Charles Frank Kreisel, MD

Charles Kreisel, M.D., is dual-trained and board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Pulmonary Disease. This extensive training brings a deep understanding of how respiratory conditions develop and progress through all stages of life. While his expertise is comprehensive, his current practice is dedicated to providing specialized pulmonary care for patients 16 years and older.

Dr. Kreisel offers expert care for patients with all forms of respiratory disease, with a special clinical focus on treating non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis and pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) disease.

Dr. Kreisel believes that excellent medicine is built on a foundation of trust and a strong patient-doctor relationship. He is committed to providing humanistic, evidence-based care and operates on the principle that a treatment plan should work for the patient, not the other way around. He partners with patients to find solutions, believing there is no such thing as a "patient failing" a treatment, but rather an opportunity for the patient and doctor to collaboratively find a better path forward.

Specialties include the following:

• Diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy



• Endobronchial ultrasound



• Thoracentesis



• Thoracostomy tube placement



• Endotracheal intubation



• Thoracic ultrasound



• Central venous catheter placement



• Arterial catheter placement