Dr. Nicholas S Hill MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
593 Eddy St Apc 7 Providence RI, 02903About
Dr. Nicholas Hill practices Pulmonology in Providence, RI. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Hill 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
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine- 1977
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Targeted disruption of the gene for natriuretic peptide receptor-A worsens hypoxia-induced cardiac hypertrophy.
- Pulmonary edema caused by inhaled nitric oxide therapy in two patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with the CREST syndrome.
- Echocardiographic predictors of adverse outcomes in primary pulmonary hypertension.
- Update in clinical toxicology.
- Effect of a nonrebreathing exhalation valve on long-term nasal ventilation using a bilevel device.
- Controlled trial of oronasal versus nasal mask ventilation in the treatment of acute respiratory failure.
- A novel form of manually assisted ventilation.
- Frequency and severity of tricuspid regurgitation determined by Doppler echocardiography in primary pulmonary hypertension.
- Which patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease benefit from noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation? A systematic review of the literature.
- Practice guidelines for noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation: help or hindrance?
- Acute applications of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.
- Evaluation and management of pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis.
- Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for respiratory failure caused by exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a standard of care?
- Pulmonary complications of chronic neuromuscular diseases and their management.
- Noninvasive ventilation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Clinical Trials
Awards
- Top Doctor, Boston Magazine 2012-2013
- Top Doctor and in top 1% in the nation in his specialty, U.S. News & 2012
- Murray Kornfeld Memorial Lecturer 2002
- American College Of Chest Physicians
- ELI LILLY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD 2002
- **ALSO BOARD CERTIFIED IN CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE**
- Henry Chadwick Award, Mass Thoracic Society
- Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture, American College of Chest Physici
- President, American Thoracic Society 2011
- Award for Excellence in Clinical PAH Care Pulmonary Hypertension Asso 2009
Fellowships
- University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
- Boston University School of Medicine
- UMass Memorial Medical Center, Fellow:Cardiovascular Diseases 1978
- Boston University Medical Ctr Hospital, Fellow:Pulmonary Disease 1979
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