Columbia University Medical Center
My name is Mikiyas Desta, MD and I am a Pulmonary and Critical Care 3rd year fellow at NewYork Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. I am originally from Ethiopia and moved to the US in 2012. I completed my undergraduate training in Saint Louis University in 2016 and medical school at the University of Kentucky in 2020. I relocated to New York City in 2020 for Internal Medicine residency at Weill Cornell Medicine. In residency, I developed an interest in medical education and critical care ultrasonography. With my advisors, I rolled out a cardiac POCUS training curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents and published a manuscript in the International Journal of Healthcare Simulation.
I have been a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow at Columbia since 2023. I am currently in my 3rd year of fellowship and also serving as a Chief Fellow. My clinical interest is in bronchiectasis, and I am particularly most interested in an approach to rethinking bronchiectasis as a complex inflammatory disease and the identification of anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory therapies in addition to current standard of care. I am currently involved in research looking at the role for CF genetic testing among adults with bronchiectasis, utility of nasal NO testing, as well as using national registry data to look at the impact of inhaled steroid use and socioeconomic status on clinical outcomes in bronchiectasis. My other clinical and research interests include CF therapeutics and NTM disease.
AF1- Screening for CF Among Our Patients with Bronchiectasis: An Unmet Need
Friday, October 24, 2025
7:45 AM - 9:45 AM PDT