The RIGID & Robotics: Hands-on Course in Interventional Pulmonology - September 18, 2026 

Learn More & Register >> https://learn.houstonmethodist.org/RIGID-2026

September 18, 2026  |  Houston, TX US  
 

Program Director:
Tarek Dammad, MD, D-AABIP
Director, Academic Interventional Pulmonology
Houston Methodist Hospital

Program Co-Director:
Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS, MBA, FCCP
Chief, Section of Interventional Pulmonology, University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland

 

Faculty

Michela Bezzi, MD, PhD
Interventional Pulmonologist
Chief, Pulmonary Department
University Hospital, ASST Spedali Civili
Brescia, Italy

Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez, MD, PhD
Former WABIP Chair
Clínica Corachan
Barcelona, Spain

Colin Gillespie, MD
Section Head, Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Catherine Oberg, MD, D-AABIP
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Audra Schwalk, MD, D-AABIP
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Sonali Sethi, MD, D-AABIP
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Ray Chihara, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery
Houston Methodist Hospital

Warren Naselsky, MD
Thoracic Surgery
Houston Methodist Hospital

Fernando Santa Cruz, MD, D-AABIP
Houston Methodist Hospital