Cancers Treated:
Specializing In:
- Hospital Pulmonary Medicine
- Critical Care Medicine
- Pulmonary Function Testing
- Pulmonary Nodule Management
- Sarcoidosis
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Asthma
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Pulmonary Infections
- Chronic Cough
- Smoking Cessation
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pleural Effusions/Pleural Disease
Research Interests:
- Sepsis
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Nodule Diagnostics and Management
- Smoking Cessation
- Critical Care Quality Improvement
Biography
I am a Western New York native Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. I have been practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in Western New York for more than 14 years.
Positions
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Assistant Professor of Oncology
- Staff Physician
- Department of Internal Medicine
State University of New York at Buffalo
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Background
Education and Training
- 2000-2004 - MD - State University of New York at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Residency
- 2004-2007 - Internal Medicine - University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Fellowship
- 2007-2010 - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Board Certification
- Internal Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
- Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine
- Critical Care Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
Professional Memberships
- American Thoracic Society
- American College of Chest Physicians
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
Professional Experience
- 2010-2024 - Physician - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Catholic Health System, Buffalo, NY
- 2022-2024 - System Director for Critical Care Medicine, Catholic Health System, Buffalo, NY
- 2019-2024 - Board Member, Catholic Medical Partners, Buffalo, NY
- 2016-2024 - Member, Catholic Health System Medical Executive Committee, Buffalo, NY
- 2020-2022 - President of Medical Staff, Catholic Health System, Buffalo NY
- 2018-2020 - Medical Director, Catholic Health System Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Buffalo, NY
Honors & Awards
- Fellow - American College of Chest Physicians
- Sister Mary Mechtilde Award - Kenmore Mercy Hospital Foundation
Publications
El Solh, A.A., Brewer, T., Okada, M., Bashir, O., Gough, M. “Indicators of Recurrent Hospitalization for Pneumonia in the Elderly.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Vol. 52, Issue 12, Page 2010. December 2004.
Gough, MS, and White, RJ. “Sildenafil Therapy is Associated with Improved Hemodynamics in Liver Transplantation Candidates with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.” Liver Transplantation. Vol. 15, Issue 1, Page 30. January 2009.
Morgan, MA, Frasier LM, Stewart JC, Mack, CM, Gough, MS, Graves, BT, Apostolakos, MJ, Dooling, KP, Darling, DC, Frampton, MW, Pietropaoli, AP. “Artery-to-Vein Differenced in Nitric Oxide Metabolites are Diminished in Sepsis.” Critical Care Medicine. Vol 38(4). Page 1069. April 2010
Gough, MS, Morgan, MA, Pietropaoli, AP,et al. “The Ratio of Arginine to Dimethylarginines is Reduced in Sepsis and Associated with Mortality.” Critical Care Medicine. Vol 39(6), Page 1351. March 2011.
Wexler, O, Gough, MS, Pietropaoli, AP, et al. “Reduced Brachial Artery Reactivity in Patients with Severe Sepsis: An Observational Study” Crtical Care, Vol 16(2), Page R38. March 2012.
Wexler, O, Gough, MS, Pietropaoli, AP et al “Methionine Metabolites in Patients with Sepsis.” Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. Bol 33(1), page 33-47. Jan 2018. Epub: 2 Sept 2016.
Tsang, G, Gough, MS, Pietropaoli, AP et al. “Bioavailable Estradiol Concentrations are Elevated and Predict Mortality in Septic Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study” Critical Care, Vol 20, Article 335. October 2016.