Allen Cole Burks, MD

Specialty Areas: Interventional Bronchoscopy, Pleural Diseases

Chronology: BS: University of Central Arkansas; Conway, AR (2002); MD: Saint Louis University; St. Louis, MO (2007); Family Medicine Residency: Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO (2010); Internal Medicine Residency: Georgetown University; Washington, DC (2012); Instructor of Medicine: University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD (2013); Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (2016); Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (2017)

Clinical Interests:

1. Peripheral lung nodule diagnosis and treatment
2. Lung cancer staging
3. Benign and Malignant Pleural Disease
4. Benign and Malignant Airway Disease
5. Management of Central Airway Obstruction

Research Interest:

1. Transbronchial imaging and sampling of peripheral lung lesions
2. Translational biology and treatment of pleural effusions
3. Endo/transbronchial therapeutics
4. Granulomatous disease in the lung