Summary
Dr. Erhan Dincer is the PACCS Division Director, Chief of the Medical Subspecialty Service Line, Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs at the Department of Medicine and the Director of Interventional Pulmonary Program at M Health Fairview. After joining the UMN faculty in 2011, he developed the Lung Nodule Program and, one year later, the multidisciplinary IP program in collaboration with Thoracic Surgery, Interventional Radiology, and Medical Oncology. Dr. Dincer holds an MD from Istanbul University where he also finished a 4-year Internal Medicine Residency. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency with a research year working on alveolar epithelial cell apoptosis as a pathway to interstitial lung diseases at UIC/Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. After a year of chief residency at the Michael Reese Hospital, he completed a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He also holds an executive master’s in healthcare administration from the UMN School of Public Health. Dr. Dincer is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in minimally invasive procedures in diagnosing and treating lung diseases. His clinical focus is in interventional pulmonary and critical care medicine and research focus areas are medical device development and improvement in minimally invasive diagnostic techniques.
