Department Of Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory Medicine is one of the internal medicines which cares, teaches, and researches of respiratory diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, and pulmonary. The diseases are caused by increasing number of smoking population and air pollution. Gangnam Severance Hospital Respiratory Medicine opened Respiratory Center with Radiology, Therapeutic Radiology, and Thoracic Surgery to offer systematic diagnoses, treatments, and follow-ups. Especially, it does its best to offer treatments of diseases which are growing rapidly these days like lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and interstitial lung disease. Also it offers several services for prevention, for instance, non-smoking educations and rehabilitation classes with the Department of Rehabilitation and other classes with Pharmacy and Pulmonary Function Laboratory. Students, majors, nurses, and other professionals do their best for patient educations and clinical researches.