Allen Cole Burks is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Pulmonology. He completed his Doctor of Medicine at Saint Louis University. His Clinical Interests are Interventional Bronchoscopy, Pleural Diseases, Peripheral Lung Nodule Diagnosis, Lung Cancer Staging, Malignant Pleural Disease, Malignant Airway Disease, Management of Central Airway Obstruction, and Granulomatous Disease in the Lung.