Suchitra Pilli, MB,BS

Department

Medicine

Position

Assistant Professor

Publications

• Journal of thoracic disease
  Moulton Nathaniel, Inter- and intra-observer variability of radial-endobronchial ultrasound image interpretation for peripheral pulmonary lesions
  16:1, p. 450 - 456 2024
• Chest
  Purta PATRYK, FULLY COVERED SELF-EXPANDABLE METAL Y STENT IS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR TRACHEO-MEDIASTINAL FISTULA
  164:4, p. A5323 2023
• Chest
  Germano NICHOLAS, LOBAR AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION CAUSED BY GRANULATION TISSUE IN BRONCHOSCOPIC LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION ZEPHYR VALVE PATIENT: A VERY RARE COMPLICATION
  164:4, p. A5363 - A5364 2023
• Chest
  Kashikar RIMZHIM, RARE PRESENTATION OF ACUTE CARDIAC TAMPONADE WITHOUT RIGHT VENTRICULAR COLLAPSE: A LIFE-THREATENING SEQUELAE OF END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE
  164:4, p. A2636 - A2637 2023
• Chest
  Dehal NAVDEEP K, BRAIN ABSCESS DUE TO PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION: A LIFE-THREATENING CLINICAL COMPLICATION
  164:4, p. A4590 - A4591 2023
• Chest
  Mohindra NEIL, CURIOUS CASE OF WALDENSTROM MACROGLOBULINEMIA WITH IDIOPATHIC LYMPHOCYTIC PLEURAL EFFUSION: RELATED OR NOT?
  164:4, p. A4861 2023
• Chest
  Dehal NAVDEEP K, BRONCHOPULMONARY CARCINOID AND TYPE 1 MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA (MEN)
  162:4, p. A2158 - A2158 2022
• Jagan Nikhil, Uncovering Objective Improvements in Physical Activity Using Digital Actigraphy after Therapeutic Thoracentesis 2022
• Case Reports in Critical Care
  Alali Yaman, Right Ventricular Clot in Transit in a Patient with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia Successfully Treated with Thrombolytics
  2022 2022
• Chest
  Abbasi Mohammed, REFINING RADIAL EBUS: CHARACTERIZING IMAGING INTERPRETATION AND PROPOSAL FOR A STANDARDIZED GRADING SYSTEM
  158:4, p. A1936 - A1937 2020
• Chest
  Chung Jacqueline, PULMONARY VEIN THROMBOSIS: A RARE ENTITY IN THE SETTING OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS
  158:4, p. A2074 - A2074 2020
• Critical care medicine
  Pilli Suchitra, 1273
  42, p. A1657 2014
• Critical care medicine
  Pilli Suchitra, 298
  42, p. A1432 2014

Presentations

• IGG4-RELATED LUNG DISEASE MASKING LUNG CANCER, Rosina Schiff, Suchitra Pilli, et al, Case Poster presentation at National Conference, American College of Chest physicians, CHEST 2022 Oct 17, 2022, Abstract accepted in June 2022 2022
• BRONCHOPULMONARY CARCINOID AND TYPE 1 MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA (MEN) - 10/18/2022, 12:25 pm - 1:25 pm, Navdeep Dehal, Suchitra Pilli, Case Oral presentation at National Conference, American College of Chest physicians, CHEST 2022 Oct 17, 2022, Abstract accepted in June 2022 2022
• Severe Emphysema and Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction, 10/4/22 , Midlands Hospital Primary Care Provider Meeting - Invited Speaker 2022
• Zephyr Valves: A New Treatment for Severe Emphysema, Oral Presentation for Pulmonologists in Omaha, 8/22/22, Invited Speaker for Pulmonx for Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction, The Peregrine Hotel, Omaha 2022
• Pulmonary Nodules - Pulmonary Boot Camp presentation 7/22/22 2022
• Severe Emphysema and Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction, 7/18/22 , Lakeside Hospital Primary Care Provider Meeting - Invited Speaker 2022
• Pulmonary Core Curriculum Lecture: Pulmonary infections VI: mediastinitis, 2/28/2022 2022
• Pulmonary Core Curriculum Lecture: Lung cancer I: genetics and natural history + Lung cancer III: lung tumors other than bronchogenic carcinoma, 1/31/2022 2022
• Fully covered SEMS are an option for Broncho-pleural fistula, Michael J. Kaster, Zachary Depew, Suchitra Pilli, poster presented at AABIP National Conference, August 2021 and published in Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology supplement, 2021 2021
• Invited faculty Speaker: State of the Art Evidence in Covid 19 and Health care Advocacy, July 31st,2021 Indian Medical Association, IMA Telangana, India 2021
• Invited Faculty Speaker: Yashoda Hospital Interventional Pulmonology CME Program, Invited Faculty for Hands on Bronchoscopy Simulation Training, Hyderabad, India: State of the Art in Interventional Pulmonology, July 25, 2021 2021
• Trends in Interventional Pulmonology, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary forum, contributed to oral presentation, 06/03/2021 2021
• Respiratory Therapy Department Grand Rounds: Severe Emphysema and Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction, 02/18/2021 2021
• CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center Bergan Mercy, ECMO Training Course: Pre-ECMO Procedures, January 26, 2021 2021
• Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Necrotizing fasciitis: Identification and Management combined Pulmonary Critical Care and Infectious Disease Presentation, 11/4/2020 2020
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Department Grand Rounds: Advances in the Approach to Solitary Pulmonary Nodule,10/26/2020, Creighton University School of Medicine, 2020. 2020
• Pulmonary Venous Thrombosis, a rare entity, in the setting of Ulcerative Colitis, Jacqueline Chung, Zachary DePew, Suchitra Pilli, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska Accepted for Poster Presentation, CHEST 2020 2020
• Refining Radial EBUS: Characterizing Imaging Interpretation and Proposal for a Standardized Grading System, Nathaniel Moulton, Suchitra Pilli, Alexander Chen et al, Poster Presentation, CHEST 2020 2020
• Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Advances in Lung Cancer: CT Scan Screening, Stereotactic Radiation, Systemic Therapy, 12/18/2019, Zahra, Hadi, Pilli, Suchitra, Silberstein, Peter, Creighton University School of Medicine, 12/18/2019 2019
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Department Grand Rounds: A flood of Blood in the Airway: Management of Airway Bleeding in the Modern Era, 10/28/2019, Creighton University School of Medicine, 2019 2019
• A Flood of Blood in The Airway: Management of Hemoptysis in the Modern Era, Pulmonary and Critical Care Grand Rounds, June 2018, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. 2018
• Suchitra Pilli, Brandy J Mc Kelvy B, Benign Nodular Adenomatous Hyperplasia of the Thyroid: An Unusual Cause of Pleural Effusion? Dept of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas McGovern Medical School. Poster Presentation at American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/18-23/2018, San Diego, CA 2018
• Suchitra Pilli, Praveen Vijhani, Sujith V Cherian, Rosa M Estrada-Y-Martin, Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (PLCH): A rare cause of chronic cough, Dept of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas McGovern Medical School. Poster Presentation at American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/1823/2018, San Diego, CA. 2018

