The Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides care and treatment for a wide range of respiratory diseases and critically ill patients. Our physicians conduct research related to a broad spectrum of lung diseases, interventional pulmonology, transplant medicine, and critical care medicine, and are also commitment to advancing the education of pulmonary and critical care physicians and scientists.
Pulmonary & Critical Care News
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UNC Receives Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers Accreditation
The UNC Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) program has received reaccreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) for the period 2019-2022, building upon their initial accreditation as the first CCC in the state in 2015. This continued designation recognizes the ability to deliver the highest level of inpatient and outpatient care in a multidisciplinary … Continued
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IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced, Five in Medicine
The Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) has announced projects that will be supported through IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program. Half of these scholars are members of the UNC Department of Medicine, and they include the following. Mildred Kwan, MD PhD, with lead Renae Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, CPP — Reducing the Healthcare Utilization of Broad … Continued
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Boucher Named to Give Amberson Lecture at American Thoracic Society Meeting
Ric Boucher, MD, the James C. Moeser Eminent Professor of Medicine in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and director of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been named to give this year’s Amberson lecture at the American Thoracic Society meeting, May 15-20 in Philadelphia, PA. The J. Burns Amberson Lecture recognizes a … Continued