Dr. Timothy Craig provides clinical tutorial in allergy and the allergic approach to asthma management. Dr. Rebecca Bascom provides tutorial guidance in the diagnosis and management of environmental and occupational respiratory disease. Kevin Gleeson and Virginia Imadojemu lead the Sleep Disorders Clinic. The local Health South ventilator weaning unit provides a training site for pulmonary rehabilitation. Dr. Margaret Wojnar, director of the Intensive Care Unit coordinates training with the Simulation Development and Cognitive Science Laboratory that provides ample models and simulators for the development of individual and interdisciplinary competency in critical care.
Fellows maintain a one-half day continuity clinic for the three years of their fellowship clinic.
The continuity clinic is fed by a new patient clinic that the fellow has during the first year of the fellowship rotation, and from inpatient consultations Amy Sawyer, RN, MScN, is an advanced practice nurse working within our group focusing in sleep and adult cystic fibrosis. She sees patients both independently and collaboratively. We believe the use of advanced practice nurses is the wave of the future, and we are training fellows to be comfortable with this practice model. We also work with an outpatient clinical case manager who is a nurse focused on care coordination for our most challenging patients. Research training is an important element of the fellowship program.