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Division Chief's Message
Welcome
to our website! The University of Tennessee postgraduate training
program in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine traces its origin to 1966
and the last state Tuberculosis Sanatorium, West Tennessee Chest Disease
Hospital, now better known as the Adams pavilion of The Regional Medical
Center at Memphis. As a member of its faculty from the beginning, and
as Chief of our Division since 1988, I have witnessed a continuous development
of excellent specialty practitioners from our fellowship program, that
now represent almost all of the pulmonary physicians in the Greater Memphis
area, as well as many others throughout our country. Currently our 10
full-time faculty and many voluntary clinical faculty are responsible
for the education of 10 pulmonary/critical care fellows over a three year
cycle, after a prerequisite three years of Internal Medicine or four years
of Med/Peds residency. We are also active in the educational formation
of UT medical students over all four years of their schooling, and in
the daily support of Internal Medicine residents rotating on our services.
Our clinical activities offer opportunities for inpatient and ambulatory
experiences at a public facility, Regional Medical Center, at a governmental
institution, VA Medical Center, and in a private setting at UT Bowld Hospital
and at the Methodist University Hospital.
Meritorious clinical investigations have been conducted by our faculty
over these many years in such important disorders as tuberculosis, histoplasmosis,
exacerbations of COPD, pulmonary thromboembolism, ventilator-associated
pneumonia, community-acquired pneumonia, and ARDS. Recently some of our
faculty initiated basic science research projects with the Department
of Physiology and the Division of Connective Tissue Diseases.
We are proud of our heritage, confident of our reputation, and certain of
a meaningful long-term contribution to the Department of Medicine, the College of Medicine, and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
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