Reducing COPD Rehospitilizations One Patient at a Time

After graduating with a degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, Dr. Wan graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and completed a residency and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Combined Pulmonary & Critical Care program. 

She is currently on faculty at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System where she attends in the medical intensive care unit, the inpatient and outpatient pulmonary services, and pulmonary rehabilitation program.  

Dr. Wan has been involved in research on the epidemiology, genetics, and genomics of COPD and chronic lung diseases, including the landmark COPDGene Study and has received research grants from the Parker B. Francis Foundation, Alpha-1 Foundation, and the Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development service.  In addition to clinical service and research, Dr. Wan has served as an invited speaker at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Thoracic Society, and Pri-Med education courses.

As Chief Quality Officer at Valley Medical Group, Dr. Tibb is responsible for directing clinical quality and performance improvement initiatives.  In addition to his role at Valley Medical Group, Dr. Tibb serves as The Valley Hospital's Director of Palliative Medicine. 

Dr. Tibb came to Valley from Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., where he served as Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and an Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in the hospital's pulmonary critical care and hospice/palliative care medicine departments. Dr. Tibb retains his title of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

After completing his residency in internal medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Dr. Tibb went on to complete fellowship training in multiple subspecialties at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y. He is now American board certified in pulmonary medicine, critical care, neurocritical care, palliative care/hospice medicine and internal medicine. Dr. Tibb is also fellowship trained in clinical quality and patient safety, as well as healthcare simulation.