Michal Senitko, MD
Associate Professor
Department:
SOM-Medicine-PULM
Email:
msenitko@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 984-5650
Biography
I am section chief of Interventional Pulmonary and Co-director of Lung Cancer Screening Program. I have completed Pulmonary Critical Care fellowship at UMMC and Interventional Pulmonary fellowship at Yale University. I specialize in advanced minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic techniques related to lung cancer and benign airway diseases. My active research work focus on advances in therapeutic bronchoscopy for central airway obstruction and analysis of the response of upper airway mucosa to respiratory viruses.
Education
| Yale University School of Medicine, Interventional Pulmonary Medicine | 2016 |
| University of Mississippi Schoold of Medicine, MD, Pulmonary and critical Care Medicine | 2015 |
| University of Mississippi School of Medicine, MD, Internal Medicine | 2012 |
| First Faculty of Medicine Charles University, MD, Doctor of Medicine | 2006 |
Specialty Certification Licensure
| Certification, Diplomate in Interventional Pulmonology, AABIP | 2018 - 12/2028 |
| Licensure, State License of Mississippi, Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure | 07/2012 - Present |
| Certification, American Board Of Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine, ABIM | 11/2016 - Present |
| Certification, American Board Of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Medicine, ABIM | 11/2014 - Present |
| Certification, American Board Of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine, ABIM | 08/2012 - Present |
Current Positions
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | 10/2017 - Present |
| Director | 07/2020 - Present |
| Director | 01/2020 - Present |
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine | 11/2016 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Jason Beattie, Ray Parrish, Laith Ayasa, Paula Aranguren, Francisco L Uribe-Buritica, Mariana Nino Lopez, Cristiana M Pineda, George Cheng, Michal Senitko, Ramsy Abdelghani, Anil Magge, Camilo A Avendano, Fayez Kheir, Kai Swenson, Mihir Parikh, Jennifer Wilson, Paul A VanderLaan, Sidhu Gangadharan, Adnan Majid Safety and feasibility of bronchoscopic microwave ablation technology for peripheral lung cancer: a multi-center, prospective, single-arm study protocol BMC Surg. 2025 Oct 24;25(1):497. doi: 10.1186/s12893-025-03230-y | 2025 |
| Martina ONDRUŠOVÁ, Martin SUCHANSKÝ, Soňa VÁNDOR SVIDOVÁ, Gabriela CHOWANIECOVÁ, Bela MRIŇÁKOVÁ, Monika SEKEREŠOVÁ, Dominik JUSKANIČ, Dalibor ONDRUŠ, Michal ŠENITKO The real-world comparison of non-small cell lung cancer survival outcomes depending on immunotherapy treatment and PD-L1 expression level Neoplasma 2024; 71(5): 498–508 | 2024 |
| Ankush P Ratwani, Robert J Lentz, Heidi Chen, Evan Schwartz, Lance Roller, Samira Shojaee, Wes Shepherd, Shaikh M Noor Ul Husnain, Michal Senitko, Yanglin Guo, Gustavo Cumbo-Nacheli, Fazal I Raziq, Ashutosh Sachdeva, Van Holden, Kamel Gharaibeh, Bryan S Benn, J Scott Ferguson, Otis B Rickman, Lonny Yarmus, Fabien Maldonado; Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group (IPOG) Spray Cryotherapy for Benign Large Airway Stenosis: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study of Safety and Practice Patterns J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2024 Jan 1;31(1):63-69. | 2024 |
| Ziegler CGK, Owings AH, Galeas-Pena M, Kazer SW, Miao VN, Navia AW, Tang Y, Bromley JD, Lotfy P, Sloan M, Laird H, Williams HB, George M, Drake RS, Pride Y, Abraham GE 3rd, Senitko M, Robinson TO, Diamond G, Lionakis MS, Shalek AK, Ordovas-Montanes J, Horwitz BH, Glover SC An enhanced IL17 and muted type I interferon nasal epithelial cell state characterizes severe COVID-19 with fungal coinfection. | 2024 |
| Juskanic D, Sandor F, Denkova L, Juhos P, Janik M, Hontzas J, Mistinova JP, Senitko M, Ondrusova M Lung Cancer Screening Initiative in Slovakia: Guidelines of screening implementation Bratisl Lek Listy. 2023;124(2):109-115. doi: 10.4149/BLL_2023_016. PMID: 36598297. | 2023 |
