Dr. Alexander O. Sy

Alexander O Sy, MD, FCCP, FACP, FASM
Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine

Additional Titles
Facility/Department	Title
Palmetto Health Richland	Director, Sleep Diagnostics Center
	Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
	Chief, PHR Internal Medicine

Undergraduate:
University of the Philippines, BS, 1982

Medical School:
University of the Philippines College of Medicine, 1986

Residency:
St. Agnes Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, 1988-1991

Post-residency fellowships and other programs:

Critical Care Medicine, St. Louis University/St. John Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 1991-1993
Pulmonary Medicine, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993-1995

Board Certifications:

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1994-2004
ABIM-Pulmonary Medicine, 1996-2006; 2006-2016
ABIM-Critical Care Medicine, 1995-2005; 2005-2015
American Board of Sleep Medicine, 2001

Association Memberships:

Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
Fellow, American College of Physicians
Fellow, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Member, Society of Critical Care Medicine
Member, American Thoracic Society
Member, American College of Physician Executives

Initial USC Faculty Appointment Year: 2004

Academic Interests:

Dr. Sy's various academic interests include COPD, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing, Sleep Breathing Disorders, Line Sepsis, Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Prevention, Critical Care Nutrition, Computerized Physician Order Entry, Medical Informatics, and Medical Computer Simulators.

Research Interests and Projects:

Research interests for Dr. Sy include bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, ventilator associated pneumonia, sepsis, as well as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

See Publications via PubMed

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