Aoife Corcoran, MD
Areas of expertise: Airway and aerodigestive disorders including noisy breathing, Chronic aspiration, Recurrent croup, Airway stenosis, Tracheomalacia, Bronchomalacia, Laryngomalacia bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Chronic respiratory failure, Advanced diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy procedures, Foreign body aspiration, Tracheoesophageal fistula
Locations: Main Building, Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care
About Aoife Corcoran, MD
Titles
Attending Physician
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Certifications
Pediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Pulmonology – American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Awards and Honors
2023, ATS Pediatric Pulmonary Training Directors Association (PEPTDA) Award
2023, CHOP Mentorship Award
2019-2020, CCLM Medical Student Teaching Excellence Award
2020-2021, Resident Of The Year, Pediatric Pulmonology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2020-2021, Resident Of The Year, Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2020-2021, Resident Of The Year, Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2020-2021, Resident Of The Year, Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2020-2021, Resident Of The Year, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2019-2020, Resident Of The Year, Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2019-2020, Resident Of The Year, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2018-2019, Resident Of The Year, Neonatology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2018-2019, Resident Of The Year, Adolescent Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2018-2019, Resident Of The Year, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2018-2019, Resident Of The Year, Rheumatology & Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s
2017, Honours, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick
2012, Honours, University College Dublin
2002, Senior Prefect Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Muckross Park College
Leadership and Memberships
2023-present, American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
2022-present, Society for Pediatric Research
2020-present, American Thoracic Society
Editorial and Academic Positions
Editorial Positions
2024-present, Editorial Board, American Thoracic Society Pediatric Bronchoscopy Library
Education & training
Medical Degree
Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Residency
Pediatrics - Cleveland Clinic Children’s, Cleveland, OH
Fellowship
Pulmonary Fellow - Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2025
Endobronchial valves for severe air leak in critically ill children with necrotizing pneumonia requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Katz AJ, Patel BM, Mazandi VM, Grant LMC, Corcoran A, Phinizy P, Daou AW, Keim G, Magee PM, Allukian M 3rd, Kilbaugh TJ, Tran S, Himebauch AS, Piccione J, Senthil K. Perfusion. 2025 Aug 11:2676591251365419. doi: 10.1177/02676591251365419. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40787939.
2024
Endobronchial Valves for Persistent Air Leak in Children with Necrotizing Pneumonia. Hysinger E, Murray L, Shaikh F, Paisley A, Vicencio A, Shah R, Grant C, Harkin TJ, Haas A, Phinizy P, Corcoran A, Piccione J, Burg G. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Dec;21(12):1781-1784. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202401-034RL. PMID: 39236302.
Practices and perspectives on advanced diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopy among pediatric pulmonologists in the United States. Corcoran A, Shore D, Boesch RP, Chopra M, Das S, DiBardino D, Goldfarb S, Haas A, Hysinger E, Phinizy P, Vicencio A, Toth J, Piccione J. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2024 Jun;59(6):1708-1715. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26977. Epub 2024 Apr 1. PMID: 38558404.
Dynamic airway computed tomography and flexible bronchoscopy for diagnosis of tracheomalacia in children: A comparison study. Corcoran A, Foran A, Phinizy P, Biko DM, Piccione JC, Rapp JB. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2024 Jan 10. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26844. PMID: 38197524.
2023
Clinical features associated with pulmonary exacerbation diagnosis in infants and young children with cystic fibrosis Corcoran A, Faig W, Ren CL. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2023 Dec 22. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26838. PMID: 38131505.
Diagnostic Yield of Endobronchial Ultrasound and Virtual CT Navigational Bronchoscopy for Biopsy of Pulmonary Nodules, Mediastinal Lymph Nodes and Thoracic Tumors in Children Corcoran A, Franklin S, Hysinger E, Goldfarb S, Phinizy P, Pogoriler J, Tran S, DiBardino D, Haas A, Piccione J, Pediatric Pulmonology 2023 Nov 17. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26756. PMID: 37975500.
Endobronchial valve and fibrin sealant placement for successful control of pulmonary hemorrhage in a pediatric patient Corcoran, A, Senthil K, Stinson H, Phinizy P, Piccione J Pediatric Pulmonology 2023 August Article DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26639, PMID: 37594146.
Stridor in a 7-month-old Girl. Corcoran A, Phinizy P, Piccione J. Pediatr Rev. 2023 Oct 1;44(S1):S66-S68. doi: 10.1542/pir.2022-005577. PMID: 37777226.
2022
Respiratory indices during sleep in healthy infants: a prospective longitudinal study and meta-analysis. Darko Stefanovski, Ignacio E. Tapia, Janet Lioy, Shaon Sengupta, Sagori Mukhopadhyay, Aoife Corcoran, Mary Anne Cornaglia, Christopher M. Cielo, Sleep Medicine 2022 Jul 31;99:49-57. PMID: 35963199; PMCID: PMC10320434
Paraneoplastic myasthenia gravis and pemphigus associated with follicular dendritic cell sarcoma leading to cardiorespiratory collapse in a 7-year-old Lynch, H.M., Beslow, L.A., Treat, J.R., Corcoran, A., Lin, J.H., Gunawardena, N., Maris, J.M. and Behrens, E.M. (2022), Pediatr Blood Cancer e29723. PMID: 35484988
2021
Bronchial Artery to Pulmonary Artery Fistula Presenting with Massive Hemoptysis in a Pediatric Patient Corcoran A, Cardenas S Pediatric Pulmonology 2021 December vol. 56(12) p4039-4041 PMID: 34407312.
2020
The Importance of Anti-Vaping Vigilance - EVALI in Seven Adolescent Pediatric Patients in Northeast Ohio. Corcoran A, Carl JC, Rezaee F, Pediatric Pulmonology July 2020 vol. 55(7) p1719-1724, PMID: 32462762; PMCID: PMC7384027