Mission:
The mission of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center is to deliver outstanding clinical service to our patients with lung disease and the critically ill, pose questions concerning important issues in our specialty and search for answers through our research efforts, and teach other physicians and students aspects of our clinical specialty. Our programs are focused on the most pressing issues we face including acute lung injury and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), severe advanced lung disease and the role of lung transplantation and surgery for emphysema, lung injury following high dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, mechanisms of airway hyperresponsiveness in patients with asthma, and physiologic processes that control oxygenation and oxygen delivery.

 

Members of our division provide primary and consultative care for patients with various lung diseases on an inpatient and outpatient basis. In addition, we direct services and provide attending intensivist care for patients in the medical and surgical intensive care units at Duke Hospital and the Durham VA Medical Center. We maintain one of the busiest lung transplantation programs in the United States and provide pre- and post-operative care for these patients with advanced complex lung diseases. We are a leading referral center for patients with pulmonary vascular disease and offer innovative care and novel pharmacologic intervention to try to reverse or stabilize this progressive disease.