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Byron Thomashow, MD

Medical Director, NYP Lung Volume Reduction Program
Medical Director, Jo-Ann LeBuhn Center for Chest Disease
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Expertise:

Allergy and Asthma Management
Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
Asthma
Bronchiectasis
Bronchitis
Chronic Cough
Chronic Lung Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Emphysema
General Pulmonology
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT)
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Interstitial Lung Disease
LAM Lung Disease
Lung Cancer
Lung Nodules
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
Pulmonary Diagnostics
Pulmonary Disease
Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Fibrosis
Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary Medicine
Pulmonology
Restrictive Lung Diseases
Sarcoidosis
Tuberculosis

About:

Dr Byron Thomashow is a Professor of Medicine Columbia University Medical Center and an Attending Physician at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He helped found the COPD Foundation in 2004 and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for ten years. As of July 2018 he took on the role of Chief Medical Officer of the Foundation. He is the medical co-director of the Jo-Ann LeBuhn Center for Chest Disease on the Columbia campus and is medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Lung Volume Reduction program. He chaired the Respiratory Disease Council of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare Network for many years, and co-chaired the NewYork-Presbyterian smoking cessation initiative leading to campus going smoke free. He has served as co-chair for the NY State COPD Coalition, cochaired the New York State COPD Summit in 2010, co-chaired COPD7 USA 2011, COPD8USA 2013, COPD 9USA 2015, COPD10 USA 2017, and co-chaired the COPDFoundation COPD Readmission Summits in October 2013 and March 2015.
The Byron M Thomashow Professorship of Medicine Columbia University was established in 2006. He was awarded the 2013 American Thoracic Society Public Advisory Roundtable Excellence Award. In 2016 he received the Columbia University 2016 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. In 2017 he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018 he received the JWWalsh Visionary Award from the COPD Foundation. He was a member of the steering committee and the co-primary investigator at the Columbia site for the National Emphysema Treatment Trial and has been and remains actively involved in multiple national clinical research projects.

Honors:

Best Doctors in New York, New York Magazine, 1991-2015-2021

The Best New York Metro Area Doctors, Castle Connolly Guide, 1997-2020

Best Doctors in America, Castle Connolly Guide 2001-2016, 2017-2021

Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor, 2021

The American Registry-America’s Most Honored Doctors, 2021

Who's Who in the East, Marquis Publications, 1995-2016

Who's Who in the World, Marquis Publications 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003-2005, 2018, 2019, 2020

Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Marquis Publications, 1997-2007, 2009-2012

Who's Who in America, Marquis Publications, 1998-2004, 2009, 2014-2016

Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Publications, 1998-1999, 2003-2004

Who’s Who Top Doctors Honors Edition, 2020

New York Super Doctors 2008-2021, Super Doctors Hall of Fame 2017-Present

Alfred Markowitz Service Award, Society of Practitioners CPMC, 2002

Member, Program Committee NIH National COPD Conference 11/03

Columbia University Medical Center Medical Housestaff Teaching Award, 2004

Man of Good Conscience Award, National Society of Women Psychiatrists, 2005

Co-Chair, COPD Foundation National Conference-COPD and Primary Care 11/2006

Establishment of Byron M Thomashow Clinical Professorship of Medicine, Columbia University, 2006

Co-Chair, COPD Foundation National Conference, COPD 2007, 11/07

Co-Chair, COPD Foundation National Conference, COPD 2008, 11/08

Co-Chair, COPD Foundation Lung Health, 2010 Conference

Online expert, New York Times: COPD - One of Six Great Killers Series, 12/07

Columbia University Ewig Clinical Scholar, 2008-2009

Co-Chairman, COPD Foundation Fundraiser, 2008, 2009-2020

Co-Chairman, NewYork Presbtyerian Annual Gala, 2010

Co-Chairman, NY COPD Coalition, NY COPD Summit, 2009-2012

Member, Planning Committee U.S. COPD Coalition National Meeting, 2011

Co-Chairman, COPD7USA Conference, Washington, DC, December 2011, COPD 8 USA Chicago, June 2013

Honoree, Alpha-1 Foundation, 2011

Member, Steering Committee COPD Foundation Biomarkers Consortium, 2011-present

Member, Steering Committee Drive4COPD, 2012-2014

Co-Chairman, COPD8USA Conference June 2013, Chicago

Co-Chairman, COPD Foundation, COPD Readmission Summit, November 2013, Washington DC

Consultant to the National Institute of Medicine, 2013-present

Master Consultant to the National Institute of Medicine, 2015-present

Recipient, 2013 ATS Public Advisory Roundtable (PAR) Excellence Award

Recipient, 2014 Vitals Patients' Choice Award

Co-Chairman, COPD Foundation COPD Readmissions Summit, March 2015, Washington, DC

Co-Chairman, COPD9USA Conference June 2015 Chicago; COPD10USA July 2017 Chicago

Member, Planning Committee COPD10 Birmingham, England, 2016

Recipient, Columbia University Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, May 2016

Member, Gold Humanism Honor Society, 2016

NY Top Docs, 2016-21

America’s Most Honored Professionals, 2017

Member, Columbia Academy of Clinical Excellence, 2017-present

Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017

JWWalsh Visionary Award COPD Foundation November 2018

American Registry America’s Most Honored Doctors 2020

Interests:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Lung volume reduction
Exercise physiology
Optical electronic plethymography

Publications:

Yawn BP, Han M, Make BM, Mannino D, Brown RW, Meldrum C, Murray S, Spino C, Bronicki JS, Leidy N, Tapp H, Dolor RJ, Joo M, Knox L, Zittleman L, Thomashow BM, Martinez FJ. Protocol Summary of the CAPTURE Validation in Primary Care Study. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2020 Nov 5. doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.2020.0155. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33156981

Aviv J, Chandraselkhar s, Thomashow B. COVID-19 era post viral vagal neuropathy presenting as persistent shortness of breath with normal pulmonary imaging. Int J Pul & Res Sci 4(4): IJOPRS.MS.ID.555641 (2020)

Tal-Singer R, Yawn B, Wise B, Thomashow B, Boyce DM. The COPD Foundation Coronavirus Disease 2019 International Medical Experts Survey: results. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2020; 7(3): 139-146. doi: http://doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.7.3.2020.0164

Thomashow B, Carlomagno CG. In gratitude to James D. Crapo. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2020; 7(3): 134-135. doi: http://doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.7.3.2020.0177

Mannino DM, Thomashow B Counterpoint –Can screening for COPD improve outcomes? CHEST 2020; 157(1)9-13. DOI:htpps://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2019.05.035

Müllerová h , Dransfield M, Thomashow B , Jones P, Rennard S; Fageras M ; Metzdorf N, Petruzzelli S, Rommes J , Sciurba F , Tabberer M, Merrill D, Tal-Singer R , on behalf of the COPD Biomarker Qualification Consortium and the CAT Governance Board. Clinical Development and Research Applications of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT). https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201907-1369PP

Lowe KE, Regan EA, Anzueto A, et al. COPDGene 2019: redefining the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2019; 6(5): 384-399. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.6.5.2019.0149

COPD Foundation Board of Directors. Time to redefine? A statement of the COPD Foundation. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2019; 6(5): 430-432. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.6.5.2019.0168

Thomashow B, Crapo JD, Drummond MB, et al. Introducing the new COPD Pocket Consultant Guide app: can a digital approach improve care? A statement of the COPD Foundation. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2019; 6(3): In press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.6.3.2018.0167