A graduate of Brown University and Boston University Medical School, Dr. Michael J Stephen is an accomplished academic, researcher, and clinician in pulmonary medicine. Over the past two decades he has studied advanced end-stage lung diseases and worked with patients at diverse locales, including a Massachusetts prison hospital and a pediatric HIV clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Pulmonary Physician at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.