PACCM News

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Alison Morris named Chief of the Division of PACCM

Jul 1, 2019

Alison Morris, MD, MS, has been appointed chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM) beginning July 1, 2019. She is currently the vice chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Medicine.

Artificial Intelligence Reduces False Positive Screens for Lung Cancer

Mar 12, 2019

More than 95 percent of people who screen positive for lung cancer don’t actually have it, but AI could change that.

Two PACCM Faculty Are First in Early Study to Use New Device to Treat Chronic Bronchitis

Nov 5, 2018

Drs. Frank Sciurba and Roy Semaan in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine treated the first two patients in an Early Feasibility Study of an electrosurgical system created to treat the persistent symptoms of chronic bronchitis.

Department of Medicine Biotech Company Raises Over $5 Million

Jul 11, 2018

Globin Solutions, Inc., a startup biotechnology company formed last year by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, completed over $5 million in Series A funding for its development of an antidote to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Pittsburgh International Lung Conference

May 10, 2018

Abstracts and Registration are now open for the Pittsburgh International Lung Conference being held at the University Club on October 4-5, 2018.

Pitt, UPMC Plan $200 Million Immunotherapy Center, World-Class Innovation Hub in Bloomfield

Feb 13, 2018

The University of Pittsburgh and UPMC are partnering to create a UPMC Immune Transplant and Therapy Center (ITTC), which will be based in a world-class innovation hub to be developed in Bloomfield. UPMC has made an initial $200 million, three-year funding...

Lung Transplant Can Be Performed Safely in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Sep 1, 2017

A team of UPMC researchers found that patients with coronary disease can safely undergo lung transplantation, according to a peer-reviewed article in Clinical Transplantation. Of 656 lung transplant recipients in the study, 324 had documented coronary...

VMI Researchers Uncover Molecular Origins of Pulmonary Hypertension to Help Speed Treatment

Jun 5, 2017

VMI investigators Elena Goncharova, PhD, and Stephen Chan, MD, PhD, study how pulmonary hypertension develops in order to design better therapeutic interventions to prevent, regress, or cure this devastating cardiopulmonary disease. During the past year,...

Setting a Trap to Rid the Body of Carbon Monoxide

Dec 7, 2016

Mark Gladwin, MD, and his research team have discovered a possible antidote to carbon monoxide poisoning. The toxic, odorless and colorless gas results in about 50,000 emergency department visits annually in the United States alone. It is one of the...