Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, UPMC Presbyterian

Clinical Interest

Dr. Lamberty maintains a pulmonary, sleep and critical care practice, mostly based at the UPMC Presbyterian campus. His clinic at the Comprehensive Lung Center focuses on general pulmonary medicine, sleep and ventilation disorders. He regularly hosts medical students, internal medicine residents and pulmonary fellows in his clinic. He conducts inpatient rounding in the Presbyterian Medical Intensive Care Unit, Advanced Lung Disease Service, Pulmonary consultation service and Select Specialty Long Term Acute Care Hospital. He is board certified in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine by the ABIM.

Educational Interest

Dr. Lamberty has developed a passion for the teaching point of care ultrasonography, airway management, pleural procedures, and the management of shock. Dr. Lamberty leads the PACCM’s commitment to the training and implementation of point of care ultrasonography. He directs a course for ICU physicians and hospitalists entitled “Introduction to Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound” that is held regularly at The Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER). He contributes to the Emergency Medicine residency as one of their ultrasound faculty. He teaches ultrasonography in school of medicine courses and has initiated a curriculum for global health track medicine residents. He maintains paccmus.com, an ultrasound education portal used on the wards to facilitate ultrasound teaching. He is a proponent of “in-situ” simulation, and actively seeks ways to introduce simulation experiences in the ICU and other settings for trainees, students and faculty members.