
Dr. KAPIL N. PATEL, M.D
Dr. Kapil N. Patel is currently the Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Programs, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He is also an Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Email: kapil.patel@advocatehealth.org
Education
Academia Medyczna w Lublinie, 2001 Medical University of Lublin) 08/1997 – 06/2001
Syracuse University School of Arts and Science, Biology, Bachelor of Science 08/1993 – 05/1997
Postgraduate Training
Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford CA 08/2008 – 07/2009
Heart-Lung and Lung Transplant Fellowship
University of Vermont College of Medicine, 111 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 07/2004 – 07/2007
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Monmouth Medical Center (affiliate Drexel University) 300 2nd Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07/2001 – 07/2004
Internal Medicine Internship and Residency
American Board of Internal Medicine 2004, 2014
ABIM Pulmonary Medicine 2006, 2016
ABIM Critical Care Medicine 2007, 2018
State of North Carolina Board License (2025-02151) Active
State of Florida Medical Board License (ME 128843) Active
State of California Medical Board License (A 105083) Inactive
State of Maryland Medical Board License (D66342) Inactive
State of New York Medical Board License (242027) Inactive
State of Vermont Medical Board License (042.0010697) Inactive
Awards, Honors, Honorary Society Memberships
Teaching Award, PCCM Stanford 2012
Appointments
Academic
Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine08/2025 – Present
Associate Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 06/2019 – 02/2025
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 06/2016 – 06/2019
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine 09/2011 – 08/2016
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center 08/2010 – 08/2011
Clinical Instructor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center 07/2007 – 07/2008
Administrative
Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tampa General Hospital 08/2020 – 07/2022
Critical Care Steering Committee Member, Tampa General Hospital 08/2017 – 02/2025
Hospital
Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Programs, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine 08/2025 – Present
Director, Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 08/2016 – 12/2023
Medical Director, Heart-Lung and Lung Transplant University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
06/2016 02/2025
Director, VV Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) 01/2020 – 12/2023
Director, Cystic Fibrosis Program University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 06/2016 – 12/2023 Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 06/2017 – 09/2019 Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program Stanford University School of Medicine 07/2014 – 08/2016
Other
Attending, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore UpperUpper Chesapeake Medical Center 07/2009 – 08/2011
Teaching, Lecture
Stanford University Medical Center
Internal Medicine Residency Training Program:
“Pulmonary Function Test” 2012, 2013, 2014
Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship Program: PCCM Lecture Series “Interstitial Lung Disease Management”
2014, 2015, 2016
“Lung Transplant Post-Operative Complications” 2014, 2015
“Lung Transplant Management” 2013, 2014
University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine
EBCR II CPS II Fall 2023
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenator Course Fall 2022
Teaching, Supervisory
Fellow Mentoring
University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine - Patrick Fay, MD 2019 - 2020
Stanford University Medical Center - Ritbune Prakobkit, MD 2015 - 2016
Lectures by Invitation
Update on Transplantation. Stanford Cystic Fibrosis Education Day Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 8/2014
Worsening Disease: Which course to take? Understanding Pulmonary Fibrosis: Seminar for patients, caregivers and families. Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 3/2015
Non-invasive monitoring of infection and rejection after lung transplantation. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Nice, France. 4/2015
Surgical Options: Lung transplant and PTE surgery for CTEPH. Pulmonary Hypertension Association (Patient Education Program Associate), Tampa, FL 11/2016
Lung Allocation Score: Development, Implementation and Results. Transplant Grand Rounds at Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL. 3/2017
Lung Transplantation for Patients with ILD Transplantation by the Bay, Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, Tampa, FL 3/2018
