Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division
of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Clinical
Interests
Dr. Yip is interested in all aspects of clinical
pulmonary medicine.In particular, he
is interested in the evaluation and management of patients with asthma,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis), and
pulmonary tuberculosis.He is actively
involving in evaluating patients with severe emphysema for lung volume
reduction surgery.He also
participates in different clinical trials within the Division.
Education
and Training
1972, B.S., St.FrancisCollege, Brooklyn,
NY
1976, M.D., AlbertEinsteinCollege
of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Residency: Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center, New York,
NY
Internal Medicine, 1976 – 1979
Fellowship: New
York University-Bellevue Hospital Center, New
York, NY
Pulmonary Disease
Honors
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Fellow, AmericanCollege
of Physicians
Fellow, AmericanCollege
of Chest Physicians
Board of Directors, Chinese American Medical
Society
One of “The Best Doctors in New
York in Pulmonary Disease”, New York Magazine, 1998, 1999 and 2000
Publications
Yip,
C.K., Epstein, H., Goldring, R.M.: Relationship
of Functional Residual Capacity to Static Pulmonary Mechanics in Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Am. J. Med. Sci. 287
(3): 3-6, 1984.
Peterson, M.W., Austin, J.H.M., Yip, C.K., McManus, R.P., Jaretzki, A., III:CT Findings in TransdiaphragmaticEmpyemaNecessitatis Due to
Tuberculosis.J. of Computer Assisted
Tomography 11 (4): 704-706, July/August, 1987.
Becker, M.D., Berkman,
Y.M., Austin, J.H.M., Mun,
I.K., Romney, B.M., Rozenshtein, A., Jellen, P.A., Yip,
C.K., Thomashow, B., Ginsburg, M.E.:
Lung Volumes before and after Lung Volume Reduction Surgery: Quantitative CT
Analysis.Am. J. Respir.
Crit. Care Med. 157: 1593-1599, 1998
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Rationale and Design
of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT): A Prospective Randomized
Trial of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.J. Thorac. Cardiovasc.
Surg.118:
518-528, 1999
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Rationale and Design
of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT): A Prospective Randomized
Trial of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.Chest 116: 1750-1761, 1999
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Rationale and Design
of the National emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT): A Prospective Randomized
Trial of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.J. Cardiopulm. Rehabil.
20: 24-36, 2000
Yip,
C.K.: Medical Management of Emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease. In: Argenziano, M., Ginsburg, M. E., ed.
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. New
Jersey: The Humana Press Inc. 2001. p. 81-96
Ramsey, S., Sullivan, S., Kaplan, R., Wood, D.,
Chiang, Y., Wagner, J., for the NETT Research Group: Economic Analysis of Lung Volume Reduction
Surgery as Part of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 71: 995-1002,
2001
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Patients at High Risk
of Death after Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. N. Engl. J. Med. 345:1075-1083,
2001
Scharf,
S.M., Iqbal, M., Keller, C., Criner,
G., Lee, S., Fessler, H.E., for the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT)
Research Group: Hemodynamic Characterization of
Patients with Severe Emphysema.Am. J.
Respir. Crit. Care Med.
166:314-322, 2002
Mohsenifar, Z.,
Lee, S.M, Diaz, P., Criner, G., Sciurba,
F., Ginsburg, M., Wise, R.A., for the NETT
Research Group: Single-breath Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon
Monoxide: A Predictor of PAO2, Maximum Work Rate, and Walking Distance in
Patients with Emphysema.Chest 123:
1394-1400, 2003
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Cost Effectiveness of
Lung-Volume-Reduction Surgery for Patients with Severe Emphysema.N. Engl. J. Med. 348: 2092-2102, 2003
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: A Randomized Trial
Comparing Lung-Volume-Reduction Surgery with Medical Therapy for Severe
Emphysema.N. Engl. J. Med.348: 2059-2073, 2003
Sciurba, F., Criner, G.J., Lee, S.M., Mohsenifar,
Z., Shade, D., Slivka, W., Wise, R.A., for the NETT Research Group: Six-minute Walk
Distance in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Reproducibility and Effect
of Walking Course Layout and Length.Am. J. Respir. Crit.
Care Med.167: 1522-1527, 2003
National
Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group: Safety and Efficacy
of Medical Sternotomy Versus Video-Assisted
Thoracic Surgery for Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 127: 1350-60,
2004
Lee, S.M., Wise, R., Sternberg, A.L., Tonascia, J., Piantadosi, S.,
for the National Emphysema Treatment
Trial Research Group: Methodologic Issues in
Terminating Enrollment of a Subgroup of Patients in a Multicenter
Randomized Trial.Clinical Trials 1:
326-338, 2004
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy
and Critical Care Medicine