| Akulian J, Bedawi EO, Abbas H, Argento C, Arnold DT, Balwan A, Batra H, Uribe Becerra JP, Belanger A, Berger K, Burks AC, Chang J, Chrissian AA, DiBardino DM, Fuentes XF, Gesthalter YB, Gilbert CR, Glisinski K, Godfrey M, Gorden JA, Grosu H, Gupta M, Kheir F, Ma KC, Majid A, Maldonado F, Maskell NA, Mehta H, Mercer J, Mullon J, Nelson D, Nguyen E, Pickering EM, Puchalski J, Reddy C, Revelo AE, Roller L, Sachdeva A, Sanchez T, Sathyanarayan P, Semaan R, Senitko M, Shojaee S, Story R, Thiboutot J, Wahidi M, Wilshire CL, Yu D, Zouk A, Rahman NM, Yarmus L; Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group. Bleeding Risk With Combination Intrapleural Fibrinolytic and Enzyme Therapy in Pleural Infection: An International, Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study Chest. 2022 Jun 16:S0012-3692(22)01089-3. | 2022 |
| Cumbo-Nacheli, Gustavo; Colt, Henri; Agrawal, Abhinav; Cicenia, Joseph; Corbetta, Lorenzo; Goel, Akhil D.; Goga, Ameena; Lee, Hans J.; Murgu, Septimiu; Pannu, Jasleen; Senitko, Michal; Tarantini, Francesco; Vujacich, Patricia; Williamson, Jonathan; Yap, Elaine; Lentz, Robert J. Bronchoscopy in Patients With Known or Suspected COVID-19 Bronchoscopy in Patients With Known or Suspected COVID-19, Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology: April 2022 - Volume 29 - Issue 2 - p 146-154 | 2022 |
| Michal Senitko, Catherine L Oberg, George E Abraham, William B Hillegass, Israh Akhtar, Erik Folch Microwave Ablation for Malignant Central Airway Obstruction: A Pilot Study Respiration. 2022 Mar 22:1-9. doi: 10.1159/000522544. Epub ahead of print | 2022 |
| Arash Samarghandi, Michal Senitko, Dena Khorsandi and Eugene Shostak Mispositioned Pigtail Catheters in Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia EC Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine 10.11 (2021): 29-34 | 2021 |
| Carly G.K. Ziegler, Vincent N. Miao, Anna H. Owings, Andrew W. Navia, Ying Tang, Joshua D. Bromley, Peter Lotfy, Meredith Sloan, Hannah Laird, Haley B. Williams, Micayla George, Riley S. Drake, Taylor Christian, Adam Parker, Campbell B. Sindel, Molly W. Burger, Yilianys Pride, Mohammad Hasan, George E. Abraham, Michal Senitko, Tanya O. Robinson, Alex K. Shalek, Sarah C. Glover, Bruce H. Horwitz, Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Impaired local intrinsic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection in severe COVID-19 Cell 184, 1–21 September 2, 2021 | 2021 |
| Julia J Liu 1, Meredith E Sloan, Anna H Owings, Erika Figgins, Josee Gauthier, Raad Gharaibeh, Tanya Robinson, Haley Williams, Campbell B Sindel, Fremel Backus, Krishna Ayyalasomayajula, Adam Parker, Michal Senitko, George E Abraham 3rd, Brian Claggett, Bruce H Horwitz, Christian Jobin, Robert M Adelman, Gill Diamond, Sarah C Glover Increased ACE2 Levels and Mortality Risk of Patients With COVID-19 on Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy Am J Gastroenterol.2021 May 27. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000001311. Online ahead of print. | 2021 |
| Rachel C Newsome, Josee Gauthier, Maria C Hernandez, George E Abraham, Tanya O Robinson, Haley B Williams, Meredith Sloan, Anna Owings, Hannah Laird, Taylor Christian, Yilianys Pride, Kenneth J Wilson, Mohammad Hasan, Adam Parker, Michal Senitko, Sarah C Glover, Raad Z Gharaibeh, Christian Jobin The gut microbiome of COVID-19 recovered patients returns to uninfected status in a minority-dominated United States cohort Gut Microbes.Jan-Dec 2021;13(1):1-15. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2021.1926840. | 2021 |
| Roy J. Cho, Michal Senitko, Jennifer Wong, Hamid Khosravi, George E. Abraham III Feasibility of using the O-arm Imaging System during ENB-rEBUS Guided Peripheral Lung Biopsy: A Dual Center Experience. Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology 2020 Dec 18. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000738. Online ahead of print. | 2020 |
