BrettJamesLeyMD

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Clinical Instructor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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505 Parnassus Ave
Rm M-987
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone+1 415-476-1528

I am a pulmonary and critical care specialist at the Interstitial Lung Disease program at UCSF Medical Center. The multidisciplinary program includes pulmonologists, radiologists, pathologists, nurses and dedicated staff members with expertise in interstitial lung disease.

University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2012 - 2015
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2008 - 2012
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2008

PubMed

214 citations
Epidemiology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Brett Ley, Harold R. Collard
Clinical Epidemiology. 2013-11-25
60 citations
Analysis of pulmonary features and treatment approaches in the COPA syndrome.
Jessica Tsui, Oscar A. Estrada, Zimu Deng, Kristin M. Wang, Christopher S. Law
ERJ Open Research. 2018-04-01
83 citations
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: CT and Risk of Death
Brett Ley, Brett M. Elicker, Thomas E. Hartman, Christopher J. Ryerson, Eric Vittinghoff
Radiology. 2014-06-12

#ATS2018 – Esbriet Lowers Risk of Seasonal IPF Flares Leading to Hospitalizations, Phase 3 Data ShowMay 29th, 2018
Bactrim for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis? Intriguing, but Not yet (RCT, Thorax)February 12th, 2016