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Office
100 E Lancaster Ave
Suite 230
Wynnewood, PA 19096Phone+1 610-642-3796Fax+1 610-642-2943
Summary
- Dr. Donald Peterson is a pulmonologist in Wynnewood, PA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, with the great majority of time at Lankenau Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice 43 years. He specializes in critical care medicine, sleep medicine, and general pulmonology. He was the Main Line Health System Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine for over 25 years.
He currently is the Mary L. Smith Endowed Chair in Pulmonology and Critical Care, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.
He has over 10 publications and over 500 citations, including the landmark 1989 NEJM article describing the presentation of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infections in patients without underlying predispositions.
Education & Training
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1978 - 1981- University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Internal Medicine, 1975 - 1977
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1975
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 1976 - 2024- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification eClinicalWorks EHR, eClinicalWorks LLC, 2012-2013
- Top MD Consumers Checkbook
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 37 citationsMycobacterium avium in Community and Household Water, Suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2010-2012.Leah Lande, David C. Alexander, Richard J. Wallace, Rebecca Kwait, Elena Iakhiaeva
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2019-03-01 - 20 citationsNormal estrogen, but low dehydroepiandrosterone levels, in women with pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex. A preliminary study.Joshua Danley, Rebecca Kwait, Donald D. Peterson, Jocelyn Sendecki, Beverly Vaughn
Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2014-07-17 - 93 citationsAbsence of Mycobacterium intracellulare and Presence of Mycobacterium chimaera in Household Water and Biofilm Samples of Patients in the United States with Mycobacteri...Richard J. Wallace, Elena Iakhiaeva, Myra D. Williams, Barbara A. Brown-Elliott, Sruthi Vasireddy
Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2013-06-01
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