Susanna McColley, MD Division Head, Pulmonary Medicine

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics has the largest pulmonary practice and one of only two accredited training programs in Pediatric Pulmonology in Chicago.  Our clinical facilities include a Cystic Fibrosis center with approximately 200 patients; a full service Pediatric Pulmonology consultative service; a flexible bronchoscopy service; a full pulmonary function laboratory including spirometry, plethysmography, diffusion capabilities, and a pulmonary exercise laboratory.  Complementary programs, staffed by additional faculty as well as Pediatric Pulmonary Faculty, include a program in sleep medicine with a four-bed sleep unit and two full-time sleep medicine physicians, and a pulmonary habilitative care program providing full service care to ventilator dependent patients.  We have five full-time faculty involved in the pulmonary program, one dedicated sleep medicine faculty, seven faculty in our Division primarily dedicated to critical care medicine, one nurse practitioner, two full-time nurses, and a full laboratory and secretarial support staff.  Clinical facilities include a pulmonary inpatient unit and outpatient facilities at Children’s Memorial Hospital, and two satellite sites.

If a child's condition is very complex and requires the consultation of a variety of subspecialists, Children's Memorial is the hospital of choice. Very few pediatric hospitals have Children's Memorial's equivalent level of high-tech surgical services or the depth and breadth of highly-qualified subspecialists immediately available.

In January 2007, the pulmonary care at Children's Memorial was named among the top ten specialties of this kind in the nation by Child Magazine. Read the article in Child Magazine.