Recognizing and Managing Complications and Comorbidities after Lung Transplantation: An Update. American Thoracic Surgery International Conference, San Diego, CA. 5/2018
Lung Transplantation Medicine Grand Rounds, NCH Healthcare System, Naples, FL 10/2023 Navigating the Evaluation Process Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Summit Meeting Orlando, FL 11/2023
Stanford Cardiothoracic Transplantation Summit 1 Too Close for Too Long? Need for Remote Monitoring in Thoracic Transplantation Vail, Colorado 1/2024
Scholarly Activity
Funds earned: non-applicable
Number of patients enrolled and completed: non-applicable pending activation
Funding source: Washington University (Therakos Inc)
Project Number: 61232843
Role: Principal Investigator (Site)
Dates: Pending Activation Awarded: 08JUN2020
Funds earned: non-applicable
Number of patients enrolled and completed: non-applicable
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123829000
Role: PI
Dates: Pending Activation Awarded: 08JUN2020
Funds earned: non-applicable
Number of patients enrolled and completed: non-applicable
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123829100
Role: PI
Dates: Pending Activation Awarded: 08JUN2020
Funds earned: non-applicable
Number of patients enrolled and completed: non-applicable
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: Pending
Role: PI
Dates: 05NOV2018-present
Funds earned: to date $134,615.22
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 4 enrolled – study ongoing
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123819800
Role: PI
Dates: 10OCT2019 – 22OCT2020
Funds earned: $74,280.00
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 4 enrolled completed 0, closed early by sponsor
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123822200
Role: PI
Dates: 14NOV2019 - 12OCT2020
Funds earned: $42,209.00
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 2 enrolled, 1 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123822500
Role: PI
Dates: 06DEC2019 – 09NOV2020
Funds earned: $81,238.94
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 5 enrolled, 4 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123818000
Role: PI
Dates: 01OCT2016 - ongoing
Funds earned: $9,015.00
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 5 enrolled, 3 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123818500
Role: PI
Dates: 30OCT2018 – 22OCT2019
Funds earned: $56,823.50
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 2 enrolled, 2 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123818600
Role: PI
Dates: 21SEP2018 – 20FEB2019
Funds earned: $39,502.80
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 2 enrolled, 2 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6128319700
Role: PI
Dates: 31MAR2020 – 09OCT2020
Funds earned: N/A
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 1 enrolled, 1 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical compassionate use
Project Number: N/A
Role: PI
Dates: 22MAR2018 – MAR2020
Funds earned: Pending
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 2 enrolled, 2 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: N/A
Role: PI
Dates: 06DEC2019 – 12MAR2019
Funds earned: $8,678.00
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 4 enrolled, 4 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123819500
Role: PI
Dates: OCT2016 – JUN2018
Funds earned: $4,350.00
Number of patients enrolled and completed: Pending
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123816400
Role: PI
Dates: SEP2017 – DEC2018
Funds earned: $33,474.10
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 8 enrolled, 4 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123816700
Role: PI
Dates: OCT2017 - 09OCT2018
Funds earned: $11,459.65
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 3 enrolled, 3 completed
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123817700
Role: PI
Dates: OCT2016 – MAR2017
Funds earned: N/A
Number of patients enrolled and completed: N/A, terminated by sponsor prior to enrollment
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: pending
Role: PI
Dates: NOV2019 - ongoing
Funds earned: $134.623.08
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 5 enrolled, study ongoing
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123821500
Role: Sub-I
Dates: APR2021 - ongoing
Funds earned: $25,575
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 2 enrolled, study ongoing
Funding Source: pharmaceutical industry funded
Project Number: 6123829400
Role: Sub-I
Dates: APR2021 - ongoing
Funds earned: pending
Number of patients enrolled and completed: 8 enrolled, study going
