About me
Peter Jeffrey Sloane, MD is Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (MUMH) and MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (MGSH). He was named a Top Doctor in Baltimore magazine for Intensivists/Critical Care, Pulmonary in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. Dr. Sloane was a prior National Institute of Health National Research Service Award recipient and was awarded the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in 1993 and 2006. Dr. Sloane was a site investigator for the National Institutes of Health's "ARDSNet" (acute respiratory distress syndrome network). He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and has contributed 15 peer-reviewed journal articles to the medical literature. He served as Chief of Staff at MUMH between 2008 and 2011 and was a member of the Board Directors at MUMH between 2008 and 2020.
Clinical areas of focus
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchoscopy
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Lung Mass
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Sleep Disorders
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Bronchitis
- Airway Disorders
- Airway Obstruction
- Airway Scarring
- Allergic Aspergillosis
- Allergic Pneumonitis
- Allergic Wheezing
- Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Asbestos Lung
- Aspiration Pneumonitis
- Asthma
- Asthmatic Bronchitis
- Atelectasis
- Autoimmune Pleuritis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchitis
- Bronchospasm
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Cough
- Chronic Lung Disease
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Chronic Respiratory Failure
- Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia
- Diaphragmatic Disorders
- Drug Induced Pulmonary Disease
- Dyspnea On Exertion
- Emphysema
- Empyema
- Exercise Intolerance
- Hemoptysis
- Hepatic Hydrothorax
- Hypercarbia
- Hypoventilation Syndrome
- Hypoxia
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Laryngotracheitis
- Lung Abscess
- Lung Disease
- Lung Infiltrate
- Lung Mass
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Occupational Lung Injury
- Pertussis
- Pleural Diseases
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Thickening
- Pleural Tuberculosis
- Pleurisy
- Pleuritic Pain
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonitis
- Post Infectious Cough
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Pulmonary Bullae
- Pulmonary Complications Of Neurological Diseases
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Granuloma
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Infections
- Pulmonary Nodule
- Pulmonary Sarcoid
- Radiation Pneumonitis
- Reactive Airway Disease
- Recurrent Lung Infections
- Restrictive Lung Disease
- Rheumatoid Lung
- Shortness Of Breath (SOB)
- Silicosis
- Sleep Disorders
- Smoker Cough
- Stridor
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
- Tracheal Mass
- Tracheal Stenosis
- Tracheobronchitis
- Tuberculosis
- Wheezing
Procedures I perform
- Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure
- Bronchoscopy
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
- Home Sleep Study
- Lung Cancer Screening
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Pulmonary And Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary Clearance For Surgery
- Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT)
- Pulmonary Therapy
- Spirometry
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracoscopy
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- CFBCBS EPO
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Cigna HealthSpring Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna HMO
- Open POS II
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Open EPO Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open HMO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- United Student Resources
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Tricare Prime
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- FIRST HEALTH
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital & Medical College (1991)
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (1991)
Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (1988)
Medical School: Cornell University College of Human Ecology (1985)
Awards
- 2015 Top Doctor, Baltimore magazine
- 2016 Top Doctor, Baltimore magazine
- 2017 Top Doctor, Baltimore magazine
- 2019 Top Doctor, Baltimore magazine
- 2020 Top Doctor, Baltimore magazine
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Sloane, PJ, MH Gee, JE Gottlieb, KH Albertine, SP Peters, JR Burns, G Machiedo, and JE Fish. A multicenter registry of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: physiology and outcome. Am. Rev. Resp. Dis. 146:419-426, 1992.
Sloane, PJ, TH Elsasser, JA Spath, Jr., KH Albertine, and MH Gee. Plasma tumor necrosis factor alpha during long term endotoxemia in awake sheep. J. Appl. Physiol. 73(5):1831-7, 1992.
Spath, JA, PJ Sloane, MH Gee, KH Albertine. Loss of endothelium-dependent vasodilation in the pulmonary vessels of sheep after prolonged endotoxin. J. Appl. Physiol. 76(1): 361-9, 1994.
Kane, GC, PJ Sloane, B McComb, B Chinn, JE Gottlieb. 'Missed' inhaled foreign body in an adult. Resp. Med. 88:551-4, 1994.
Perkowski, SZ, PJ Sloane, JA Spath, MH Gee. Pathophysiology of endotoxin-induced acute respiratory failure in sheep. Journal of Applied Physiology. 80(2):564-73, 1996.
Sohrabi, F, LA Mispireta, M Fiocco, LA Dibos, PC Buescher, PJ Sloane. Effects Of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting On Patient Outcome. Journal of Investigative Medicine 51:27-31, 2003.
Myers C, Sloane P, Buescher P. Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Risk Factors of Open-Heart Surgery Patients for the Development of Pleural Effusions Requiring Thoracentesis. AJRCCM 167:7, 2003.
Sloane, PJ, DeRenzo, E. The Case of Mr. A.B. The Journal of Clincial Ethics 18(4):399-401, 2008.
Enteral Omega-3 Fatty Acid, -Linolenic Acid,and Antioxidant Supplementationin Acute Lung Injury, Rice, et. al for the NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network, JAMA. 2011;306(14):1574-1581. Dr. Sloane served as Principle Investigator at the Medstar Union Memorial Hospital of Baltimore Study Site.
Initial Trophic vs Full Enteral Feeding in Patients With Acute Lung Injury, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials Network, JAMA. 2012;307(8) Dr. Sloane served as Principle Investigator at the Medstar Union Memorial Hospital of Baltimore Study Site.
Salahuddin F, Sloane P, Buescher P. Agarunov L, Sreeramoju D. A case of apical ballooning syndrome in a male with status asthmaticus; highlighting the role of B2 agonists in the pathophysiology of a reversible cardiomyopathy, Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2013, 3: 20530
Rosuvastatin for Sepsis-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Rice, et. al for the NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network, Truwitt, et. Al for the NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network, N Engl J Med 2014;370:2191-200. Dr. Sloane served as Principle Investigator at the Medstar Union Memorial Hospital of Baltimore Study Site.
Jin N, Sloane P. Evaluation of pure ground glass pulmonary nodule: a case report, Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2014, 4: 24562
Orgeron G, Pollard J, Pourmalek P, Sloane P. Catheter-Directed Low-Dose Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Treatment of Right Atrial Thrombus Caused by a Central Venous Catheter, Pharmacotherapy 2015;35(10):e153–e158)
Haque OI, Mahar S, Hussain S, Sloane P. Pharmacokinetic interaction between verapamil and ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir implications for the management of COVID-19 in patients with hypertension. BMJ Case Reports, 2023;16:e252677. doi:10.1136/bcr-2022-252677.