Dr. Timothy I Morgenthaler M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler practices Pulmonology in Rochester, MN. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Morgenthaler manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chyloptysis in adults: presentation, recognition, and differential diagnosis.
- Obstructive lingual thyroid causing sleep apnea: a case report and review of the literature.
- Use of ambulatory overnight oximetry to investigate sleep apnea in a general internal medicine practice.
- Trousseau syndrome and the unknown cancer: use of positron emission tomographic imaging in a patient with a paraneoplastic syndrome.
- Bronchoesophageal fistula due to broncholithiasis: a case series.
- Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.
- Effect of shifting costs to patients on specialty evaluation for sleep disorders.
- Treatment of complex sleep apnea syndrome: a retrospective comparative review.
- Practice parameters for the medical therapy of obstructive sleep apnea.
- Complex sleep apnea syndrome: is it a unique clinical syndrome?
- Moving beyond empiric continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) trials for central sleep apnea: a multi-modality titration study.
- Natural course of complex sleep apnea--a retrospective study.
- Catathrenia.
- Management plan to reduce risks in perioperative care of patients with presumed obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
- Efficacy of adaptive servoventilation in treatment of complex and central sleep apnea syndromes.
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
Fellowships
- Fellow - Thoracic Diseases and Critical Care Medicine: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Experience & Accolades
- Member2009 - 2014Secretary-Treasurer, American Sleep Medicine Foundation
- Member2009 - 2014 Secretary-Treasurer, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Director 2008 - 2014 Board of Directors, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Member Standards of Practice Committee -- Chair
- Member2005 - 2008 American Academy of Sleep Medicine
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