Funding Source: Cystic Fibrosis TDN
Project Number: 61238329
Role: Sub-I
Published Bibliography
Peer Reviewed
S Gangi, F Saidi, KN Patel, D Shine. Cardiovascular complications after GI endoscopy: Occurrence and risks in a large hospital system. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2004, 60:679-685
KN Patel, KD Ganatra, JH Bates, MP Young. Variation in the rapid shallow breathing index associated with common measurement techniques and conditions. Respiratory Care 2009, 54(11):1462-1466
I Vlaminck, L Martin, M Kertesz, K Patel, M Kowarsky, C Strehl, G Cohen, H Luikart, N Neff, J Okamoto, M Nicolls, D Cornfield, D Weill, H Valantine, K Khush, S Quake. Non-invasive monitoring of infection and rejection after lung transplantation. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2015, 112(43):13336-13341
JJ Mooney, H Hedlin, P Mohabir, R Vazquez, J Nguyen, R Ha, P Chiu, K Patel, MR Zamora, D Weill, MR Nicolls, GS Dhillon. Lung Quality and Utilization in Controlled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death Within the United States. Am J Transplant. 2016, 16(4):1207-1215
RL Yang, AW Kurian, LM Winton, D Weill, K Patel, K Kingham, IL Wapnir. Addressing inherited predisposition for breast cancer in transplant recipients. J Surg Oncol 2016, 113(6):605-608
Pasupneti S, Patel K, Mooney JJ, Chhatwani L, Dhillon G, Weill D. Lung Transplantation following death by drowning: a review of the current literature. Clin Transplant. 2016, 30(10):1195-1197
Agbor-Enoh S, Wang Y, Tunc I, Jang MK, Davis A, De Vlaminck I, Luikart H, Shah PD, Timofte I, Brown AW, Marishta A, Bhatti K, Gorham S, Fideli U, Wylie J, Grimm D, Goodwin N, Yang Y, Patel K, Zhu J, Iacono A, Orens JB, Nathan SD, Marboe C, Berry GJ, Quake SR, Khush K, Valantine HA. Donor-derived cell free DNA predicts allograft failure and mortality after lung transplantation. EbioMedicine. 2019, 40:541-553
Sharma NS, Vestal G, Wille K, Patel KN, Cheng F, Tipparaju S, Tousif S, Banday MM, Xu X, Wilson L, Nair VS, Morrow C, Hayes D, Seyfang A, Barnes S, Deshane JS, Gaggar A. Differences in Airway Microbiome and Metabolome of Single Lung Transplant Recipients. Respir Res. 2020, 21(1):104
Sethi J, Bugajski A, Patel KN, Davis NM, Willie KM, Qureshi MR, Banday MM, Lin M, Emani V, Weill D, Tumin D, Hayes D, Sharma NS. Recipient Age Impacts Long-Term Survival in Adult Cystic Fibrosis Subjects after Lung Transplantation. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2021, 18(1):44-50
Banday MM, Kumar A, Vestal G, Sethi J, Patel KN, O’Neill EB, Finan J, Cheng F, Lin M, Davis NM, Goldberg H, Coppolino A, Mallidi HR, Dunning J, Visner G, Gagger A, Seyfang A, Sharma NS. N- myc-Interactor Mediates Microbiome Induced Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition and is Associated with CLAD. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2021, 40(6):447-457
Fukumoto J, Lin M, Banday MM, Patil SS, Krishnamurthy S, Breitzig M, Soundararajan R, Galam L, Narala VR, Johns C, Patel K, Dunning J, Lockey RF, Sharma NS, Kolliputi N. Aberrant Expression of ACO1 in Vasculatures Parallels Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Front. Pharmacol. 2022 (on-line)
Smirnova, NF, Riemondy K, Bueno M, Collins S, Surech P, Wang XA, Patel KN, Cool C, Konigshoff M, Sharma NS, Eickelberg O. Single-cell transciptome mapping identifies a local, innate B cell population driving chronic rejection after lung transplantation. JCI Insight. 2022, 7(17):e156648
Bandy MM, Rao SB, Shankar S, Khanday MA, Finan J, O’Neill E, Coppolino A, Seyfang A, Kumar A, Rinewalt DE, Goldberg HJ, Woolley A, Mallidi HR, Visner G, Gaggar A, Patel KN, Sharma NS. IL-33 mediates Pseudomonas induced airway fibrogenesis and is associated with CLAD. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023. 42(1):53-63
Smith JE, Amariei DA, Herazo-Maya J, Niyazi S, Ruffalo RF, Patel KN, Qureshi MR, Abraham J, Bandyopadhyay D. Chronic Pulmonary Silicone Embolism Syndrome Following Saline Breast Implants. AIM Clinical Cases November 2023
Tourki B, Jia M, Karampitsakos T, Vera I, Arsenault A, Marlin K, Perrot C, Farsaei F, Allen D, Rutenberg D, Bandyopadhyay D, Restrepo R, Qureshi M, Patel K, Tzouveleki A, Kapetanaki M, Guardela J, Kim K, Benos P, Herazo-Maya J. Single-cell transcriptomics discriminates the course of COVID-19 and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. eBioMedicine (pending)
Parket J, Doyle WN, Peddi P, Stevens M, Rogers M, Mhaskar R, Patel K, Ducoin C. Postoperative outcomes of antireflux surgery in lung transplant recipients. J Gastrointest Surg. 2025, 29(9):102126
Case Reports, Technical Notes, Letters
D Weill, K Patel. Lung Transplant for Cystic Fibrosis. Curr Respir Care Rep. 2013, 2:180-186.
