Core Faculty
Program Director
Dr. Miles currently serves on the Education committee for the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and is immediate past-chair of the CHEST Training and Transitions Committee. He is also the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the journal CHEST Pulmonary.
Dr. Miles’s scholarly interests include implementation and effectiveness of educational curricula, clinical quality improvement through education, and creating resources for education in pulmonary and critical care medicine. His clinical interests are in general pulmonary and critical care medicine, advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, and rare and interstitial lung disease.
Dr. Miles is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious CHEST Early Career Clinician Educator award and has been recognized as a Distinguished CHEST Educator each year from 2018 through 2024. At Wake Forest, Dr. Miles received the first Edward F. Haponik Fellows’ teaching award and has been chosen several times as a Master Teacher by the Wake Forest Internal Medicine residents. He is currently chair of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Brooks Scholarship in Academic Medicine selection committee.
Chad Marion, MD
Christina Bellinger, MD
Dr. Bellinger joined our faculty in 2012 and is currently the director of clinical bronchoscopy services. A board-certified interventional pulmonologist, she maintains a busy clinical practice in routine, advanced diagnostic, and interventional pulmonology. Her clinical and research interests include evaluation of bronchoscopic techniques, molecular diagnosis of lung cancer, and healthcare disparities in lung cancer screening.
Clark Files, MD, Section Chief
Dr. Files joined our faculty in 2011 and is currently the section head for pulmonary, critical care, allergy and immunologic diseases. He is the site principal investigator for the NIH-funded PETAL network in addition to other trials funded by both NIH and industry. His clinical and research interests include ARDS recovery, critical-illness related muscle dysfunction, and testing new therapeutic strategies for critically ill patients. As co-director of the Wake Forest Critical Illness, Injury, and Recovery Research Center he helps direct critical care research activities of the health system.
Jessica Palakshappa, MD
William Mariencheck, MD
Dr. Mariencheck joined Wake Forest back in 2019. He came to Wake Forest after 19 years of work in a large physician owned private practice, multi-specialty group out of a large hospital in western Tennessee.