College of Medicine Catalog
2005
The Arizona Respiratory Center has members from many different academic departments. It is responsible for interdisciplinary pulmonary-allergy programs in research, training and clinical services. It coordinates activities of the Adult-Pediatric Chest-Allergy Clinic as well as University Medical Center's Adult and Pediatric Pulmonary Function Laboratories, Blood Gas Laboratory and Respiratory Therapy Service. It is also responsible for collaborative postdoctoral training programs in Adult and Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine.
A major role of the Center is to coordinate multidisciplinary research programs in respiratory disease, with special emphasis on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea. The Center is internationally renowned for its contributions to the understanding of the natural history of and risk factors for asthma through a series of longitudinal studies that have been conducted uninterruptedly for the last 30 years. In recent years, the Center has extended its scope towards studies of the genetics, immune biology, molecular biology and functional genomics of asthma, allergies and acute lower respiratory infections in young children. Studies on the role of environmental exposures in determining asthma severity in childhood and on modern treatment of asthma are also underway. Finally, the Center is well known for its studies on the epidemiology and cardiovascular consequences of obstructive sleep apnea.
2005 College of Medicine
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