Dr. Michael Alan Jantz MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1600 SW Archer Rd Gainesville FL, 32610About
Dr. Michael Jantz practices Pulmonology in Gainesville, FL. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Jantz 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
Univ of Wa Sch of Med, Seattle Wa 1989
University of Washington School of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Corticosteroids in acute respiratory failure.
- Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and fibroproliferative acute respiratory distress syndrome: similar disease, similar treatment?
- Tracheobronchial amyloidosis: a case report of successful treatment with external beam radiation therapy.
- Primum non nocere and malignant pleural effusions.
- The old and the new of sedation for bronchoscopy.
- Clinical experience with a new removable tracheobronchial stent in the management of airway complications after lung transplantation.
- Erlotinib or gefitinib for non-small-cell lung cancer.
- How I manage pulmonary nodular lesions and nodular infiltrates in patients with hematologic malignancies or undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation.
- Successful use of bronchoscopic lung insufflation to treat left lung atelectasis.
- It's time for a STAT assessment of bronchoscopy skills: the endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy (EBUS)-STAT and EBUS-transbronchial needle aspiration skill evaluation.
- Reply: the impact of the introduction of an endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration program on teaching of conventional bronchoscopic sampling techniques in an academic institution.
- Treatment of alveolar-pleural fistula with endobronchial application of synthetic hydrogel.
- Restoration of Patency to Central Airways Occluded by Malignant Endobronchial Tumors Using Intratumoral Injection of Cisplatin.
- Treatment of isolated mediastinal and hilar recurrence of lung cancer with bronchoscopic endobronchial ultrasound guided intratumoral injection of chemotherapy with cisplatin.
- Reply: Treatment of Malignant Airway Obstruction with Intratumoral Injection of Chemotherapy with Cisplatin.
Awards
- American College of Chest Physicians Fellow
Treatments
- Cancer, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Asthma And More
Professional Memberships
- Member SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
- Member AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY
- Member AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS
- Member AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Member AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
Fellowships
- PULMONARY DISEASE AND CRITICAL CARE, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Charleston, SC 1996
- Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston, SC 1999
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