Book, Textbooks, Chapters
PE Parsons, KN Patel. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In: Critical Care Secrets, 4th Edition, ed. PE Parsons & JP Wiener-Kronish. Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2007, pp. 142-146.
B Suratt, KN Patel. Organ Donation. In: Critical Care Secrets, 5th Edition, ed. PE Parsons & JP Wiener-Kronish. Elsevier, Philadelphia PA, 2013, pp. 588-592.
B Suratt, K Patel. Organ Donation. In: Critical Care Secrets, 6th Edition, ed. PE Parsons, JP Wiener-Kronish, RD Stapleton & L Berra. Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2019, pp. 446-453.
K Patel, D Weill. History of Lung Transplantation. In: Psychosocial Care of End-Stage Organ Disease and Transplant Patients, ed. Y Sher & JR Maldonado. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 273-277.
K Patel, J Hupp, L Dichiara, N Davis, P Patel. What is involved in Lung Transplantation? In: Facing Organ Transplantation: A Guide for Patients and their Families, ed. Y Sher & T Stern. MGH Psychiatry Academy, 2020, pp. 97-104.
Abstracts Presentations
KN Patel, KD Ganatra, JH Bates, MP Young. Variation in the rapid shallow breathing index associated with common measurement techniques and conditions. American Thoracic Society International Conference 2006
E Riesenfeld, KN Patel, MP Young, JH Bates. Informed Consent in the Intensive Care Unit. American Thoracic Society International Conference 2007
Mooney JJ, Hedlin H, Mohabir PK, Guillamet RV, Ha R, Chiu P, Patel K, Weill D, Nicolls MR, Dhillon GS. Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Donor Characteristics and Lung Donor Utilization within the United States. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2015
Mooney JJ, Hedlin H, Mohabir PK, Guillamet RV, Ha R, Chiu P, Patel K, Weill D, Nicolls MR, Dhillon GS. Recipient Outcomes in Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Lung Donors Within the United States. International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2015
S Pasupneti, A Lawrence, L Chhatwani, K Patel, R Ha, J Boyd, G Dhillon, J Mooney. Combined Lung-Liver Transplantation: The United States Experience. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2016
Sharma NS, Wille KM, Patel K, Pachinbuvaran M, Weill D, Deshane J. Airway Microbiome and Metabolome differentiates Native from Allograft Lung in Single Lung Transplant Recipients. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2018
J Sethi, GA Garrido Rosa, K Patel, N Sharma. Predicting Long Term Survival in Lung Transplant: Analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Database. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2019
J Sullivan, N Sharma, K Patel, A Logan. Analysis of Risk Factors for Invasive Mold Infections in Lung Transplant Recipients. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2019
B Tourki, I Vera, C Perrot, F Farsaei, A Arsenault, B Juan-Guardela, D Allen, R Restrepo, D Bandyopadhyay, E Belli, G Katlaps, K Patel, S Liggett, K Kim, J Herazo-Maya. Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Changes Predicts Mortality and Treatment Response in Acute COVID-19 and Associate with Lung Fibrosis. American Thoracic Society International Conference 2022
Society Memberships
American Thoracic Society 2005 - present
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2008 - present
Ad hoc Reviewer, Manuscripts
Respiratory Medicine
OBM Transplantation
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Biomolecules
European Respiratory Journal (Open Research)