| Kevin C Wilson, David A Kaminsky, Gaetane Michaud, Sunil Sharma, Linda Nici, Rodney J Folz, Igor Barjaktarevic, Nirav R Bhakta, George Cheng, Geoffrey L Chupp, Adam Cole, Anne E Dixon, James H Finigan, Brian Graham, Teal S Hallstrand, Jeffrey Haynes, John Hankinson, Neil MacIntyre, Jess Mandel, Kevin McCarthy, Meredith McCormack, Susheel P Patil, Margaret Rosenfeld, Michal Senitko, Sonali Sethi, Erik R Swenson 27, Sanja Stanojevic, Mihaela Teodorescu, Daniel J Weiner, Renda Soylemez Wiener, Charles A Powell Restoring Pulmonary and Sleep Services as the COVID-19 Pandemic Lessens: From an Association of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division Directors and American Thoracic Society-coordinated Task Force Ann Am Thorac Soc 2020 Nov;17(11):1343-1351 | 2020 |
| Senitko M, Ray AS, Murphy TE, Araujo KLB, Bramley K, DeBiasi EM, Pisani MA, Cameron K, Puchalski JT. Safety and Tolerability of Vacuum Versus Manual Drainage During Thoracentesis: A Randomized Trial. J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2019 Jul;26(3):166-171 | 2019 |
| Senitko M, Puchalski JT Pancreaticopleural Fistula Presenting as Left Neck Swelling: A Case Report Pleura 2016 Jan-Dec, Vol3, doi:10.1177/2373997516662002 | 2016 |
| Rosa J, Zelinka T, Petrak O, Strauch B, Somloova Z, Indra T, Holaj R, Curila K, Tousek P, Senitko M, Widimsky P, Widimsky J Importance of thorough investigation of resistant hypertension before renal denervation: should compliance to treatment be evaluated systematically? J Hum Hypertens 2014 Feb 6. doi: 10.1038/jhh.2014.3 | 2014 |
| Rosa J, Somlóová Z, Petrák O, Strauch B, Indra T, Senitko M, Zelinka T, Holaj R, Widimský J Jr. Peripheral arterial stiffness in primary aldosteronism Physiol Res. 2012;61(5):461-8. Epub 2012 Aug 8. | 2012 |
Review Article | |
| Michal Senitko, Meredith Sloan, Yanglin Guo Endoscopic management of tracheoesophageal fistulas: a narrative review Mediastinum; Vol 9 (March 25, 2025): Mediastinum 2025 | 2025 |
| Erik Folch, MD, MSc Yanglin Guo, MD Michal Senitko, MD Therapeutic Bronchoscopy for Lung Nodules: Where Are We Now? Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2022;43:480–491 | 2022 |
| Coile, C.E., Harvey, J.G. & Senitko, M Recent Developments in the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions: a Narrative Review Curr Pulmonol Rep 9, 164–170 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13665-020-00261-z | 2020 |
Book Chapter | |
| Ivan Kocan, Michal Senitko Chapter 14: Pneumological and bronchologic diagnosis of lung cancer (Pneumologicka a bronchologicka diagnostika karcinomu pluc - Chapter in Slovak language). In Lung Cancer (Karcinom Pluc) 2025 A Dzian, G Chowaniecova, E Halasova. Karcinom Pluc, P+M 2025, ISBN: 978-80-69123-14-4 | 2025 |
| Michal Senitko, Frantisek Sandor Chapter 27: Endobronchial therapy of lung cancer (Endobronchialna terapia karcinomu pluc - chapter in Slovak language). In Lung Cancer (Karcinom Pluc) 2025 A Dzian, G Chowaniecova, E Halasova (editors) Karcinom Pluc, P+M 2025, ISBN: 978-80-69123-14-4 | 2025 |
| Senitko M, Bhagat R, MacIntyre NR Chapter 5: Blood Chemistries and Hematology. In Respiratory Care: Principles and Practice 3rd Edition Respiratory Care: Principles and Practice 3rd Edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning,2016 ISBN: 978-12-84050-00-4 | 2014 |
Letter to the Editor | |
| Roy J Cho, Michal Senitko The Road to 90 J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2023 Jan 1;30(1):89-91. doi: 10.1097/LBR.0000000000000862. PMID: 36597201. | 2023 |
| Senitko M, Murphy TE, Puchalski JT Strengths and Limitations of a Small Randomized Trial Comparing Manual and Vacuum Drainage in Thoracentesis J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2019 Jul;26(3):e43 | 2019 |
Presentations
