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Vaping and Marijuana: What Is the Impact On Our Lungs?

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Adults
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In collaboration with Stamford Health: Connecticut's recent legalization of marijuana and recent popularity of vaping have tremendous impacts on our lung health. Join Dr. Michael Bernstein, Associate Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care at Stamford Hospital, for a presentation on potential side effects that we need to know.
 

The event will begin at 7pm, with light refreshments being served at 6:30pm.

Dr. Bernstein has a board-certification in interventional pulmonology, a subspecialty within pulmonary medicine focused on bronchoscopy, lung cancer, pleural diseases and other procedures for the lung. He is the Co-Clinical Director for the Lung Cancer Screening and Lung Nodule Program at Stamford Hospital. Dr. Bernstein is also the Associate Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care at Stamford Hospital. He has additional clinical interests in COPD and sleep apnea, as well as asthma and dyspnea in adolescents.

In 2015, he won the Melville Magida Award from the Fairfield County MedicalSociety given to the top doctor under the age of 40. He has been listed in Top Docs Fairfield County and Top Docs Connecticut continuously since 2014. Dr. Bernstein is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency at the Stamford Hospital and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in Stamford for Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.