Program Leaders and Core Faculty

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Erin Camac, DO, FCCP

Dr. Camac hails from Philadelphia, Pa., where she both trained and served as faculty at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, an institution known for the famed Temple Lung Center. A multiple award-winning educator, she served as core faculty and as an Associate Program Director for Temple’s large internal medicine residency program. With the American Thoracic Society, she is an academically-active educator at the international level.

Dr. Camac is interested in the clinical care of interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients, the development of future medical educators through medical education scholarship, and educational innovation. Outside interests include loud electric guitar, live music, natural history, role-playing games, and science fiction / fantasy.

Critical Care Medicine Programs: Michael Powers, MD

Dr. Powers attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University and completed his training at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. He had the distinctive pleasure of serving as a core faculty member and as an Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the world’s largest military hospital, where he received numerous teaching awards. He also had the unique opportunity to practice medicine in a variety of austere overseas venues before joining the faculty at UK in 2021.

Dr. Powers’ clinical interests are wide-ranging, and include airways disease and pulmonary physiology, and he is passionate about medical education. He enjoys watching or participating in sporting events, outdoor activities such as hiking, and exploring new places with his 2 young children.

Interventional Pulmonary Medicine: Ashish Maskey, MD

Ashish P. Maskey is a specialist in pulmonology, critical care medicine and interventional pulmonology, a relatively new and upcoming field. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of internal medicine at the UK College of Medicine.

Dr. Maskey completed a residency in internal medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., followed by a fellowship in pulmonology and critical care at the Cleveland Clinic. He then received an additional year of training in interventional pulmonology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Dr. Maskey uses minimally invasive techniques such as endobronchial ultrasound and electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy to aid in the diagnosis of lung nodules and staging of lung cancer. He also performs rigid bronchoscopy, laser, electrocautery, argon and cryotherapy for airway narrowing/obstruction. He manages pleural diseases and performs Denver drains, pleurodesis and medical thoracoscopy. He also manages tracheotomy tubes.

Pulmonary and Critical Care: Parijat Sen, MD, MS, FCCP 

Dr.Parijat Sen hails from Kolkata, India where he completed his medical training at Asia’s oldest medical school, Calcutta Medical College. He then moved to the United States and completed his residency in New Jersey and fellowship in Michigan before starting as a faculty at University of Kentucky in 2019. 

He’s been serving as an Associate Program Director since 2022 and loves working with residents and fellows. He oversees fellow research and co-directs the “Lungs On” Mechanical Ventilator Curriculum. His clinical interests include Sarcoidosis and ILD as he also serves as the Director of the Sarcoidosis clinic. Outside work, he loves playing/watching cricket, music, trying out new cuisines, and being a goofy dad.

Critical Care Medicine: Terren Trott, MD 

Dr. Terren Trott is a full time and avid gardener.  He can be frequently found digging in the dirt, pruning perennials, and cultivating propagations.  In his spare time, he enjoys serving as the Associate Program Director for Critical Care, Medical Director of the Code and Resuscitation Committee and serving the Emergency Department Ultrasound Director.  

His training started in Emergency Medicine which completed in 2016 and was followed by an ultrasound fellowship, both at the University of Kentucky. He functioned as an EM attending for several years before choosing the Dark Side of Critical Care Medicine.  He completed fellowship at Cooper University Health in Camden NJ before returning to the University of Kentucky.  He now contributes to the ultrasound curriculum, critical care curriculum and QA process.