Co-Founders
Kristina Montemayor
Kristina “Monty” Montemayor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the PCCM Fellowship Associate Program Director. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX, and a nursing degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. After working as a bedside nurse, she went on to receive her M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Gavelston, TX. She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Her clinical focus is on Cystic Fibrosis and she does research on the association of sex hormones and respiratory morbidity in CF.
David Furfaro
Dave “Furf” Furfaro is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also the Associate MICU Director and Co-Director of the VV-ECMO Program at BIDMC. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Duke University, and after college was served in AmeriCorps working in HIV Services at Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center in NYC. He completed his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins and subsequently was an Assistant Chief of Service. He completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at Columbia University. His clinical focus is on Pulmonary Hypertension and critical care with a particular interest in ECMO/MCS.
Associate Editors
Luke Hedrick
Luke Hedrick is a fPulmonary and Critical Care fellow at Emory. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Neurobiology and Spanish before attending the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at BIDMC. He is in charge of the Rapid Fire Journal Club series
Rupali Sood
Rupali Sood grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada and made her way over to Baltimore for medical school at Johns Hopkins. She then completed her internal medicine residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital before returning back to Johns Hopkins, where she is currently a second year pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow alongside Tom. Rupali’s interests include interstitial lung disease, particularly as related to oncologic drugs. And she also loves bedside medical education.
Thomas Di Vitantonio
Tom Di Vitantonio is originally from New Jersey and attended medical school at Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School in Newark. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Weill Cornell, where he also served as a chief resident. He currently is a second year pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins, and he’s passionate about caring for critically ill patients, how we approach the management of pulmonary embolism, and also about medical education of trainees to help them be more confident and patient centered in the care they have going forward.
Prior Editors
Tess Litchman
Tess Litchman is a first-year Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT where she studied neuroscience and internal relations. She attended medical school at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and completed her internal medicine residency at BIDMC. She is interested in medical education and pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Nick Ghionni
Nicholas Ghionni is an attending physiican with the MedStar Baltimore Hospital system where he works as a Critical Care Intensivist as well as provides inpatient general pulmonary consultation. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Mercy Catholic Medical Center in PA serving as Chief Internal Medicine resident. He completed his Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center where he also served as Chief Fellow his final year. His specific interests include mechanical ventilation, POCUS, and medical education.