Metro Health Adds New Pulmonologist
Metro Health Hospital announced today that Dr. Julie M. Bourbonnais has joined its growing pulmonology department on its main campus.
WYOMING MI, April 05, 2012
Metro Health Hospital announced today that Dr. Julie M. Bourbonnais has joined its growing pulmonology department on its main campus.Bourbonnais specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of lung disease and sleep disorders. She is licensed to practice in Michigan and Ohio and is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine and sleep medicine. She began seeing patients in March.
Prior to joining Metro she served as a physician at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, and its sister facility in nearby Boardman. Prior to that, she as an assistant professor of medicine at Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center.
Bourbonnais received her bachelor's and master's degree from Wayne State and her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. She had fellowship training in critical care and pulmonary medicine at Wayne State and the Detroit Medical Center.
She is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association and Michigan State Medical Society. She has presented at numerous conferences and published several articles.
A native of Southeast Michigan, she currently resides in East Grand Rapids with her husband and daughter.
About Metro Health Hospital
Metro Health is a regional health-care organization with a 208-bed general acute care osteopathic teaching hospital and 12 neighborhood outpatient centers, serving more than 250,000 patients in Kent and surrounding counties. Metro, which earned status as a Top 100 Hospital for three consecutive years, offers a broad range of services, including hospital inpatient and outpatient services, emergency, surgery, cancer, cardiology, intensive care and rehabilitation. Physician, therapy and diagnostic services are offered in its 12 neighborhood centers. Metro's work is supported by the Metro Health Hospital Foundation, which is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of the West Michigan community through philanthropy. For more information, visit HYPERLINK "http://www.metrohealth.net"www.metrohealth.net.