PTE Program

Patient's Guide to UCSD & San Diego

Referring Physician's Resource

The PTE Team

UCSD and the PTE Procedure

What is PTE?

Who is a Candidate?

 If you are a physician referring a patient to UCSD for PTE, the following information is provided to assist you in making the referral as quickly and easily as possible.

Please provide the following patient information to the UCSD PTE team during the referral process:

• Medical Summary
• Radiology studies, including CT, lung scans, chest X-rays (Please send original films or copies)

For your convenience, a secure form for referring patient information is available online. Click here to view the Specialty Referral Form. 

UCSD’s PTE team invites referring physicians to remain involved in their patients’ care while being treated at UCSD. You may contact the PTE physicians via email, or through their administrative assistants:

Dr. William Auger bauger@ucsd.edu Mailing Address: UCSD Thornton Hospital 9300 Campus Point Drive, MC 7381 Pulmonary Vascular Center La Jolla, CA  92037 Administrative Assistant to Dr. Auger: Sue Brick (858) 657-7140 sbrick@ucsd.edu	Dr. Stuart Jamieson sjamieson@ucsd.edu Mailing Address: UCSD Medical Center 200 West Arbor Drive, MC 8892 San Diego, CA  92103-8892 Administrative Assistant to Dr. Jamieson: Stacey Brumley (619) 543-7478 sbrumley@ucsd.edu
Dr. Peter Fedullo pfedullo@ucsd.edu Administrative Assistant to Dr. Fedullo: Sabrina Espinosa (858) 657-7134 sespinosa@ucsd.edu	Dr. Kim Kerr kmkerr@ucsd.edu Administrative Assistant to Dr. Kerr: Sue Brick (858) 657-7140 sbrick@ucsd.edu
Dr. Hyong (Nick) Kim h33kim@ucsd.edu Administrative Assistant to Dr. Kim: Annette Whalen (858) 657-7135 awhalen@ucsd.edu	Dr. Michael Madani mmadani@ucsd.edu Administrative Assistant to Dr. Madani: Armida Mireles (619) 543-6133 amireles@ucsd.edu
Dr. Victor Test vtest@ucsd.edu Administrative Assistant to Dr. Test: Sue Brick (858) 657-7140 sbrick@ucsd.edu