Dr Michael Pritchett

Pulmonologist
Pinehurst Medical Clinic, USA

Biography
Dr Michael Pritchett is an advanced bronchoscopist who is board certified in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida. He then attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University where he simultaneously received his medical degree and a master’s degree in public health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at
Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, FL, and then his fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA.

Since completing fellowship, he has been in private practice with the Pinehurst Medical Clinic in Pinehurst, NC for over 10 years. He holds privileges at FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a 4-hospital system in central North Carolina. He serves as the Director of Thoracic Oncology and the Director of the Chest Center of the Carolinas, a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology clinic. He has previously served as the Medical
Director of Critical Care at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (40-ICU beds). He is active in multiple clinical trials as a principal investigator in advanced bronchoscopy, thoracic oncology, molecular pathology, COPD, asthma, and pulmonary arterial hypertension. He has been an author/co-author of multiple studies in these areas.

Dr Pritchett has most recently published his pioneering work on the use of intraoperative cone-beam CT (CBCT) to assist with the biopsy of peripheral nodules. This technique has been shown to significantly increase the diagnostic yield of guided bronchoscopy for small peripheral nodules. This innovative work with CBCT has led directly to being able to perform first-in-human trials with an FDA-approved device for bronchoscopic microwave ablation of peripheral lung tumours. Dr Pritchett has also been the first in the U.S. to perform robotic-assisted navigation bronchoscopy with the Intuitive Ion endoluminal robotic platform.