Francisco Aécio Almeida is currently working at Cleveland Clinic. He is certified in Internal Medicine—Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine—Pulmonary Disease. He undertook medical education at the Federal University of Ceara School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency at Walter Cantidio University Hospital Federal University of Ceara in 1999 and his residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in 2003. He received a Fellowship from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 2006. He completed a course at the Graduate School at Thomas Jefferson University in 2008 and received a fellowship from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 2010. His specialty interests include benign and malignant central airway diseases, carcinoid syndrome, endobronchial manifestations of systemic diseases, lung abscess, lung cancer, lung nodules, pleural effusion, tracheoesophageal fistula, and tracheomalacia. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, World Association for Bronchology, and Association of Interventional Pulmonology Program Directors.