Thaddeus Bartter, M.D., Lung Cancer Specialist, Joins UAMS

By Nate Hinkel

Prior to joining UAMS, Bartter was at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey where he was associate professor and director of the Pulmonary Diagnostic Laboratory and medical director of Respiratory Therapy.

Bartter’s clinical interests include: lung cancer; management of pleural disease; bronchoscopy in the ICU; chronic cough (diagnosis and treatment); the clinical approach to chronic dyspnea; issues in pulmonary function testing; cardiopulmonary exercise testing; interventional bronchoscopy; airway obstruction debulking and stent placement; endobronchial ultrasound and mediastinal lymph node sampling; malignant pleural effusion; and medical pleuroscopy.

He received his medical degree from Tufts University of Medicine in Boston. He completed his residency at Jamaica Plain V.A. Hospital in Massachusetts, and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester.

Bartter’s board certifications include the American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.

UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a new 540,000-square-foot hospital, six centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has 2,652 students and 733 medical residents. Its centers of excellence include the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS’ Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com.