GET TO KNOW YOUR LEADERSHIP
Q&A With Alexander O. Sy, MD, MBA, FCCP
Pulmonary Physiology and Rehabilitation Section Vice-Chair
CHEST member since 1993
August 22, 2024
Where do you work?
I currently am a full-time staff physician at the Loma Linda Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California and Professor at the Pulmonary, Critical Care, Hyperbaric, and Sleep Medicine division of the Loma Linda University Medical School. I also hold a position as one of the Associate Program Directors for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.
What are your research interests?
I am interested in research related to physiologic applications to pulmonary, critical care, and sleep conditions. I am particularly interested in how to use this knowledge to implement policies to best help our patients.
What led you to join your Network?
I have always been interested in physiology ever since medical school. This is the main reason I went into pulmonary and critical care as a specialty. It is because of this that I got involved with the original Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation NetWork, now known as the Diffuse Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Network.
What achievements are you most proud of contributing to within your Network?
I am working on a new guideline proposal that will hopefully get accepted by CHEST.
How has being in a Network benefited your career and your experience as a CHEST member?
Through the Network I have had the chance to meet and work with the best physiologists in our field.
What are your hobbies?
I like to read mostly business management or health law books (habit carried over from my MBA and MSL school). I like to travel and eat and cook and play golf.
What is something you cannot live without (after family and friends)?
Asian food.
Is there anything else you'd like to share with your Network peers?
With my experience in business school and law school, I am interested in how we can use our evidence-based, scientific knowledge and implement this in health care policies to best help our patients now and in the future.
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