Blesilda Quiniones Ellis, MD, FCCP, FACP

Dr. Blesilda Quiniones Ellis earned her medical degree from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Medical Center in the Philippines in 1986. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at St. Michael’s Medical Center/Seton Hall University of Graduate Medical Education in Newark, NJ then completed her Fellowship Training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with additional 6 months of Interventional Pulmonary at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1994. She did a 2 year Visa Waiver in East Orange, NJ, before she joined Tulane School of Medicine in 1997. She transitioned into the Adult CF Director, Head of the VA bronchoscopy Services, the Co-Chair of the Tulane Wetmore Clinic then eventually also became the Fellowship Program Director of the Tulane Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program from 2003-2005.

After Hurricane Katrina, she went into Private Practice for 17 years in Mobile, Alabama, initially with the Diagnostic Medical Clinic and then with Pulmonary Associates of Mobile. She continued to be active in clinical research with publications during Private Practice in Interventional Pulmonary, COPD and Asthma research. She was also involved in multiple committees in the hospital including the Medical Executive Committee and Chaired the Critical Care Committee for the hospital. She was part of the Covid Executive Committee for Mobile Infirmary, a 680-bed hospital in Midtown Mobile. She collaborated with the establishment of the Dothan Alabama DO Medical School as the Medical Site Director for Mobile, Alabama, and served as an Assistant Professor for the University of South Alabama, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care training fellows in Pulmonary Procedure from 2015 until 2022.

She will rejoin Tulane School of Medicine in January 2023 as an Associate Clinical Professor and her goal is to impart her knowledge about Private Practice to the training program and to collaborate more closely with the local Community Physicians.