Asthma and COPD Clinic
HOW TO REFER A PATIENT
For urgent referrals or inpatient transfers, please call UAB MIST (Medical Information Service via Telephone) at 1-800-UAB-MIST
(1-800-822-6478) or email mist@uabmc.edu. UAB MIST is a toll-free, 24-hour service that connects physicians anywhere in the country with UAB Medicine specialists.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
UAB Pulmonary Services is consistently recognized among the best programs of its kind by U.S. News & World Report. Our Asthma and COPD Clinic focuses on patients with emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and chronic asthma, while our Alpha-1 Clinic specializes in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Our program is integrated with the UAB Lung Health Center, which offers new drugs and therapies through clinical research studies, and we perform advanced treatments such as bronchoscopic lung volume reduction and lung transplantation for qualifying patients. Telehealth services are available in some cases.

FEATURED EDUCATION
Endobronchial Lung Volume Reduction
March 16, 2022
March 15, 2025
Healthcare professionals
Accreditation Statement: The University of Alabama School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Alabama School of Medicine designates this online enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Testing & Treatment Options
November 12, 2018
Reissue Date:
October 27, 2021
October 26, 2024
Health care professionals, pulmonologist, and primary care providers
Accreditation Statement: The University of Alabama School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Alabama School of Medicine designates this online enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Bronchial Thermoplasty
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Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Primary Care Providers
Bronchial Thermoplasty (BT) is an FDA approved procedure for adult patients with severe asthma who remain poorly controlled despite compliance with medical therapy. BT employs heat, delivered by thin wires fed down the airway, to reduce the amount of excess smooth muscle in the airway. The procedure uses the Alair System, developed by Asthmatx Inc., which comprises a specially designed catheter and electrode array to deliver a precise amount of heat energy to the excess smooth muscle. The treatment is performed in three outpatient procedures, typically three weeks apart. This presentation features Mark T. Dransfield, MD, and Jennifer Trevor, MD, performing and providing step-by-step narration of a Bronchial Thermoplasty Procedure.
For more information on UAB's Bronchial Thermoplasty procedure, including consult and referral resources, click here.
Telehealth & Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Alabama
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Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Primary Care Providers
Dr. Surya P. Bhatt, assistant professor and medical director of UAB Medicine's Remote Rehabilitation Program discusses a multidisciplinary management study that targets hospital readmissions of COPD, and how early pulmonary rehab and telehealth interventions can affect these trends and ultimately transfer revenue to the health system.
Supplemental Oxygen with COPD & Moderate Hypoxemia
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Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Primary Care Providers
Michael Wells, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, provides updates on treatments for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and moderate hypoxemia, including the use of supplemental oxygen and long term oxygen therapy (LTOT).
Semi-Interventional Pulmonology
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Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Primary Care Providers
Mark Dransfield MD, covers two major topics in this presentation from the 2013 UAB Pulmonary and Critical Care Update symposium. Bronchial thermoplasty offers help to those asthma patients who are unable to be adequately controlled despite available medications.
COPD in the 21st Century
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Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Primary Care Providers
Mark Dransfield, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, discusses the clinical and molecular phenotyping, current ongoing clinical trials, the heterogeneity of acute exacerbations, and the future of research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

