About Michael J. Stephen MD
A graduate of Brown University and Boston University Medical School, Dr. Michael J Stephen is an accomplished academic, researcher, and clinician in pulmonary medicine. Over the past two decades he has studied advanced end-stage lung diseases and worked with patients at diverse locales, including a Massachusetts prison hospital and a pediatric HIV clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an associate professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where he is the director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis program, is the leader of numerous clinical trials, and was most recently on the front line caring for COVID-19 patients.