Phone:
(859) 323-5045
  Fax:
(859) 257-2418

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Under the direction of Division Chief, James R. McCormick, M.D., FCCP, our clinical programs offer complete diagnostic evaluation and clinical management of all respiratory disorders for inpatient and outpatient services.  Diagnostic aspects include routine pulmonary function testing, related and inter-related pulmonary evaluation of interstitial lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, infectious lung disease, drug-related pulmonary disorders and carcinoma of the lung.  We also have a sleep clinic for inpatients and outpatients, including routine pulmonary function testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, interventional pulmonology and evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders in adults and children. We have specialized expertise in the management of patients with interstitial lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, infectious lung disease, drug-related pulmonary disorders and carcinoma of the lung.

We maintain a special emphasis on:

The Commonwealth of Kentucky leads the nation in COPD, asthma, and lung cancer. A number of multidisciplinary programs within the Markey Cancer Center bring state-of-the-art therapy to the treatment of patients with thoracic tumors thereby uniting medical oncologists, thoracic surgeons and pulmonologists in the evaluation and treatment of chest tumors.

Located at the University’s Good Samaritan Hospital, the Sleep Disorder Center is a joint effort between the two hospitals and represents the most well respected Sleep Lab in central Kentucky.

Our research efforts are supported annually by $2,000,000 in grants focusing on research in respiratory muscle dysfunction, the biology of lung cancer, and the management of COPD and asthma. We are adding research trials frequently and will show updates on our Ongoing Research page.