Meet the Physicians
Our highly qualified and experienced physicians aim to deliver evidence-based pulmonary, asthma, and sleep disorder care that is sensitive to a patient’s particular goals and objectives.Please take a moment to meet our highly regarded physicians and pulmonary specialists:
Board certified by ABIM in Internal Medicine and in the subspecialty of Pulmonary Medicine.
Dr. Stewart earned his medical degree at the University of California–Davis School of Medicine in 1973. He then completed his internship (1974) and residency (1975) at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, and then went back to UC-Davis to complete his fellowship in pulmonary medicine in 1978.
Dr. Stewart founded Pulmonary Associates, Inc. in 1978 and currently sees patients at our Wellness Way location, as well as inpatients primarily at Valley Hospital.
Board certified by ABIM in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine disorders, Dr. Syed Akbarullah joined Pulmonary Associates, Inc. in 2001.
Dr. Akbarullah earned his medical degree at Gandhi Medical College/Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, in 1983. He then completed his internship in internal medicine at the Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 1990. In 1993, he completed his internal medicine residency at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and went on to three fellowships: pulmonary medicine and critical care at the Chicago Medical School, and sleep medicine at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Akbarullah serves as the Medical Director at the Southern Nevada Sleep Lab and is the program director for the Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship program at Valley Hospital. He is also a member of the American College of Chest Physicians.
He currently sees patients primarily at St. Rose Siena Hospital.
Dr. Jerome Hruska is AOA board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care.
Dr. Hruska earned his medical degree from the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Touro University Nevada in 2010. He went on to residency training in internal medicine at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas in 2011. He then completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine in 2016 at the same location.
He is the Chief of Staff of Kindred Hospitals and is on the ethics committee at Valley Hospital.
Dr. Hruska joined Pulmonary Associates in 2016 and primarily sees inpatients at Mountain View Hospital, Kindred Flamingo, Kindred Sahara, and Centennial Hills.
Why not take the next step and contact one of the doctors at Pulmonary Associates for an appointment? Just call (702) 384-5101 or use our convenient online appointment request form.
