Management & Team

Murali Ramaswamy, MD

CEO & President

Co-founder, board member, & partner

ACRP-PI certified (Fall 2016); CRCP Certified (2017)

Dr. Murali Ramaswamy was instrumental to the founding vision for PulmonIx and serves as its current President and CEO. Following his graduation from medical school in India, he accepted a fellowship at the University of Iowa. He then served briefly as an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego before relocating to Greensboro in 2008, where he currently serves as a pulmonary and critical care clinician with LeBauer Health Care and Cone Health System. Dr. Ramaswamy holds board certifications in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Palliative Medicine. On the clinical front, Dr. Ramaswamy played a key leadership role in several system-wide health quality initiatives, from improving packed red cell transfusion practices in the intensive care unit to initiating and implementing palliative care project in the intensive care unit and transforming Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary (COPD) practices within the health system. 

Efforts in the COPD project led to national recognition of Cone Health System for COPD care. On the research front, he has extensive experience in both basic sciences and clinical research, with several publications in the field of COPD and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). He serves as a national steering committee member for the PFF, member of Cone Health research advisory board, and heads the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) program at LeBauer HealthCare. Prior to this, he published the first outcomes study of Lupus in India and was awardee of the best resident research award during his residency. During his fellowship years in Iowa, he received the NIH KO8 and Parker B Francis Foundation trainee grant award to study airway biology and respiratory virus. In addition, he has been a Principal and co-Investigator in many sponsored trials that contributed to seminal publications in the field of anticoagulation, pulmonary fibrosis, etc. Before joining PulmonIx, he was the Assistant Executive Director of Piedmont Respiratory Research Foundation, where he helped with operations and served as an investigator in several clinical trials.

Patrick Wright, MD

Co-founder, board member, & partner

ACRP-PI certified (Spring 2017)

Dr. Wright was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and attended Vanderbilt University for undergraduate and medical school. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, he came back to Vanderbilt University for his Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship. There, his research interest was focused on Severe Sepsis and Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome. During this time, he produced numerous publications focused on the physiology and molecular pathways involved in Sepsis and ARDS. In 1998, he began his private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana before joining LeBauer Healthcare in 1995. He served as the president of LeBauer Healthcare from 1999 to 2005, where he then became the Division Chair of LeBauer Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep/Allergy Division of LeBauer healthcare. He has served as the Chairman of many committees within the Cone Health System and is the Chairman of the Quality Committee of ACO Triad HealthCare Network. He currently serves as the Vice President and Chief Patient Safety Officer with Cone Health. He founded Piedmont Respiratory Research Foundation, which helped coordinate industry-sponsored, NIH funded, and ARDSNET trials in pulmonary and critical care in Greensboro, NC.

Clinton Young, MD

Partner

Dr. Young received his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia before completing a residency and fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Arizona Health Sciences in Tuscon, Arizona, respectively. He was a partner with Greensboro Chest Disease and Allergy Associates before coming to LeBauer Healthcare to practice Pulmonary Medicine, Sleep Medicine, and Allergy/Immunology. He has an extensive outpatient practice and serves as the only allergist in LeBauer Healthcare.

Rakesh Alva, MD

Partner

Dr. Alva graduated from Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital in Bombay, India prior to starting his post graduate medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. After completing his training he became board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. After working in Orangeburg, South Carolina he joined LeBauer Healthcare in 2008 as a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician. He is the director of the Electronic ICU (eLink) for Cone Health and also practices sleep medicine in addition to pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is a co-investigator on several clinical trials in Greensboro in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

Robert Byrum, MD, PhD

Partner

Dr. Byrum received his B.A., M.D, and PhD all from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. After finishing his extensive training there he went to the University of Virginia for residency and then moved on to the University of Colorado Medical Center for training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. As a student and fellow he authored numerous papers focused on the role of 5-Lipoxygenase Activating Protein in inflammation and leukotriene production. After completing his fellowship he joined LeBauer Healthcare as a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician. In clinical practice he has performed hundreds of electro-navigational and endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopies. He is a co-investigator and Principle Investigator in several COPD and thoracic oncology trials.

The Team in Action