Prior to joining Memorial Healthcare System, I spent 28 years as an academic physician teaching pulmonary and critical care medicine to trainees of all levels. My role at Memorial Regional Hospital will be providing care in the intensive care units.
 
Medicine was the logical progression from an interest in biology and science, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world. My role is to optimize the care of the patients and families under my care, providing the information they need to understand their illness and its likely course, and then guiding them through the most appropriate course of treatment.
 
Along with my patient care responsibilities, I will be maintaining a teaching role at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and its major teaching hospital, as well as with the American College of Chest Physicians. Before joining Memorial, I spent 13 years as a staff physician at Rhode Island Hospital and as medical director of respiratory therapy and director of the pulmonary fellows’ clinic.  Prior to that, I served as a staff and teaching physician with teaching hospitals associated with University of Massachusetts Medical School and Harvard Medical School for 14 years.
  
When I am not at the hospital or teaching, I enjoy long distance bike riding and skiing as much as scheduling allows in the winter months.

Hospital Affiliations

• Memorial Hospital Miramar
• Memorial Hospital Pembroke
• Memorial Hospital West
• Memorial Regional Hospital

Gender

• Male

Education

Columbia University, 1983

Internships

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1984, Internal Medicine

Residency

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1986, Internal Medicine

Fellowships

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-East, 1989, Pulmonary Disease

Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine-Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine-Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary Disease

Publications

• Dushay KM, Zibrak JD, Jensen WA. Myasthenia Gravis Presenting as Isolated Respiratory Failure. Chest 1990; 97(1):232-34 
• Rose RM, Kobzik L, Filderman AE, Vermeulen MW, Dushay K, Donahue RE, Remington L. Characterization of Colony Stimulating Factor Activity in the Human Respiratory Tract: Comparison of Healthy Smokers and Non-smokers. Am Rev Respir Dis 1992; 145:394-99 
• Rose RM, Kobzik L, Dushay K, Wolfthal S, Hondalus M, Metzger M, Stoudemire J, Brain JD, Garnick M, Donahue RE. The Effect of Aerosolized Recombinant Human Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor on Lung Leukocytes in Non-Human Primates. Am Rev Respir Dis 1992; 146:1279-86 
• LoCicero J, Costello P, Campos CT, Francalancia N, Dushay KM, Silvestri RC, Zibrak JD. Spiral CT with Multiplanar and Three-Dimensional Reconstructions Accurately Predicts Tracheobronchial Pathology. Ann Thorac Surg 1996; 62:811-17 
• Angel LF, Dushay KM, Ernst A. Bronchoscopic Image: Bilateral Airway Necrosis. J Bronchology 2002; 9:38-9 
• Dushay KM, Walker SD. The National Organ Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative – A Rhode Island Hospital Perspective. Medicine and Health/Rhode Island 2007; 90:91-93 
• Ward NS, Dushay KM. Clinical Concise Review: Mechanical Ventilation of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Crit Care Med 2008; 36:1614–1619 
• Dushay KM, Puente N, Aswad B. Critical Care Puzzler – Tumor Emboli Syndrome. American College of Chest Physicians Critical Care Network Website: http://www.chestnet.org/networks/critical_care/index.php 2009
• Kobayashi L, Lindquist DG, Jenouri IM, Dushay KM, Haze D, Sutton EM, Smith JL, Tubbs RJ, Overly FL, Foggle J, Dunbar- Viveiros J, Jones MS, Marcotte ST, Werner DL, Cooper MR, Martin PB, Tammaro D, Jay, GD. Comparison of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Performance Data Obtained from In-Hospital Incident Chart Review and in situ High-Fidelity Medical Simulation. Resuscitation 2010; 81(4):463-71 

Books & Book Chapters

• Dushay KM. Chapter 19 – Percutaneous Suprapubic Cystostomy. In Irwin RS, Rippe JM, eds. Manual of Intensive Care Medicine, 4th Edition. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins © 2006
• Dushay KM. Percutaneous Suprapubic Cystostomy. Irwin RS, Rippe JM eds. Manual of Intensive Care Medicine 5th Edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins © 2010 
• Dushay, KM. Percutaneous Suprapubic Cystostomy. Irwin RS, Lilly C, Rippe JM eds. Manual of Intensive Care Medicine 6th Edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins © 2014

Presentations

• “Lung Cancer Screening”, Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians Scientific Meeting, Cranston, RI, May 7, 2015 
• “COPD Update 2015” Medical Grand Rounds, Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH, September 22, 2015 
• “ICU & NEOB – Working Together to Save Lives” Presentation for New England Organ Bank, Waltham, MA October 22, 2015 
• Controversies in Airway Management in the Critically Ill – “Con – Critical Care Fellows Still Need to Learn Direct Laryngoscopy First to Manage the Airway in the ICU” CHEST 2015 Meeting, Montreal, Canada, October 28, 2015 
• “Anxiety in the Patient with Respiratory Distress – Causes and Treatments” Fourth Annual Dr. Meyer Saklad Memorial Respiratory Care Symposium, June 12, 2014, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI