The Allergy/Immunology/Pulmonary Section of WVU's Department of Pediatrics provides care to infants, children, and adolescents with allergic and/or asthmatic conditions, immulogic disorders, or acute chronic lung disease. We also provide a wide variety of diagnostic services, consultation, and treatment for infectious disease and disorders of the immune system.
Pediatric Pulmonology provides diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of common and complex respiratory disorders, ventilatory muscle weakness, and disorders of neurologic control of breathing including:
Asthma
Breathing disorders
Central apnea/hypoventilation
Chronic cough
Chronic lung disease
Cystic fibrosis
Recurrent pneumonia
Aspiration syndrome
Primary immunodeficiency with lung involvement
Chronic sinusitis with lung involvement
Obstructive sleep apnea
Our pediatric pulmonologists perform pulmonary function testing and related diagnostic procedures and are experts in flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy.
Saif Al Qatarneh,
MD
West Virginia University
Position
Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonology, Pediatrics