Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinic

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can affect how patients breathe, move, work, and live. At the UK HealthCare COPD Clinic, we provide comprehensive, personalized care for patients at every stage of COPD, including those with complex and advanced disease.

Our multidisciplinary team includes lung specialists, specialized pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and nurses with expertise in medication optimization, advanced therapies, pulmonary rehabilitation, bronchoscopic interventions, lung transplantation, and clinical research. By bringing these services together within one academic health system, we provide a comprehensive pathway from diagnosis and treatment optimization to advanced COPD care.

Why Choose UK for COPD Care?

Expertise for complex disease

Our clinic provides specialized evaluation and management for a wide range of patients from early disease and symptoms to patients with persistent symptoms, frequent exacerbations, severe emphysema, or COPD that remains difficult to control.

Dedicated multidisciplinary care

Our pulmonologists and specialized pharmacists work closely with patients to optimize medications, address treatment barriers, improve inhaler technique, and develop individualized treatment plans.

State-of-the-art pulmonary rehabilitation

Our pulmonary rehabilitation facility provides supervised exercise, education, and individualized programs designed to improve exercise capacity, functional status, and quality of life.

Advanced treatment options

Appropriately selected patients have access to advanced biologic drug therapies and evaluation for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) for advanced emphysema through our interventional pulmonary team.

Lung transplantation

As a lung transplant center, UK provides comprehensive evaluation and access to transplantation for appropriately selected patients with advanced lung disease.

Comprehensive AATD evaluation and management

We provide evaluation for Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), an inherited condition that can cause emphysema and liver disease. Patients with AATD have access to specialized pulmonary and liver expertise, advanced therapies, and comprehensive long-term disease management.

Research and innovation

As an academic medical center, we offer access to COPD and AATD clinical trials, providing eligible patients opportunities to participate in research evaluating emerging therapies and innovative treatment approaches.