Ka Ling (Karin) Cheung, MD, FCCP, FAASM, a Pulmonologist with Bass Medical Group
Get to know Pulmonologist Dr. Ka Ling (Karin) Cheung, who serves patients in California.
Dr. Cheung serves as a pulmonary and sleep medicine specialist with Bass Medical Group. She sees patients of all ages out of the office in Walnut Creek, California.
At the John Muir Health Walnut Creek Medical Center, she is the current Medical Director for Respiratory Care and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services. She is also affiliated with Concord Medical Center.
Her current interests include sleep disorders, sleep studies, interstitial lung disease, advances in COPD/asthma, and pulmonary hypertension.
Throughout her academic career, Dr. Cheung received her undergraduate education and medical school training at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. She then completed her medical residency at Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and her pulmonary, critical care and sleep fellowship at Yale.
From 1997 until 2001, Dr. Cheung began working in pulmonary and sleep medicine at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford, Delaware. There, she directed the Pulmonary Function Lab and Respiratory Care Department.
From 2001 until 2003, she was a pulmonologist/intensivist/sleep physician with Abington Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates in Abington, Pennsylvania. She then relocated to California, where she joined the Respiratory Medical Group (now part of Bass Medical Group) and the John Muir medical staff.
With a commitment to her profession, Dr. Cheung is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine.
In addition, she is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a member of the American Thoracic Society, and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Pulmonology is a medical specialty that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract. A pulmonologist is an internal medicine physician who specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions and diseases that affect the lungs, bronchial tubes, and the respiratory system, including the nose, pharynx, and throat.
Outside of practicing medicine, Dr. Cheung enjoys playing golf, hiking, reading, nature photography, traveling, as well as listening to modern jazz and classical music. She speaks many languages, including English, Dutch, Chinese, German, and French.
Learn More about Dr. Ka Ling (Karin) Cheung:
Through her findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2532400-Ka-Ling-Cheung-Sleep-Medicine-Specialist or through Bass Medical Group, https://www.bassmedicalgroup.com/doctors/ka-ling-karin-cheung
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