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Summary

• Dr. Philip Slocum is a pulmonologist in Joplin, MO. He received his medical degree from A. T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and has been in practice 43 years. He is experienced in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, breathing pattern disorder/vocal cord dysfunction, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension and pleural disease. He helped establish a “pleural disease” clinic at Freeman Lung Institute, so if a patient arrives even without an appointment and they have significant pleural effusion they will drain the fluid that day. He was Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Medicne at 4 different medical schools and was the director of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of North Texas and was the fellowship director. He is a former Dean of a Medical School. He has publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine and several other national and international journals and over 500 citings.