Within the Department of Medicine, the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine provides services at Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital and Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital. Together our hospitals have approximately 800 acute care beds of which 200 are adult intensive care beds. The Loyola University Hospital is rated as having one of the highest patient acuity level in Illinois. The Lung Transplantation Program is one of the most active programs in the country. The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital is a referral base for other VA hospitals in the region. Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital is one of the largest long-term acute care hospital in the nation.

Our Division offers care for patients with advanced lung disease and sleep disorders. Our asthma program has a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to treatment of this disorder. Other unique services of our division include acute and chronic ventilator management of patients with spinal cord injury, electrophrenic pacing of the diaphragm, and brachytherapy for lung cancer.

The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine consists of 15 full-time faculty members. Research with extramural funding includes projects in cellular mechanisms in acute lung injury, acute and chronic lung rejection, control of breathing, respiratory muscle function, mechanisms of patient-ventilator interactions, sleep-disordered breathing, and exercise rehabilitation in COPD.

Loyola University Medical Center has a fully accredited and highly competitive three-year Fellowship Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine that trains up to 12 fellows. The fellows are trained to be skilled physician-scientists through intense clinical exposure and several months devoted to research. The program's strength in Critical Care Medicine lies in its vast resource of critically ill patients, active critical care research by faculty members, and close teaching affiliation with other specialties.

Services are available for the treatment of:

• Asthma
• Emphysema
• Chronic cough
• Lung cancer
• Dyspnea
• Sarcoidosis
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Acute respiratory failure
• Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Sleep disorders

The division also boasts of an outstanding Lung Transplantation Program, Lung Volume Reduction Program, Asthma Program and Sleep Disorders Program.

Services are available at the Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital and the Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital.

Contact Us
To schedule an appointment, please contact Loyola Central Scheduling at (708) 216-8563. A list of our faculty can be found here.

To contact the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care administration, please call (708) 216-5402.

Martin J. Tobin, MD
Professor Medicine
Division Director, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine