About Us
Patient care and clinical services
The Pulmonary Division UT Health San Antonio is one of the state’s major clinical referral centers and boasts a comprehensive set of pulmonary outpatient services, as well as in-patient pulmonary and critical care services. A more detailed list is below.
Outpatient clinic services available:
- Interstitial Lung Disease Specialty Clinic
- Pulmonary Hypertension Specialty Clinic
- Lung Transplant Specialty Clinic
- Interventional Pulmonary Specialty Clinic
- Cystic Fibrosis Specialty Clinic
- Lung Nodule and Mass Clinic
- Severe Asthma Specialty Clinic
- University Hospital Comprehensive Pulmonary Medicine Clinic
- South Texas VA Comprehensive Pulmonary Medicine Clinic
- Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC) Comprehensive Pulmonary Medicine Clinic
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- Pulmonary Function Lab Testing
Critical care medicine services available:
- Medical ICU (MICU)
- Neuro-ICU (NICU)
- Cardiothoracic ICU (CTICU)
- Surgical ICU (SICU)
Interventional pulmonary services offered:
The following are just some of the diagnostic and therapeutic services offered, many of which are unique to south Texas:
- Endobronchial US-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes (Convex EBUS-TBNA)
- Peripheral/Radial EBUS-TBNA
- Endobronchial and transbronchial biopsies
- Rigid Bronchoscopy
- Airway stent placements
- Airway balloon dilation therapy for airway stenosis
- Airway ablative procedures (laser, APC, cryotherapy, electrocautery)
- Percutaneous tracheostomy
- Ultrasound-guided thoracentesis
- Chest tube placement
- Tunneled pleural catheter placement for persistent pleural effusions
- Bronchial thermoplasty for severe resistant asthma
- Whole lung lavage
- Endobronchial valve placement for persistent bronchopleural fistulas
- Swan-Ganz/Right-Heart/Pulmonary Artery Catheter Placement
A Division in the Department of Medicine
The Division of Pulmonary Diseases is one of twelve divisions housed in the Department of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine. Our sister divisions include:
- Janey and Dolph Briscoe Division of Cardiology
- Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
- Division of Diabetes
- Division of Endocrinology
- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Division of General Internal Medicine
- Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care
- Division of Hospital Medicine
- Division of Hematology/Oncology
- Division of Infectious Diseases
- Division of Nephrology
- Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Contact Us
7400 Merton Minter
VAH 5th Floor Rm C516
San Antonio, TX 78229
Phone: 210-567-5792
Fax: 210-949-3006
Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine -Leadership & Staff
Name | Title | Telephone | |
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Diego Maselli Caceres | Chief of Division Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine | masellicacer@uthscsa.edu | 210-617-5256 |
Kevin C. Proud | Fellowship Program Director Associate Professor | proud@uthscsa.edu | 210-617-5256 |
Stephanie M. Levine | Associate Fellowship Program Director Professor | levines@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-5792 |
Marcos Restrepo | Associate Fellowship Program Director Associate Professor | restrepom@uthscsa.edu | 210-617-5256 |
Ailene Alcaraz | Fellowship Program Coordinator - Senior | alcaraz@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-4928 |
Allyssa Rosario | Program Coordinator | rosarioa@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-4881 |
Marissa Benavidez | Manager, Finance & Administration | benavidezm1@uthscsa.edu | 210-450-9886 |
Anayeli Mendoza | Administrative Assistant – Senior | mendozaa7@uthscsa.edu | 210-450-8925 |