Medical School
New York Medical College - 1986
Residency
Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Fellowship
Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
Temple University Hospital
Michael Scharf, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Contact Information
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Education
Publications
- An Incidental Finding of Pulmonary Cement Embolism Four Weeks After Vertebroplasty in a 50-Year-Old Man with Multiple Myeloma
- Physician failure to stratify patients hospitalized with acute pulmonary embolism
- Patient-Centered Specialty Practice: Defining the Role of Specialists in Value-Based Health Care
- Delayed recognition of an uncommon cause of iatrogenic pneumothorax
- A call to apply the minimal important difference in pulmonary arterial hypertension beyond the flawed 6-minute-walk test
Board Certification
Critical Care Medicine
Pulmonary Disease
Internal Medicine
Hospital Appointment
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
University Appointment
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, 2009
Research & Clinical Interests
Dr. Michael Scharf joined Thomas Jefferson's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in February 2009 as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. After graduating from New York Medical College, he completed his internal medicine residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York and fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Hospital. After fellowship, he joined the pulmonary medicine staff at the Deborah Heart & Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey, where he served as director of the pulmonary function lab and the library and continuing education committee and founded and directed their pulmonary hypertension program.