Pulmonary Medicine

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Team addresses multiple debilitating conditions, including shortness of breath, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, emphysema, and interstitial lung disease.

We also treat disorders that affect the quality and duration of sleep, such as sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, and more.

Our Team

Peter LaCamera, MD

Chief of Service, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine

Lisa Bajpayee, MD

Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine

Omar Shweish, MD

Pulmonary and Critical Care

Programs

Our programs provide patients with expert, comprehensive subspecialty care.

Patient Information

We treat a variety of lung conditions, as well as sleep disorders:

  • Advanced obstructive lung disease
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • Occupational lung disease
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Thoracic cancers
  • Pleural diseases
  • Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
  • Pulmonary fibrosis
  • Sleep apnea
  • Loud snoring
  • Constant tiredness
  • Insomnia
  • Parasomnias – a variety of abnormal behaviors that occur during sleep, such as sleepwalking and sleep-related eating
  • Shift work and circadian rhythm problems
  • Restless leg syndrome
  • REM behavior disorder
  • Narcolepsy
  • Restless leg syndrome
  • Sleep fragmentation
  • Sleep cycle disturbances
  • Obstructive sleep apnea

We offer many treatments and services for lung conditions and sleep disorders, including:

  • Critical care
  • Respiratory Intensive care
  • General pulmonary medicine
  • Interventional pulmonology
  • Respiratory therapy
  • Pulmonary function testing
  • Sleep medicine, including sleep studies and CPAP