The celebration was regarding University of Michigan Health-Sparrow just completing its 500th ION robotic bronchoscopy, an innovative procedure that allows clinicians to maneuver a robotic-assisted catheter into the lungs to target hard-to-reach nodules. It means we’re able to reach small or remote nodules that may contain the first signs of lung cancer and then address the cancer before it spreads. UM Health-Sparrow was the first hospital in the region to use ION and we’re ready to celebrate our 500th milestone. A patient whose cancer was detected at an early stage will be available to discuss how ION changed his life, plus physicians will talk about the impact of the procedure.

For this video, you see the room with procedures, interviews with Dr. Mohanad M. Saleh, MD Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology and then patient Dan, an example of one of the 500 treated at UM Health-Sparrow with the ION robotic bronchoscopy process. Other footage from the conference room celebration of the 500 process milestone. 

More about the doctor: Mohanad “Mo” Saleh, M.D.,(left) is a fellowship-trained interventional pulmonologist. He is board certified in interventional pulmonology, general pulmonology, and critical care medicine. Dr. Saleh provides high-quality medical care and uses state-of-the-art minimally invasive technology to diagnose spots on the lungs or abnormalities in the breathing tubes. Dr. Saleh is the Director of Interventional Pulmonology at UM Health-Sparrow Lansing, collaborating with multiple subspecialties, including thoracic surgery, general pulmonology, medical and radiation oncology, and other departments in clinical care and research. He is one of the key team members of the multidisciplinary chest clinic at the Herbert-Herman Cancer Center. Specialties and Procedures include rigid and flexible bronchoscopy, navigational bronchoscopy and EBUS, ablative therapies and airway stenting, thoracentesis, chest tube and tunneled pleural catheter, medical thoracoscopy, bronchial thermoplasty, intrabronchial valves, percutaneous tracheostomy placement, and gastrostomy tube. placement