The ambition of the Department of Social Medicine is to initiate, conduct and publish high quality research in the field of public health, health promotion and health services research.
The Department of Respiratory Medicine covers the full spectrum of academic tasks in the area of respiratory health and disease:
Clinical Care
Research
Teaching
The mission of the Department is:
to prevent and combat lung diseases by highest standard of medical care
to develop and implement innovative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
to produce integrative medical research with intensive cross-talk between clinical and basic researchers
to teach and educate undergraduate and post-graduate students in medicine and basic science towards MD and PhD degrees
to train medical specialists (pulmonologists)
The Department comprises:
clinical ward
outpatient clinic
bronchology/endoscopy centre
lung function laboratory
respiratory cell biology lab
clinical research unit
Collaborations
The Department has intensive collaborations with all other relevant medical and research units within AMC.
The clinical profile of the Department includes:
severe and difficult-to-treat asthma
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
lung cancer
interstitial lung disease, in particular sarcoidosis
obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)
cystic fibrosis
pulmonary vascular diseases
respiratory infections