Hospital, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Alta Bates Campus, Mills-Peninsula Health Services, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit Campus, Sutter Delta Medical Center, and San Leandro Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and has been in practice 37 years. He specializes in critical care medicine and pleural disease and is experienced in critical care medicine.
Education & Training
California Pacific Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1986 - 1987- California Pacific Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1985 - 1986
University of California Davis HealthResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1984
University of California, Davis, School of MedicineClass of 1980
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1981 - 2025
HI State Medical License 2004 - 2014- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
- Top MD Consumers Checkbook
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Painless aortic dissection presenting with multisystem organ failure and owl's eyes sign of the spinal cord.Raymond Lam, Sara L. Swenson, Thomas J. Nuckton, Merrill Nisam> ;BMJ Case Reports. 2017 Dec 13
- 13 citationsCyclic AMP and cyclic GMP in canine peripheral lung: regulation in vivo.David B. Barnett, Sarah E. Chesrown, Arthur F. Zbinden, Merrill Nisam, Baron R. Reed, Henry R. Bourne, Kenneth L. Melmon, Warren M. Gold> ;The American Review of Respiratory Disease. 2015 May 14
- 11 citationsEffects of hyperventilation on conjunctival oxygen tension in humans.Merrill Nisam, Timothy E Albertson, Edward A. Panacek, William F. Rutherford, Charles J. Fisher> ;Critical Care Medicine. 1986 Jan 1
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Authored Content
- Painless Aortic dissection presenting with multi system organ failure and owls Eye sign of the spinal cordDecember 2017
Hospital Affiliations
MarinHealth Medical CenterGreenbrae, California
Novato Community HospitalNovato, California
Mills-Peninsula Medical CenterBurlingame, California
Sutter Delta Medical CenterAntioch, California
San Leandro HospitalSan Leandro, California
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