Author Biographies

Dr. Tamás Dolinay is an assistant clinical professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his medical degree and, later, a Ph.D. in Clinical Medicine at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. For his postdoctoral research, he studied acute lung injury at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Bringham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. For clinical training, he completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical and research interests are acute lung injury, mechanical ventilation and interstitial lung diseases.
Dr. Lillian Hsu is assistant clinical professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UCLA. She is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. Her clinical interests include asthma, COPD, pulmonary nodules and interstitial lung diseases. Dr. Hsu is a Los Angeles native, who received her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at The Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla and then completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She graduated cum laude with her undergraduate degree from Columbia University in New York, where she majored in biology with a concentration in mathematics. Prior to starting medical school, she completed a year of research in a Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital collaborative laboratory.
Abigail Maller is a pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine physician at UCLA. She is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine and sleep medicine. Her clinical interests include obstructive and central sleep apnea, narcolepsy and nocturnal non-invasive ventilation. She completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University, where she studied biology and psychology. She received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, where she also completed her internal medicine residency. She then left New York City for a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at UCLA and became enamored with the California lifestyle. She stayed on at UCLA to complete a sleep medicine fellowship. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Maller maintains a focus on teaching as the UCLA Site Director for the Sleep Medicine Fellowship. She enjoys fitness, live music and film in her spare time.
B. Corbett Walsh is a pulmonary and critical care physician with a focus on palliative care and bioethics. After completing a graduate degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, he completed medical school, an internal medicine residency and a PCCM fellowship at New York University, where he was exposed to unprecedented critical care crises including Hurricane Sandy and surges in the COVID-19 pandemic. He subsequently finished a second fellowship in Palliative Care at Mount Sinai in New York City to better facilitate goal-concordant care and conduct complex goals-of-care discussions near the end of life. He has a passion for bioethics, remains committed to incorporating his bioethical knowledge to further patient care and has served on numerous hospital bioethics committees, taken leadership roles at the local and national level and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He is also skilled in clinical ethics consultation and complex end-of-life discussions. His current research interests include understanding end-of-life decision-making for unrepresented patients and simulating resource allocation outcomes during crisis standards of care. This important work has led to publications, national presentations and grant funding, including a recent CHEST Foundation grant.
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Dr. Dale Jun, MD is a pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine staff physician at the West Los Angeles VA as well as UCLA. His clinical interests, among others, include respiratory diseases, sleep disordered breathing and chronic respiratory failure requiring long term non-invasive and mechanical ventilation. He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and he completed an internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai/VA and sleep medicine, pulmonary and critical care fellowships at UCLA.
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