Dr. Ralph M Schapira MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
5000 W National Ave Cc-111 Milwaukee WI, 53295Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Ralph Schapira practices Pulmonology in Milwaukee, WI. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Schapira manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Telemedicine.
- Increasing airway pressures can promote transvascular edema reabsorption.
- Response of the lungs to aspiration.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome from blastomycosis: a case report.
- Vocal cord closure pressure during volitional swallow and other voluntary tasks.
- L-Arginine uptake and metabolism following in vivo silica exposure in rat lungs.
- The challenge of residents with deficiencies of clinical performance of professionalism.
- Effects of ozone on lung function and lung diseases.
- The effect of inhaled nitric oxide and oxygen on the hydroxylation of salicylate in rat lungs.
- Catheter-related infections and associated septicemia.
- Thirty years to the day.
- A patient with HIV, dyspnea, and multiple pulmonary nodules: pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma.
- Pulmonary telemedicine--a model to access the subspecialist services in underserved rural areas.
- An evaluation of patient-physician communication style during telemedicine consultations.
- Patient satisfaction with physician-patient communication during telemedicine.
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