Dr. Thomas Robert Gildea, MD

Thomas Robert Gildea, MD, FCCP, was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2003 in the Advanced Lung Disease Section of the Department of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. As a Chief Resident in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine residency, he went to Russia in a faculty exchange program to lecture and demonstrate American medical team structure and the basics of clinical epidemiology. He has advanced training in interventional and advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, which was part of his fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests span the realm of advanced lung diseases, including lung volume reduction, lung transplantation, pulmonary arterial hypertension and are most focused on advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy. Dr. Gildea was the first physician in North America to perform electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy. He was given an Innovator A