Biography

Peter Dicpinigaitis, MD, is professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. He is a faculty member of the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, and is the founder and director of the Montefiore Cough Center, one of the few specialty centers in the world exclusively committed to the evaluation and management of patients with chronic cough. Dr Dicpinigaitis received his undergraduate education at New York University (NYU), graduating summa cum laude with a degree in biochemistry. He obtained his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine, and remained at NYU­Bellevue for internal medicine residency training. He completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, immediately after which he came to Einstein/Montefiore. In addition to experience in all aspects of clinical medicine within the spectrum of pulmonary and critical care, a major focus of Dr Dicpinigaitis's clinical research for more than 2 decades has been in the area of cough. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on cough, and is considered an authority on the performance of cough challenge studies in clinical research. He served as a co-author on cough management guidelines published by the American College of Chest Physicians and the European Respiratory Society, and is the founder and chairman of the biannual American Cough Conference. Dr Dicpinigaitis also serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal lung.

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