Since 2014 the Pulmonary Hypertension Association has been working to provide a more useful directory of PAH experts. Prior to this time physicians were listed by request but were not vetted in any way. They simply filled out a survey and were on the site as a PAH expert. This system worked for many years when PAH was relatively unknown and very few treatments were available. As more and more treatments became available and easier to prescribe and access, more physicians added their names to the list, many with very little experience or specialized PAH training. The list was very rarely updated and the information became out of date almost as soon as it was published.
The new system requires an extensive process of proving excellent knowledge, experience and skill at managing the care of pulmonary hypertension patients. Centers must demonstrate that they have experience with all types of treatments, offer research opportunities, have nurse coordinators dedicated to PAH, be able to care for patients in the office and hospital setting, have a multidisciplinary team and be associated with a lung transplant center. The PHA sends a visiting physician and nurse to each center to confirm all of the requirements are being met. The center applying to be a PAH Comprehensive Care Center must also pay a monetary fee.
The PHA also has plans to accredit Regional Clinical Programs. These centers will work with Comprehensive Care Centers to provide care for a larger population of PAH patients. The vetting process for RCPs requires them to be knowledgeable in managing PAH patients. The requirements are scaled back, not requiring as much office, hospital and multidisciplinary support and infrastructure as Comprehensive Care Centers. The PHA has moved back the start date for accepting applications for RCPs several times, most recently posting that they will begin the process in early 2017. Check back for an update to find out when and where the first RCP will be announced.
As of today there are 44 approved PAH Comprehensive Care Centers in 27 states. We have included a list of current centers below.
Arizona
Arizona Pulmonary Specialists, LTD
3330 North 2nd Street, #300
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Director: Jeremy Feldman, MD
Appointments: (602) 443-0184
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
California
Cottage Health System
Cottage Pulmonary Hypertension Center
2403 Castillo Street, Suite 206
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Director: Jeffrey S. Sager, MD
Appointments: (805) 898-8840
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
Stanford University
Stanford Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Chest Clinic 300 Pasteur Drive, A13, Ambulatory Care Clinic 2
M/C 5351
Stanford, CA 94305-5351
Director: Roham T. Zamanian, MD
Appointments: (650) 723-1474
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
UC Davis Health System
Advanced Lung Disease Program
2315 Stockton Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95817
Director: Roblee Allen, MD
Appointments: (916) 734-5360
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
University of California, at San Francisco Medical Center
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Pulmonary Hypertension Program
400 Parnassus Avenue
Level B-1, APL 094
San Francisco, CA 94143-0124
Director: Teresa De Marco, MD
Appointments: (415) 353-9088
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Colorado
University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
Pulmonary Hypertension Program
12605 E. 16th Ave, Room 3.2203
Aurora, CO 80045
Director: David Badesch, MD & Todd Bull, MD
Appointments: (720) 848-6518
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
Connecticut
Yale University School of Medicine
Yale Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Director: Wassim H. Fares, MD
Appointments: (203) 785-4196
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2018
Florida
Mayo Clinic Florida
Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Program
4500 San Pablo Road S
Jacksonville, FL 32224
Director: Charles D. Burger, MD
Appointments (Patient Line): (904) 953-2272
Appointments (Physician Line): (904) 953-0321
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Illinois
University of Chicago
Pulmonary Hypertension Program
5841 S. Maryland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Director: Remzi Bag, MD
Appointments: (773) 702-5589
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Iowa
University of Iowa
Heart and Vascular Center – Pulmonary Hypertension Program
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242
Director: Linda Cadaret, MD
Appointments: (319) 356-7102
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Kansas
The University of Kansas Hospital
University of Kansas Pulmonary Hypertension Program
3901 Rainbow Blvd
MS 3007
Kansas City, KS 66160
Director: Timothy Williamson, MD
Appointments: (913) 588-4098
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Kentucky
Kentuckiana Pulmonary Associates
100 West Market Street
Suite 2
Louisville, KY 40202
Director: John Wesley McConnell, MD
Appointments: (502) 587-8000
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
Louisiana
University Medical Center New Orleans
Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center
2025 Gravier Street, Suite 615
New Orleans, LA 70112
Directors: Matthew Lammi, MD & Shigeki Saito, MD
Appointments: (504) 702-5057
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Hypertension Program
601 North Caroline Street
7th Floor, Suite C
Baltimore, MD 21287
Director: Paul Hassoun, MD
Appointments: (410) 614-6311
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program | Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease Watkins Clinic – Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center
70 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Director: Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD
Appointments: (857) 307-4000
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Michigan
