Medicine Grand Rounds 11/1/2024: “Why Am I Short of Breath? An Introduction to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing” Zachary Fulkerson, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Dr. Fulkerson is a native of Western Kentucky and grew up in a small town. He pursued undergraduate medical education at the University of Kentucky where he also completed a PhD in physiology. After completing his PhD and MD, Dr. Fulkerson moved to Indianapolis with his wife and did residency training in internal medicine and subsequent fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care.
Dr. Fulkerson is now faculty in the division of pulmonary and critical care. He specializes in pulmonary hypertension and exercise physiology. He has published on the manifestations of metabolic myopathies on exercise testing. He has spoken locally nationally about exercise testing in the general pulmonary patient and patients with pulmonary hypertension.