Research Project
Black Lung Clinics Program
Supporting coal miners with respiratory care for coal mine dust lung disease
- Principal Investigator
- Go, Leonard
- Research Area(s)
- Chronic Disease
- Workplace Health
- Funding Source
- HRSA H37RH26508
Abstract
The University of Illinois at Chicago Black Lung Clinics Program (UIC BLCP) addresses the unmet respiratory care and benefits needs of active, inactive, disabled, and retired coal miners. The UIC BLCP provides state-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and compensation counseling services to miners who lack these highly specialized resources through our sites in Illinois and Indiana (service area K). Our clinic also serves as a tertiary-level referral center for other Black Lung Clinics nationally for the most complicated and difficult cases of coal mine dust lung disease as well as other occupational lung diseases.