Last month, AdvancedHEALTH, Middle Tennessee's largest, independent, multi-specialty practice, announced the addition of Thomas Atwater, MD, to its growing group of providers. Atwater is a board-certified pulmonary and critical care doctor who sees patients at MidState Pulmonary. His areas of clinical interest include COPD, asthma, lung nodules, navigational bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound, novel techniques in diagnostic bronchoscopy and other general pulmonary disorders.

Atwater received his medical degree from University of Texas in Houston followed by an internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was chief resident, and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship also at Vanderbilt.