Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

The Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine is a multi-faceted division with full time faculty who provide care for any form of acute or chronic lung disease or critical Illness.

The mission of the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine is to provide the best clinical care available for patients with lung disease and associated medical illnesses in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We feel that this care can best be delivered within the VCU Health System. Our mission is further to provide the best teaching of lung disease and associated disorders to future physicians. Finally, we strive to explore critically important lung and vascular and metabolic diseases through organized research.

VCU is a flourishing medical center of excellence in respiratory and critical care medicine. Seeing high numbers of patients helps our doctors develop specialized knowledge that is built on years of experience. Division faculty have extensive training and experience in caring for patients exactly like you, and it shows. This knowledge and experience gives our patients the best chance for getting the treatment and care to help them feel better and live healthier and more productive lives.

From the initial visit through follow-up, VCU's pulmonologists work hard to know each patient’s concerns and then to set about creating an individualized and thorough treatment plan. Our team includes pulmonary physicians, cardiothoracic surgeons, researchers, pulmonary nurse specialists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, and nutritionists. We are committed to providing all patients solace, answers, options and results.

Division faculty are always searching for better ways to help patients. VCU’s Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Division has an active pulmonary clinical trials program. We've led research into the causes of COPD, adult cystic fibrosis, emphysema, asthma, interventional pulmonology , pulmonary hypertension, sarcoidosis, global health, pulmonary fibrosis and acute lung injury. We always lead the search for safer and more effective therapies for these problems. Engaging in clinical trials research allows the VCU faculty to find the best new therapy for our patients. VCU has developed strong clinical centers with accreditation for the treatment of our patients.

Clinical Division faculty have both outpatient and inpatient practices where care for patients occurs. The Division currently has 27 clinical faculty and five research faculty. Clinical faculty are regional and national award winning teachers and clinicians who provide the best patient care available in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Outpatients are cared for in the Ambulatory Care Center on the VCU Medical Center Campus, at the Stony Point Medical Center Campus, and at VCU’s West End location just off Mayland Drive. Clinical Division faculty care for patients with many forms of lung disease. Other examples: Dr. Kristin Miller cares for patients who develop serious lung disorders following bone marrow transplantation. All Division faculty provide care for many patients with asthma of any severity. Patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (emphysema) receive expert care by all faculty. Dr. Daniel Grinnan is a recognized national expert on diagnosis and treatment of patients with Pulmonary Hypertension. Dr. Catherine Grossman directs the severe asthma case management clinic.

Additionally faculty members within the pulmonary disease and critical care medicine division train pulmonary disease and critical care medicine fellows, internal medicine housestaff and medical students. The Division also provides medical directorship to the Departments of Respiratory Care, Pulmonary Function, Exercise Physiology, Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit and as mentioned above Pulmonary Outpatient Medicine. Divisional responsibilities include Critical Care attending coverage and teaching of bedside medicine in the Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit at the VCU Medical Center and the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Central Virginia VA Health Care System. Division faculty members also direct the Pulmonary Consultation Service and the Interventional Bronchoscopy Service. The Division has a fully developed basic research unit within the Victoria Johnson Center for Lung Disease Research located on the VCU School of Medicine campus in 10,000 square feet within the Molecular Medicine Research Building.

About the Chair

About the Chair

About the Chair

Patrick Nana-Sinkam MD, is Chair of the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Nana-Sinkam is a Professor of Medicine at VCU and the Linda Grandis Blatt Endowed Chair of Lung Cancer Research.

A native of Virginia, Dr. Nana-Sinkam received his undergraduate degree from Williams College, followed by an M.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where he served as chief medical resident, and then completed a fellowship in Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Learn more about Dr. Nana-Sinkam

VCU Faculty

Advanced Practice Providers
  • Dana Alderson, FNP
  • Stephanie Bork, MSN, FNP-BC, APRN
  • Janet Pinson, MSN, ACNP

VAMC Faculty

  • Daniel E. Bechard, MD - Chief of Medical Service
  • Seth E. Brant, MD
  • Frederick L. Glauser, MD
  • Peter M. Lee, MD
  • Angela Love, MD
  • Leonard C. Moses, MD - Section Chief
  • Rebecca Potfay, MD

The Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine excels in helping seriously ill patients. Our results speak for themselves. Our strengths and accomplishments include:

VCU’s Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine is conducting critically important active ongoing research projects involving clinical and basic science. Division research faculty are engaged in intricate probing of pressing mysteries such as acute Lung Injury and critical illness, Pulmonary Hypertension, and hyperlipidemia with its accompanying vascular disease. Research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association.

Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
1200 East Broad Street
Box 980050
Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0050
Phone: (804) 828-9071


Division Contacts

Medicine

S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam, MD
Division Chair
Box 980050
Richmond Virginia 23298-0050
Fax:  (804) 828-2578
Email: patrick.nana-sinkam@vcuhealth.org

Administration

D. Brent Kimball, RN, MHA, FACHE
Division Administrator
Phone: (804) 828-7788
Fax: (804) 828-2578
Email: brent.kimball@vcuhealth.org