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Bronchoscopic treatment of peripheral lung carcinoma, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2025/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 12/2025 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Role of Advanced Intraoperative Imaging During Peripheral Bronchoscopy, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2024/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 12/2025 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Bronchoscopic treatment of central airway obstruction, XXIV Congress of Slovak and Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Vysne Hagy, Slovakia | 06/2025 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Recanalization techniques in the treatment of central airway obstruction, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2024/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 11/2024 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Robotic bronchoscopy in diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2024/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 11/2024 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Utility of Advanced Imaging During Bronchoscopic Biopsies of Peripheral Lung Nodules, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2023/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 12/2023 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Overview of Benign Airway Stenosis, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2023/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 12/2023 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Endoscopic Management of Massive Hemoptysis, Airway Diagnostics and Interventions Congress DIDC 2023/Czech Pneumological and Phthiseological Society, Prague | 12/2023 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Safety and Feasibility of Microwave Ablation for Malignant Central Airway Obstruction, Bronchoscopic Ablation Summit 2023/Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 10/2023 |
| Poster Presentation, Necrotizing Tracheitis Managed with Spray Cryotherapy, American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Baltimore, MD | 08/2021 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Interventional Pulmonary in Cancer Care, Weill Cornell School of Medicine, Web-based | 08/2021 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, A Novel Approach to Central Airway Obstruction, Yale University, Web based | 05/2021 |
| Poster Presentation, Diagnostic approach to a loculated pleural effusion, Americal College of Chest Physicians, Virtual | 10/2020 |
| Poster Presentation, Feasibility and Safety of Endoscopic Microwave Ablation for Malignant Central Airway Obstruction – a Case Series, European Respiratory Society International Congress, Vienna/Virtual | 08/2020 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Postgraduate Course Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy State of the Art in 2018, American College of Chest Physicians, San Antonio, TX | 10/2018 |
| Poster Presentation, Successful Blood Patch Pleurodesis in a Patient with Persistent Air-leak Induced by Intrapleural Lytics Administration post Lung Resection, 20th World Congress of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Rochester, MN | 06/2018 |
| Poster Presentation, Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in a Patient with DRESS Syndrome and Acute Respiratory Failure, American Thoracic Society, San Diego, CA | 05/2018 |
| Poster Presentation, A Single Center Experience with Povidone-Iodine Pleurodesis, Dept. of Medicine, UMMC Student Union | 04/2018 |
| Poster Presentation, A Rare Posterior Mediastinal Mass Diagnosed by EBUS TBNA and Cautery-Assisted Transbronchial Forceps Biopsies (ca-TBFB), American Thoracic Society | 05/2017 |
| Poster Presentation, Pneumothorax and Subcutaneous Emphysema in the Setting of Malignant Pleural Effusion and Tunneled Pleural Catheter, American Thoracic Society | 05/2016 |
| Poster Presentation, An Unusual Cause of Left Neck Swelling and Right Pleural Effusion, American Thoracic Society | 05/2016 |
| Poster Presentation, Sarcoid-like Reaction in Regional Lymph nodes in Patient with Lung Cancer: Incidenceand Racial Disparities, American Thoracic Society | 05/2016 |
