Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

The Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is committed to its triple mission of providing excellence in patient care, being on the cutting edge of research, and promoting superior education & training.

Our internationally renowned faculty provides service to specialty clinics for patients with asthma, COPD, sarcoidosis, pleural disease, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, sleep-disordered breathing, and ICU survivors of ARDS.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is the education and research hub of one of the nation’s oldest and largest medical centers. Our Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine is part of the largest department on the UTHSC campus. We are committed to outstanding clinical care, education, and research.

Our professors educate the next generation of Tennessee physicians with the best available scientific, technological, and clinical knowledge. Our medical scientists seek to discover the causes of illnesses and to translate those discoveries into new therapies for curing and preventing disease.