Program Director’s Welcome
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program

Amee Patrawalla MD MPH

Associate Professor
Program Director, PCCM Fellowship

Thank you for your interest in the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program. We provide outstanding training experiences in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

We offer a three-year ACGME accredited Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship, as well as a one-year Critical Care fellowship for those eligible.

Our goals are:

• to deliver high quality, hands-on clinical training


• to engage learners in scientific inquiry


• to develop the fellow's skills as educators


• to promote humanism and fellow wellbeing

Our overall mission is to ensure fellows graduating from our program are outstanding clinicians, educators and leaders. We also strive to enhance and support the individual interests of each fellow as their training progresses.

Fellows in the program rotate to three hospitals, University Hospital, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and the East Orange VA Medical Center, each providing a unique experience to the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow. Together, these three institutions create a comprehensive, robust training program. Fellows will have core rotations in the medical ICU, inpatient pulmonary consult services and outpatient pulmonary settings. The clinical experience includes surgical/trauma critical care, neurocritical care, advanced bronchoscopy, radiology and sleep medicine. Fellows have unique opportunities to rotate to two nationally funded centers, the Global Tuberculosis Institute (GTBI) at NJMS and the NJ War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) at the VA. Fellows also have dedicated time to spend on scholarly activity within the Division and are encouraged to present their work at national professional society meetings. Our dedicated and highly skilled faculty work closely with each fellow and enjoy the collegial relationship that develops.

We aim to recruit a diverse group of fellows who come together with the unified goal of immersing themselves in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and in the breadth of experiences we offer.  We are very proud of our graduates and the long-term professional success they have had. Our graduates are confident clinicians, highly skilled educators and respected leaders, and we focus on supporting their growth throughout their time with us. We believe we are well positioned to support any career goal.