Mission
The mission of the Duke Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine is to deliver outstanding clinical services to our patients with lung disease and the critically ill, pose questions concerning important issues in our specialty, search for answers through our research efforts, and teach other physicians and students aspects of our clinical specialty.
Focus
Our clinical care, research, and training programs focus on the most pressing issues facing patients with pulmonary disease or those who are critically ill.
Our treatment and research is focused primarily in the following areas:
- Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Allergy - Immunology
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH)
- Critical Care Medicine
- Cystic fibrosis
- Hyperbaric medicine and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Interventional pulmonology
- Lung cancer diagnosis and treatment
- Lung injury following high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation
- Lung transplantation for even the most criticially ill patients
- Physiologic processes that control oxygenation and oxygen delivery
- Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Severe advanced lung disease
- Sleep Medicine: Pulmonary disorders that affect sleep
- Smoking Cessation