Fellowship Director: Ronald C. Allison, M.D.
 The Pulmonary Fellowship Program is a 2-year program designed to provide the fellow with the education, training, and clinical skills necessary to pursue a clinical academic career or enter the clinical practice of pulmonary and / or critical care medicine. In general, the fellow will spend 4-5 months on the clinical pulmonary service at the University of South Alabama (USA) Medical Center and 5-6 months at the Infirmary West at Knollwood Hospital providing pulmonary and critical care, (primary care and consultation), and 2 months at Mobile Infirmary, as well as attending pulmonary and sleep disorders clinics. Teaching facilities include the USA Medical Center containing the combined Medical Intensive Care and Coronary Care Unit and the attached medical step-down unit. The other major teaching facility is the Infirmary West at Knollwood Hospital containing the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit which is under the direct supervision of the Pulmonary Division and in which both pulmonary/critical care consultation and primary critical care are provided. Attached to Infirmary West is  the Infirmary West Longterm Care Hospital, a facility for non-acute longterm care in which the Pulmonary Division provides consultative services. Infirmary West has an active Sleep Disorders Center that performs approximately 700 annual sleep studies and is supervised by a pulmonary faculty member certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
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