| Poster Presentation, Organizing Pneumonia as Pulmonary Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangitis, The Southern Society for Clinical Investigation | 02/2015 |
| Poster Presentation, Oral Case Presentation-Diffuse Pulmonary Hemangiomatosis 57th Annual Tri-State American Thoracic Society Case Conference, Tri-State ATS, New Orleans, LA | 01/2013 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Socrates Program Award, European Commission for Education and Training | 2004 |
Professional Membership and Service
| European Respiratory Society, Member | 2019 - Present |
| World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Member | 2014 - Present |
| American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Fellow | 2014 - Present |
| American Thoracic Society, Member | 2012 - Present |
| American College of Chest Physicians, Member | 2012 - Present |
Committee Service
| Editorial Board of Infectious Agents and Disease, Review Editor | 2023 - Present |
| American Cancer Society - Addressing Lung Cancer Biomarker Testing Through Project ECHO, Member | 2021 - Present |
| AABIP Pulmonary Lung Nodule Guideline Committee for Non-Surgical Biopsy and EBUS-Guided Mediastinal Staging, Member | 2021 - Present |
| COVID Tracheostomy Task Force, Member | 2020 - 2022 |
| COVID Endoscopy Services Task Force, Chair | 2020 - 2022 |
| AABIP 2nd conference, Co-Chair | 2019 - 2019 |
| American Thoracic Society Clinicians Advisory Committee, Member | 2019 - Present |
| AABIP Inaugural Conference, Co-Chair | 2018 - 2018 |
| AABIP-KAT Self Assessment Tool Development, Task Force Member | 2018 - 2020 |
| Procedural Sedation Committee, Member | 2017 - Present |
| Mississippi Lung Cancer Round Table Steering Committee, Member | |
| Lung Nodule Guideline Committee, Member | |
| American Thoracic Society, Member |
Other Service
| Annals of Internal Medicine | 02/2022 - Present |
| Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology | 07/2019 - Present |
| Journal of Thoracic Imaging | 10/2017 - Present |
| Canadian Journal Of Respiratory Medicine | 10/2017 - Present |
Teaching Experience
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Medicine Grand Rounds | Fall 2022/2023 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Medicine Morning Report | Spring 2019 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Anesthesia Grand Rounds | Fall 2019 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Hospitalist Medicine Noon Conference | 2018 - 2018 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Family Medicine Conference | 2018 - 2018 |
| SHRP, Lecture, Lecturer, Clinical Medicine | Fall 2018 - 2018 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Medicine Noon Conference | Fall 2018 - 2018 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Medicine Morning Report | Fall 2018 - 2019 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Emergency Medicine Conference | Fall 2018 - 2018 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Medicine Morning Report | Spring 2018 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Pulmonary Noon Conference | Summer 2018 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Interventional Pulmonary Course | Spring 2018 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Interventional Pulmonary Series | Fall 2018 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Introduction to Interventional Pulmonary | 2017 - 2017 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Pleural Disease | 2017 - 2017 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Pulmonary Conference | Summer 2017 |
Directed Student Learning
| Supervised Research, Advised: Chin Bin Yen | 2022 - 2022 |
| Preceptor | 2010 - 2012 |
Fellows supervised
| Pulmonary/Critical Care, Research Advisor, 14 fellows supervised | 01/2017 - Present |
| Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship, Attending Physician, 32 fellows supervised, MICU, PUlmonary Consults, Interventional Pulmonary | 11/2016 - Present |
Residency Training
| Internal Medicine, Attending Physician | 2016 - Present |