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Specialties
Critical care medicine, Pulmonary and respiratory disease care
Languages
English
Biography
Ajai Dandekar, M.D., Ph.D., is a board certified physician at the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic and ICU at UW Medical Center and a UW assistant professor of Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor of Microbiology.Dr. Dandekar specializes in the care of patients with the genetic disease cystic fibrosis. He maintains an active laboratory research program. Cystic fibrosis is a complicated, multi-organ system disease, and he enjoys finding treatments that allow our adult patients with cystic fibrosis to live full lives.
Dr. Dandekar earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is triple board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. His clinical and research interests include cystic fibrosis, critical care medicine, the sociality of bacteria and the relationship between bacterial sociality and clinical diseases.
Personal Interests
In his free time Dr. Dandekar enjoys running and traveling.
Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at UWMC
1959 NE Pacific St., 3rd Floor Seattle, WA 98195Pulmonary and respiratory disease care
Bronchoscopy Suite at UWMC
1959 NE Pacific Street, 3rd Floor, Surgical Pavilion Room 3104C Seattle, WA 98195Biopsy (fine needle aspiration), Bronchoalveolar lavage, Endobronchial biopsy, Endobronchial ultrasound
UW - Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Fellowship, 2013
UW - Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Fellowship, 2011, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
UW - Division of General Internal Medicine
Residency, 2008, Internal Medicine
UW - Division of General Internal Medicine
Internship, 2006, Internal Medicine
University of Iowa
Ph.D, 2005
Univ. of Iowa, Office of Student Affairs
Medical education, 2005
Board Certifications
- Critical Care Medicine, 2011, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Pulmonary Disease, 2010, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine, 2008, American Board of Internal Medicine