Twenty two department of medicine providers were named among the region's top physicians by Castle Connolly, the consumer healthcare guide. Seven of the recognized providers were featured in Chicago magazine's January 2019 "Top Doctors" list. More News
The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy is pleased to announce a 1 year fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology in an new collaboration with the Chicago Chest Center. Program accreditation, which is newly offered this year and for which we are already provisionally accredited until 2020, is under the joint auspices of the American [...]
Dr. Robert Winn, associate vice chancellor for health affairs and director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, is quoted in an article in Modern Healthcare on building trust among patients considering enrolling in clinical trials. UI Health is one of the institutions taking part in the All of Us Precision Medicine Program, an NIH-funded [...]
Dr. Kevin Haas received a Respiratory Health Association (RHS) award for his research entitled “Pulmonary Nodule Diagnostic and Therapeutic Timeliness Study (PuNDiTT)”. On hand to present the award were Mr. Joel Africk, President & Chief Executive Officer of Respiratory Health Association and DOM faculty Dr. Kevin Kovitz (Pulmonary) and Dr. Lawrence Feldman (Hematology/Oncology). The RHA [...]
Dr. Robert Winn, Professor or Medicine, received the Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cancer Institute. Lifetime Achievement honorees are former CURE scholars who have successfully navigated the CURE pipeline. They are leaders in their fields and have made significant contributions to cancer research and workforce diversity. Dr. Winn acknowledges that [...]
On March 29, 2017, over 40 American Thoracic Society (ATS) members and patient advocates traveled to Capitol Hill to encourage increased research funding, health care reform that ensures affordable health insurance coverage and legislation to expand research and treatment for veterans with burn pit exposures. ATS members came from 23 states across the country to [...]
