The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, provides inpatient and outpatient consultation, evaluation and state-of-the-art treatment for a wide range of acute and chronic lung diseases.
Diseases treated include the following:
Pulmonary medicine services include the following:
- Highly specialized bronchoscopy services, including fiberoptic bronchoscopy
- Pulmonary function testing
- Bronchoprovocational testing
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
- Sweat chloride testing
- Airflight simulation
- Pulmonary education and rehabilitation
Innovative therapies for respiratory failure and asthma in the intensive care units include the following:
- Open lung/low tidal volume ventilation
- Nitric oxide
- Heliox
Physicians in the division also evaluate patients for sleep apnea and other sleep-related disorders, as well as cardiopulmonary disorders.
Robert A. Balk, MD, is head of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Critical care and pulmonary medicine specialists at Rush have been listed among Chicago's and America's best by Castle Connolly Ltd., a respected source of information about U.S. health care providers and institutions. For profiles of pulmonologists at Rush and physicians specializing in related areas, visit our Find a Doctor section.
The team also includes:
- Elaine Chen, MD
- David Gurka, MD, PhD
- Carl Kaplan, MD
- Omar Lateef, DO
- Robert Rosen, MD
- Michael Silver, MD
- Brian Stein, MD
- Rajive Tandon, MD
- Betty Tran, MD
- Amie Tucker, MD
- Mark Yoder, MD
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