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David Schulman MD, MPH

  • Department of Medicine
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Overview

Dr. David Schulman is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins, followed by Internal Medicine residency at the University of Rochester. During his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University, he obtained additional training in Sleep Medicine and performed research in sleep epidemiology using data from the Framingham Heart Study. He moved to Atlanta to join the Emory faculty in 2001 as a clinician educator. From 2001 through 2015, he served as medical director of the Emory Sleep Laboratory; while his clinical practice initially incorporated components of both pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, his current clinical focus is on the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders as part of the Emory Sleep Center.


From the beginning of his career, Dr. Schulman has taken an active role in the training of pulmonary and critical care medicine fellows, having taken over the role of Training Program Director in 2006, a role in which he served for fourteen years. Dr. Schulman currently serves as Associate Division Director for Education. He directs the undergraduate medical curriculum in evidence-based medicine. In 2019, he was appointed as the Director of Emory's Foundations Phase which comprises the first eighteen months of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Dr. Schulman has received numerous institutional teaching awards, including the Fellows Teaching Award from the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, two Golden Apple Award for Teaching from the Emory Internal Medicine Residency Program and the Deans Teaching Award from the School of Medicine. Extramurally, his work in education has been recognized with a Fellows Education Award from the American Thoracic Society and the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He served as President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors in 2014.


Dr. Schulman actively serves on a number of regional and national committees. He served as President of the Southeast Thoracic Association from 2011 through 2014. He served as President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors in 2013-2014. He is also actively involved in the American College of Chest Physicians, where he previously served on the Education Committee, the Training and Transitions Committee and the Sleep SEEK and Pulmonary SEEK Editorial Boards. He has served as Program Chair for two large international meetings: the CHEST meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in 2018, and CHEST Congress 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand. He served as President of the American College of Chest Physicians in 2022.

Academic Appointment

  • Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • BA from Yale College
  • MPH from Boston University School of Public Health

Research

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