Cookeville Regional Medical Center will expand advanced lung care with the addition of Interventional Pulmonologist Dr. Tanya Marshall to the Cookeville Regional Medical Group.
Hospital officials said Marshall specializes in minimally invasive procedures used to diagnose and treat lung conditions, including suspicious nodules, airway obstructions and enlarged lymph nodes. Her arrival brings additional specialized diagnostic and treatment options to patients in the Upper Cumberland.
Marshall offers robotic bronchoscopy to examine lung nodules and endobronchial ultrasound-guided bronchoscopy to evaluate enlarged lymph nodes in the chest. She also performs diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy, including tissue sampling and the removal of foreign objects from the airways.
Officials said other procedures include rigid bronchoscopy to treat airway obstructions, airway stent placement and removal, and balloon bronchoplasty to widen narrowed airways. Marshall also provides endobronchial valve placement for lung volume reduction.
Additional services include ultrasound-guided biopsies through the esophagus, needle biopsies of lymph nodes above the collarbone, and diagnostic and therapeutic pleuroscopy. Marshall also performs tunneled pleural catheter placement and percutaneous tracheostomy.
The release said Marshall earned her medical degree from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados before completing her internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic Akron General in Ohio. She completed a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and an interventional pulmonology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Cookeville Regional Medical Center Pulmonology and Critical Care is located at 145 West Fourth Street in Cookeville. Appointments can be scheduled by calling 931-783-2143 or visiting the hospital’s website.