Overview

The Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is responsible for a broad range of clinical activities that provide the medical resident with a number of educational/training experiences. The Section directs the Medical Intensive Care Unit at both the University of Illinois Hospital and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center - West Side. Each hospital supports busy consult services, and there is an active UIH lung transplant program. Residents rotating on each service work with a team that includes an attending physician and a fellow. The team has primary care responsibilities in the units and conducts daily rounds (twice daily in the MICUs), with extensive didactic teaching. The consultation service experience also involves training in the performance and interpretation of pulmonary function tests including exercise testing and bronchial challenge. While on the MICU rotation, residents are responsible for ventilator management and cardiovascular monitoring. They perform, under supervision, necessary procedures, such as placing central lines and pulmonary artery catheters.

Residents on the consultation service have the opportunity to follow patients in the Ambulatory Chest Clinic at either the UIH or JBVAMC, as well as in the Sleep and Ventilatory Disorders Center. Senior residents are encouraged to do research with one of the Section's clinician-investigators in a number of areas of basic or clinical research.

The three-year fellowship includes experiences at the two campus medical center hospitals, Michael Reese Hospital and St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

Research interests and activities encompass basic and clinical investigation that includes cellular and molecular mechanisms of inflammation, gene therapy (asthma), sleep disordered breathing and sleep apnea, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary vascular disease.