Christopher Chang, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Chang earned his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Southern California. After initially working as a hospitalist, he pursued a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at OHSU followed by an interventional pulmonary fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His clinical interests include advanced and therapeutic bronchoscopy, lung cancer, pleural diseases, and critical care medicine.

Kimberly Curlin, MN FNP-C

Kimberly Curlin, MN, FNP-C, earned her BSN at University of Washington and her Master of Nursing Degree, Family Nurse Practitioner at OHSU.  She joined VA Portland Health Care System in 2018 and is currently the Associate Director of the VISN 20 Centralized Lung Cancer Screening Program. 

Stephanie Jacobson, DNP FNP-C

Stephanie Jacobson, DNP, FNP-C, attended the University of Portland for both her BSN and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees. She works with lung cancer patients providing surveillance and ensuring they have survivorship needs met. She also sees general pulmonary patients in the fellows’ clinic and has created a smoking cessation clinic. She supports fellows and residents in management of their patients when they are not on service. Her clinical interests include developing a more comprehensive cancer survivorship program at the Portland VA and working with advanced COPD patients.

John G. Mastronarde, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Mastronarde was born in Youngstown OH and attended John Carroll University in Cleveland Ohio for his undergraduate degree. He completed medical school and residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at The Ohio State University and Columbus Children’s Hospital. He then completed pulmonary/critical care training at the University of Iowa and obtained sleep board certification via AASM and subsequently a master’s degree in clinical research at Indiana University.  Prior to moving to OHSU/VA he was at The Ohio State University for 12 years serving as Program Director for Pulm/CC fellowship and as Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Internal Medicine. His clinical activities are at the Portland VAMC.  He has a primary clinical interest in asthma having established an asthma clinic at the VA and he also sees patients in sleep clinics, general pulmonary clinics, on pulmonary inpatient consults and is part of the Portland VA’s comprehensive ALS clinic.

Christian Morales Perez, MD

Staff Physician

Dr. Perez received his MD from Temple University School of Medicine and completed his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Lakshmi Mudambi, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Mudambi was born in New Mexico and is a board-certified Interventional Pulmonologist. She is the Director of Interventional Pulmonology at the Portland VA Health Care System. She received her medical degree from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Baylor College of Medicine and fellowship training in Interventional Pulmonology at University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical interests focus on the use of minimally invasive, advanced bronchoscopic and pleural procedures to reduce the impact of diagnosis and treatment of cancer-related thoracic pathology. Her current research interests include improving the quality and efficiency of staging and diagnosis of lung cancer in the VA.

Liana Schweiger, MD, MCR

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Schweiger was raised in New York City. She earned her undergraduate degree from New York University and medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2015 and stayed on as an academic hospitalist for two years. She then completed fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at OHSU, followed by a VA Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research & Development at the VA Portland Health Care System and a master's in clinical research at OHSU. She joined OHSU and VA faculty in 2022. Her academic and clinical interests include building interdisciplinary trust and medical education in the ICU.  In her free time, she loves to snuggle her cats and explore Portland’s ever-evolving food scene.

Andrea (Anne) Smeraglio, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Co-Appointed to the Division of Hospital Medicine & the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Smeraglio completed medical school at OHSU and received her internal medicine training at Stanford Hospital. She practices clinically as a hospitalist at the Portland Veterans Hospital. She has research interests in the cross-section of education and health system sciences. Specifically, how to engage trainees in using improvement science to provide better, more affordable, more equitable and safer care for our patients.  She serves as core faculty for Health Systems Science for the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and is working to expand the footprint of health systems education within the division through fellow & faculty development opportunities. In addition, she has been the Director for Health Systems Science for the internal medicine residency since 2020. In this role she oversees the longitudinal health systems science curriculum called TIS (Teaching Improvement Science) and the Health Systems Projects completed by all residents.  

Jeremy Wearn, MD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Wearn is a native of Oregon; he was born in Salem and completed high school in Portland. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College in 2010 with a BS in Human Physiology. He received his MD from OHSU in 2015. He completed Internal Medicine residency and was a Chief Resident at Tulane University in 2019. He completed a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Chicago in 2020. He performs clinical activities at the Portland VA within Sleep Medicine and as a Hospitalist on the teaching service. He is the Associate Program Director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship. His career interests focus on graduate medical education, the impact of sleep disordered breathing on cardiovascular disease, management of sleep disorders in inpatients, and expansion of telemedicine sleep services and home sleep testing.