Interventional Pulmonology Curriculum
The University of Illinois Chicago/Chicago Chest Center offers a 12 month Interventional Pulmonology fellowship is spread across a spectrum of hospitals to allow for exposure to a wide variety of patients, diagnoses, interventions and multiple mentors. Currently, there are six board certified Interventional Pulmonologists and a wide range of related specialists that participate in training.
Interventional pulmonology involves the care patients with both non-malignant and malignant airway, pleural, mediastinal and parenchymal lung diseases. Accredited training programs in interventional pulmonology must provide a broad exposure to patients suffering from both malignant and non-malignant diseases of the thorax.
Clinical Locations:
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System
Suburban Lung Associates/Chicago Chest Center and the hospitals in which they are currently associated: Alexian Brothers Medical Center, St. Alexius Medical Center, Edward Hospital, Northwest Community Hospital and Central DuPage and Delnor Northwestern Hospitals.
Interventional Pulmonology Conferences Heading link
| Tuesday | Weekly Lung Conference Northwestern Community Hospital |
| Wednesday | Bi-weekly Lung Conference St. Alexius Medical Center every other week |
| Thursday | Weekly conference Central DuPage Hospital |
| Friday | Bi-weekly Journal Club |