Maryland’s Health Matters - Midtown - Spring 2017 - 8

Legally blind,
Foster takes
the bus to the
UMMC Midtown
Campus from
her home in
West Baltimore.

COMPREHENSIVE
LUNG CARE

screenings, immunizations,

clinical trials for

Campus and an

nutrition counseling and

lung disease.

assistant profes-

UMMC Midtown Campus

a new smoking health

offers comprehensive

assessment and cessation

strength is

lung care for a range of

clinic to help smokers quit.

providing com-

disorders, including asthma,

Patients also have access to

prehensive care

interstitial lung disease,

advanced diagnostic tech-

in a timely manner, with a

"Everyone from primary

COPD, collapsed lung,

nology and innovative treat-

multidisciplinary approach,"

care physicians and reha-

bronchitis and lung cancer.

ments like bronchoscopic

says Ashutosh Sachdeva, MD,

bilitation specialists to

Services include pulmonary

lung volume reduction,

chief of interventional pulmo-

pulmonologists and thoracic

rehabilitation, lung cancer

as well as groundbreaking

nology at UMMC Midtown

anesthesiologists collaborate

sor of medicine at

"Our key
Ashutosh
Sachdeva, MD

the University of
Maryland School
of Medicine.

NEW STOP
SMOKING CLINIC

associated with smoking, medications that help during

This spring, UMMC Midtown Campus will open its first

get a full assessment," Dr. Deepak says. "Our goal is

smoking assessment and cessation clinic.

to prevent them from getting a smoking-related disease.

The clinic gives smokers access to lung and respiratory specialists, as well as education about health risks

8  MARYLAND'S HEALTH MATTERS

the quitting process and support groups and classes.
"We encourage people who are smokers to come and

Prevention is a thousand times better than a cure." The
smoking cessation clinic takes most health insurance plans.

 
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For more information about the pulmonary



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