Sunkaru Touray, MD, FACP, FCCP is a US trained Board-Certified specialist in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.
He is an expert in the diagnosis and management of patients with respiratory diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, pleural and interstitial lung disease. As a critical care specialist, Dr. Touray also specializes in the treatment of patients with life-threatening illnesses in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Dr. Touray trained in Internal Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester Massachusetts, USA where he was the recipient of the Sarah L. Stone Award for Excellence in Medical Education- a prestigious award given to physicians of the highest compassion in caring for their patients, while maintaining great excellence in teaching students and residents. Dr. Touray then completed a combined fellowship in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the same institution, followed by post graduate research training at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Touray is the first Gambian to be elected as a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Touray currently serves as the Program Medical Director for Sound Critical Care and ICU Medical Director at CHI St Luke’s Memorial Hospital in Lufkin, Texas. Prior to this, Dr. Touray served as a staff physician at Carlsbad Medical Center in New Mexico with faculty appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. In this role, he served both as Medical Director of Respiratory Care and Vice Chair at the Department of Medicine, during which he established the first advanced EBUS-bronchoscopy program in the south eastern part of the state.
A native of Kartong- a small coastal village in The Gambia, he completed his medical degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in Ghana, where he graduated at the top of his class as the recipient of the Professor Sir J.W. Acheampong Award for the best graduating medical student in the Medicine Clerkships. Dr. Touray served as a physician house officer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the 37 Military Hospital in Ghana for two years before proceeding to the University of Basel in Switzerland where he completed a double Master’s Degree in Epidemiology and Infection Biology, conducting epidemiological research on climate change and respiratory diseases in Mauritania.
In his spare time, Dr. Touray enjoys spending time in Kartong, when he visits The Gambia, and exploring the Guadalupe, Sierra Blanca and Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Medical Education
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
MD, Doctor of Medicine
Kumasi, Ghana
Residency: Internal Medicine
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Fellowship: Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Postgraduate Education
University of Basel
MSc. (Magna Cum Laude) Epidemiology & Infection Biology
Basel, Switzerland
Harvard Medical School
Global Clinical Scholar Research Training Program
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
SPECIALTY BOARD CERTIFICATION
2015 American Board of Internal Medicine- Internal Medicine
2017 American Board of Internal Medicine- Pulmonary Diseases
2018 American Board of Internal Medicine- Critical Care Medicine