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Message from the Chairman
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County (formerly Cook County Hospital) has a rich legacy of providing excellent clinical care to the medically underserved in the Chicago area, as well as being a premier training ground for fellows. We equally value excellent patient care and creation of dedicated academic clinicians.
From the days of Drs. Harold Levine and Whitney Addington in the 1970s through the present, the division has seen it all. Since we have by far the most diverse patient base of any hospital in Chicago, our fellows and staff manage the gamut of pulmonary and critical care illnesses. Our division has merged from separate faculties and disciplines to a united team of physicians, nurses, and physiology technicians working toward a safer inpatient environment and a clinic population breathing easier for having met us.
Particular areas of expertise developed over the years in our Pulmonary area have included assessment and care for obstructive airways disorders, lung cancer, tuberculosis and sarcoidosis. Our hospital diagnoses more patients with tuberculosis than any other in Illinois, and our fellows, faculty and DOT team care for them with great success. Based on the accomplishments of our very busy multidisciplinary Asthma Center, our division was named one of five national Centers for Reducing Asthma Disparities by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in 2002.
We have an outstanding pulmonary physiology laboratory which offers the full range of resting, exercise and bronchoprovocation studies as well as a superb cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program. In recent years, we have developed a burgeoning clinical experience in Sleep Disordered breathing, and our faculty have published important observations of both the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of severe obstructive sleep apnea.
Our Medical Intensive Care Unit has been a leader in care for patients with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and our intensivists were among the pioneers of bedside percutaneous tracheotomy.
Our fellows end their three years with us having been exposed to the greatest number and diversity of respiratory and critical illnesses of any fellows in the country, and having received close and experienced supervision as they develop into mature clinicians. The faculty, fellows, and staff of our division welcome you to our website-we hope you will find all the information you need to understand our mission better.
Sincerely,
Catherine Monti, MD
Division Chair
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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