Industry/Corporation

• Co- Investigator (Robert Plambeck MD, Suchitra Pilli, MD) - Grifols GC2006 clinical trial – 2020 to present - Grifols Therapeutics LLC / “A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label Parallel Group Pilot Study to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of High Dose Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) plus Standard Medical Treatment (SMT) versus SMT alone in Subjects with COVID-19 Requiring Admission to the Intensive Care Unit – STUDY CLOSED

• Co-Investigator – Time to Improvement in Symptoms in Pleural Effusions: TIME TO MOVE STUDY, IRB Approved, Enrollment ongoing, Nikhil Jagan, MD, Suchitra Pilli, MD, Zachary DePew, MD – STUDY CLOSED, Abstract Published

Other

• Principal Investigator, Creighton University site, Multi center trial, A Phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, dose-ranging study evaluating LTI-01 (single-chain urokinase plasminogen activator, scuPA) in patients with infected, non-draining pleural effusions - Study closed, data being analyzed.

• Principal investigator - Quality Improvement Project - Critical Care Equipment Access Improvement Project, Jason Lambrecht (Fellow), Kathleen McGill, Suchitra Pilli. Creighton University School of Medicine – August 2020 - Jan 2021 – improved access to critical care equipment in the ICU’s across all CHI hospitals in Omaha - Completed

Awards

• Physician Enterprise Nominee - Innovation Category
  Commonspirit Health Annual Physician Enterprise Vision Award Nominee for ‘’Innovation’’ Category, Feb 2023
  Commonspirit Health
• Lung Valves Allow Some Emphysema Patients in Nebraska To Do More
  Article in Omaha World Herald, Recognized for innovative bronchoscopic Lung valve Program for Emphysema at Creighton University, 2022. ‘Lung Valves Allow some Emphysema Patients in Nebraska to do More, Aug 2022
  Omaha World Herald
• Provider Kudos Award
  CHI Immanuel Hospital, Omaha, Received Provider Kudos Award – 06/22/22 - awarded by Senior Leadership Team, CHI Health Immanuel
  Immanuel Hospital
• ‘The Conscious Physician’ Leadership Program
  ‘The Conscious Physician’ Leadership Program, CHI Health, ‘The Conscious Physician Leadership Development Program’, CHI Health, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2021 to May 2022
  CHI Health
• Recognition: ‘Top Doctor' Omaha edition – July 2021
  Recognized in ‘Top Doctor, 2021 – Omaha edition – July 2021

Consulting

• CHEST ACCP (American College of Chest Physicians) National Conference Fellow and Resident Abstract and Case Report Reviewer
  Case Report Reviewer
  CHEST ACCP (American College of Chest Physicians) National Conference Fellow and Resident Abstract and Case Report Reviewer May - June 2023
  CHEST
  2023 - 2023
• CHEST Faculty moderator for oral presentation sessions
  Faculty moderator for oral presentation sessions
  Faculty moderator for oral presentation sessions, CHEST National Conference 10/2022
  CHEST
  2022 - 2022
• CHEST Conference Fellow and Resident Abstract and Case Report Reviewer
  Case Report Reviewer
  CHEST Conference Fellow and Resident Abstract and Case Report Reviewer 10/2020
  CHEST
  2020 - 2022