The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine has one of the most active and productive research programs in the Department of Medicine. The Division has funding for research through Merit Review Awards from the Department of Veteran Affairs and National Institute of Health.

Active Research Projects:

• Mechanisms of weaning failure
• Patient-ventilator interactions
• Respiratory muscle pathophysiology
• Sleep in the ICU
• Control of breathing
• Outcome in long-term ventilated patients
• Lung transplantation
• COPD rehabilitation
• Alterations in lung cellular function after acute injury

• Divison Publications
• Grants
• Education - LUMEN