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Maria Elena Vega-Sanchez, MD

Maria Elena Vega-Sanchez
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  • Associate Professor, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
  • Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Specialties

Pulmonology, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine

5.0
80 Patient Satisfaction Ratings
About Me
Publications
Ratings & Reviews
About Me
Clinical Interests
  • Sleep medicine
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Asthma
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Interstitial lung disease
Highlights

Dr. Vega-Sanchez was featured in two 6 ABC "Moves in Medicine" segments. Watch the videos to learn more about a new at-home test that can diagnose sleep disorders and how sleep apnea sufferers can find much-needed relief in CPAP machines.

Languages
  • Spanish
Education
  • MD, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuador
Training
  • Fellowship, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
  • Fellowship, Sleep Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Board Certification
  • Internal Medicine
  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Sleep Medicine
Memberships
  • American Thoracic Society
  • American College of Chest Physicians
Awards and Honors
  • Most Outstanding Resident, Temple University Hospital
  • Sol Sherry Resident and Fellow Research Forum, Temple University Hospital
Offices

Office Locations

Temple Lung Center

Temple University Hospital – Main Campus

3401 N. Broad Street

Ambulatory Care Center, 5th Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19140

Phone: 800-TEMPLE-MED

Fax: 215-707-6867

Temple Health Oaks

450 Cresson Boulevard

Oaks Corporate Center, Suite 200

Phoenixville, PA 19460

Phone: 800-TEMPLE-MED

Fax: 610-650-5149

Publications
Digital Bibliography
Publications

Contributing author of "Smoking and Lung Inflammation: Basic, Pre-Clinical and Clinical Research Advances" book sponsored by Springer Science and Business Media. Submitted for publication.

Paz-y-Mino C, Vega ME, Jervis P, Sanchez ME, Leone PE. Consejo Genetico. Metro Ciencia 2003:Vol. 12(2): 5-9.

Vega Sanchez ME, Marchettti N. 36-Year-Oid Woman with Chronic Cough and Pulmonary Nodules [internet]. New York: American Thoracic Society; 2008 [updated 2009 July 1].

Lammi M, Panetta N, Vega ME. Beyond The Blue: What Fellows Are Reading In Other Journals. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012; 185: 1323-24.

Krachman SL,  Tiwari R, Vega ME, Yu D, Soler X, Jaffe F, Kim V, Swift I,  D’Alonzo GE,  Criner GJ. Effect of Emphysema Severity on the Apnea-Hypopnea Index in Smokers with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016. Jul:13(7):1129-35.

Vega ME, Civic B. A Tension Bulla Mimicking Tension Pneumothorax. N Engl J Med 2011; 365(20): 1915.

Vega Sanchez ME, Steiner R. Images in COPD: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis (Miami). 2015;2(4): In press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.2.4.2015.0162

Ratings & Reviews

80 Patient Satisfaction Reviews

Our Patient Satisfaction Rating is an average of all responses to care provider related questions from our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey. Learn more about Patient Satisfaction Rating.

Overall Rating

5.00 / 5.0

Ratings Breakdown

4.9
Give easy to understand instruction
4.9
Provider expl in way you understand
5.0
Provider listen carefully to you
5.0
Show respect for what you say
5.0
Spend enough time with you
Patient Comments
5.0
June 22, 2022

Dr. Was fantastic
5.0
June 17, 2022

Dr. Vega-Sanchez is the best! A real pleasure to have as a doctor!
5.0
June 9, 2022

Everyone, keeps me alive everyday, I thank everyone, when I see them, for helping me & doctors.
4.0
June 3, 2022

All experiences were good.
5.0
March 17, 2022

Friendly environment and fast service
5.0
January 10, 2022

Dr. Vega is simply the best
5.0
November 22, 2021

Dr Vega Sanchez is a skilled, and compassionate physician. I am very glad and fortunate that she is my Pulmonary physician.
5.0
November 13, 2021

Excellent doctor. We are very pleased with Dr. Maria Elena Vega Sanchez.
5.0
September 27, 2021

Dr. Maria Vega Sanchez is the best doctor I have had the privilege of seeing. If all your doctors aspired to be 20 percent as caring,confident and well informed as Dr. Vega Sanchez your hospital would be rated number 1 in the country.
5.0
September 20, 2021

Always outstanding knowledge helped my asthma beyond expectations. Never go anywhere else!!
5.0
August 2, 2021

Excellent Dr. Vega.
5.0
July 23, 2021

Dr. Was great .
5.0
July 16, 2021

Dr. Vega was terrific. I've already recommended her to my daughter.
5.0
April 29, 2021

I do not know English but they assigned an interpreter to me. In all the exams they behaved very kind.
5.0
April 8, 2021

They attended me very well. I have never had any problem.
5.0
April 5, 2021

Dr. Vega Sanchez is excellent in her practice, knowledgeable, caring, manages her patients well. Perhaps one of the best I've ever been associated with.
5.0
April 1, 2021

I always have good care when I come and visit Dr. Vega. She is the best.
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