Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Within the Department of Medicine, the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine provides services at Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospitaland RML Specialty Hospital. Together our hospitals have approximately 800 acute care beds of which 200 are adult intensive care beds. The Loyola University Hospital is rated as having one of the highest patient acuity level in Illinois. The Lung Transplantation Program is one of the most active programs in the country. The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospitalis a referral base for other VA hospitals in the region. is one of the largest long-term acute care hospital in the nation.
Our Division offers care for patients with advanced lung disease and sleep disorders. Our asthma program has a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to treatment of this disorder. Other unique services of our division include acute and chronic ventilator management of patients with spinal cord injury, electrophrenic pacing of the diaphragm, and brachytherapy for lung cancer.
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine consists of 15 full-time faculty members. Research with extramural funding includes projects in cellular mechanisms in acute lung injury, acute and chronic lung rejection, control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, mechanisms of patient-ventilator interactions, sleep-disordered breathing, and exercise rehabilitation in COPD.
Loyola University Medical Center has a fully accredited and highly competitive three-year Fellowship Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine that trains up to 12 fellows. The fellows are trained to be skilled physician-scientists through intense clinical exposure and several months devoted to research. The program's strength in Critical Care Medicine lies in its vast resource of critically ill patients, active critical care research by faculty members, and close teaching affiliation with other specialties.
Faculty
Daniel Dilling, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM
Associate Professor
Sean Forsythe, MD
Professor
James Gagermeier, MD, ABIM
Associate Professor
Emily Gilbert, MD
Assistant Professor
Amit Goyal, MD
Assistant Professor
Paul Hutchison, MA
Assistant Professor
Amal Jubran, MD
Professor
Ejaaz Kalimullah, MD
Assistant Professor
Sunita Kumar, MD, FCCP, FAASM
Associate Professor
Franco Laghi, MD, FCCP
Professor
Shruti Patel, MD
Assistant Professor
Sana Quddus, MD
Assistant Professor
Kevin Simpson, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor
Martin J. Tobin, MD
Professor
Nidhi Undevia, MD, DABSM, FAASM
Associate Professor
Within the Department of Medicine, the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine provides services at Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospitaland RML Specialty Hospital. Together our hospitals have approximately 800 acute care beds of which 200 are adult intensive care beds. The Loyola University Hospital is rated as having one of the highest patient acuity level in Illinois. The Lung Transplantation Program is one of the most active programs in the country. The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospitalis a referral base for other VA hospitals in the region. is one of the largest long-term acute care hospital in the nation.
Our Division offers care for patients with advanced lung disease and sleep disorders. Our asthma program has a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to treatment of this disorder. Other unique services of our division include acute and chronic ventilator management of patients with spinal cord injury, electrophrenic pacing of the diaphragm, and brachytherapy for lung cancer.
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine consists of 15 full-time faculty members. Research with extramural funding includes projects in cellular mechanisms in acute lung injury, acute and chronic lung rejection, control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, mechanisms of patient-ventilator interactions, sleep-disordered breathing, and exercise rehabilitation in COPD.
Loyola University Medical Center has a fully accredited and highly competitive three-year Fellowship Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine that trains up to 12 fellows. The fellows are trained to be skilled physician-scientists through intense clinical exposure and several months devoted to research. The program's strength in Critical Care Medicine lies in its vast resource of critically ill patients, active critical care research by faculty members, and close teaching affiliation with other specialties.