The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine provides consultative services, diagnosis, and treatment of all aspects of lung disease in adults including allergy, asthma, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, COPD, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, persistent cough, shortness of breath, lung infections, and other diseases of the lung.

Services

• Inpatient pulmonary consult service
• Outpatient pulmonary consult service
• Critical Care consultations and management of patients in ICU
• Thoracic Oncology Program (T.O.P), a multidisciplinary team assisting patients with lung cancer  
• Multidisciplinary Asthma Clinic
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program 
• LDL Apheresis
• Allergy/Immunotherapy
• Mobile Asthma Van Program - Brings quality care to innner city children

Evaluation Services

• Pulmonary Function Testing
• Methacholine Challenge 
• Dyspnea Evaluation
• Excercise Induced Bronchoconstriction
• Cardiopulmonary Stress Testing-CPEST
• Rehabilitation evaluations are also available at Evanston Hospital

Physician referral required for Evaluation Services listed above.  Please call 847.570.1876 to schedule appointments at Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital and Highland Park Hospital or call 847.933.6232 to schedule appointments at Skokie Hospital.

Sleep Disorders

Pulmonary medicine specialists care for patients with sleep-disordered breathing (such as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome) and chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure who may require nocturnal or 24-hour ventilator assistance.  Visit the Sleep Center section on our website for more information.  Physician referral is required.

Clinical Trials

Daniel Ray, MD is the principle NorthShore University HealthSystem investigator of a collaborative effort spearheaded by Cornell University that involves 40 institutions worldwide on lung cancer. The I-ELCAP (International Early Lung Cancer Action Project) research effort will enroll and follow more than 35,000 high-risk patients (current or former smokers, age>45, 20 pack-years smoking) using low-dose spiral CT for early detection of lung cancer. This project uses a tested methodology and comprehensive database, and quality control measures to track each patient, and ensure the necessary follow-up. The new non-contrast low-dose GE lightspeed CT scanners are available at Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals. Referral from a primary care physician is required. Information on the study is also available at www.ielcap.org.