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The Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy section at the University of  Illinois at Chicago (UIC) provides a full array of services for patients. We direct the Medical Intensive Care Unit service at the UIC Medical Center and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and also rotate at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. Patients receive the highest level of care and attention medicine can provide. Our superbly trained medical teams are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide accurate diagnoses, effective treatments and cures.
 The critical care team has primary responsibility for all aspects of patient care and conducts daily bedside rounds and extensive didactic teaching. Fellows, residents, and students working on these MICU rotations carry out technical procedures including ventilator management, cardiopulmonary monitoring, and placement of central lines under the supervision of the attending physician. Our section also staffs the Surgical ICU and consults on the Neuro and Cardiothoracic ICUs at the UIC Medical Center.
Both the UIC Medical Center and Jesse  Brown hospitals support busy pulmonary inpatient consultation services and a robust outpatient practice in pulmonary and sleep medicine. Patients with a variety of respiratory and sleep-related illnesses come to UIC for an expert opinion and care in a variety of both common and unusual illnesses. Our section conducts several clinical studies in which patients can be involved. Areas of expertise and academic interest include: alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency, asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease, scleroderma-related lung disease, sleep apnea, tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases.
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