University of Michigan
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5853
Director: Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD
Appointments: (888) 287-1082
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic
200 1st Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905
Director: Robert P. Frantz, MD
Appointments: (502) 587-8000
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
University of Minnesota Health
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Director: Marc Pritzker, MD
Appointments: (612) 626-1376
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Missouri
Washington University at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
4921 Parkview Place
Suite B
St. Louis, MO 63110
Director: Murali M. Chakinala, MD
Appointments: (314) 454-8917
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
New York
Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Hospital
3959 Broadway
CH-2N, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
New York, NY 10032
Director: Erika Berman Rosenzweig, MD
Appointments: (212) 305-4436
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14642
Director: R. James White, MD, PhD
Appointments: (585) 486-0869
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Weill Cornell Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital
520 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
Director: Evelyn Horn, MD
Appointments: (212) 746-2381
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Pulmonary Hypertension Program
102 Mason Farm Road, CB 7020
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Director: H. James Ford, MD
Appointments: (984) 974-5775
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
Ohio
University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati Medical Center Pulmonary Hypertension Program
UC Health Physicians Office – Holmes Building
200 Albert Sabin Way
3rd Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45219
Director: Jean Elwing, MD
Appointments: (513) 475-8523
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
Oregon
The Oregon Clinic
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine – West
9155 SW Barnes Rd, Suite 840
Portland, OR 97225
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine – East
1111 NE 99th Ave, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97220
Director: John A. Butler, MD & Wayne Strauss, MD
Appointments (West): (503) 297-3778
Appointments (East): (503) 963-3030
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Health Network
Allegheny General Hospital
320 East North Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15212
Director: Raymond L. Benza, MD
Appointments: (412) 359-6739
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Harron Lung Center
3737 Market Street, 10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Director: Steven M. Kawut, MD, MS
Appointments: 800-789-PENN (7366)
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
UPMC Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Scaife Hall, Suite 5B. 200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Director: Stephen Y. Chan, MD, PhD
Appointments: (412) 647-3429
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Hospital – Brown University
Rhode Island Hospital Pulmonary Hypertension Center
375 Wampanoag Trail, Suite 302B
East Providence, RI 02915
Director: James Klinger, MD
Appointments: (401) 649-4070
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
Tennessee
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Vanderbilt Pulmonary Vascular Center
1301 Medical Center Drive
Nashville, TN 37212
Director: Ivan Robbins, MD
Appointments: (615) 322-5879
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Texas
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston Methodist Pulmonary Hypertension Program
6445 Main Street
Houston, TX 77030
Director: Zeenat Safdar, MD
Appointments: (713) 441-7182
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern Pulmonary Hypertension Program
5939 Harry Hines Blvd, Ste 600
Dallas, TX 75390
Director: Kelly M. Chin, MD, MSCS
Appointments (New Patients): (214) 645-8300
Appointments (Established Patients): (214) 645-5505
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
Utah
University of Utah
Pulmonary Hypertension & Dyspnea Center
50 N. Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84132
Directors: John J. Ryan, MD & Nathan Hatton, MD
Appointments: (801) 585-7676
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Virginia
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Inova Advanced Lung Disease Management Program
3300 Gallows Road
Falls Church, VA 20042
Directors: Steven D. Nathan, MD & Oksana A. Shlobin, MD
Appointments (New Patients): (703) 776-6168
Appointments (Established Patients): (703) 776-2986
Accreditation Period: 2014 – 2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
411 East Marshall Street
Richmond, VA 23298
Director: Dan Grinnan, MD
Appointments: (804) 828-2161
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2017
Washington
University of Washington
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
1959 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA 98195
Director: David D. Ralph, MD
Appointments: (206) 598-7356
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Wisconsin
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
4th Floor Galleria
2900 W. Oklahoma Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53215
Director: Dianne Zwicke, MD
Appointments: (414) 646-2438
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin
Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin Pulmonary Hypertension Service
9200 West Wisconsin
Suite E5200
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Director: Kenneth Presberg, MD
Appointments: (414) 805-6633
Accreditation Period: 2015 – 2018
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
University of Wisconsin Pulmonary Hypertension Program
600 Highland Avenue
MC9988
Madison, WI 53792
Director: James Runo, MD
Appointments: (608) 263-7203
Accreditation Period: 2016 – 2019
