Michael S. Schechter, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University and Children's Hospital of Richmond; Director of the VCU Cystic Fibrosis Center; Director of the VCU Community Asthma Program; Attending pulmonologist in the Muscular Dystrophy Program and the Sickle Cell Program.   Immediate Past Chair of the Section of Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP); Associate Editor, AAP Handbook on Pediatric Pulmonology; Previous Chair of the Pediatric Program Committee of the American Thoracic Society.

Experienced in all kinds of neonatal and pediatric respiratory disease, including Cystic Fibrosis, Chronic Respiratory Failure, Pneumonia, empyema, hemoptysis, Ventilator, Asthma, airway obstruction, bronchomalacia, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), hypoxemia, aspiration, interstitial lung disease, respiratory arrest, ciliary dyskinesia, bronchiectasis, obstructive sleep apnea. Previous experience in general pediatric private practice