James G. Zangrilli MD
Director
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Dr. Salvatore Mangione
Co-Director
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1015 Chestnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA 19107
The Jefferson Asthma Center serves as a regional resource for patients and referring physicians with asthma. The center is
staffed by a multidisciplinary team including physicians with special expertise in asthma, asthma educators, medical/respiratory
technologists, and research fellows. The center offers comprehensive services related to asthma diagnosis, treatment, and
patient education. Specialized services on site include pulmonary function testing, testing for airways hyperreactivity,
skin testing for aeroallergens, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and testing for vocal cord dysfunction.
Formal relationships exist with essential subspecialists in speech pathology, ENT, gastroenterology, and integrative medicine
in order to expedite care of patients with vocal cord dysfunction, reflux, and stress related disease.
The center is actively involved in clinical and laboratory research related to asthma that can be discussed with interested
patients.
For more information or appointments
Phone: 215-955-5163
FAX: 215-923-6003
News:Physicians at Jefferson’s Children’s Health Center Offer Asthma Education Day
Free Flu Shots for Children with Asthma
(Published 11-3-05) A fun-filled educational day for children with asthma to teach them about this all-too-common condition
and how to manage it. A special highlight will be a live rap performance by No Puff Daddy, a youth health educator and inspirational
rap artist, tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m.
Featured in the Media:
Asthma drugs getting scrutiny
(Published 4-14-05, Philadelphia Inquirer) The recommendation that adults with mild asthma take medication every day to control
the disease might be unnecessary, a new study suggests.
Patients with mild persistent asthma who went without inhaled steroids or other daily medication had no more frequent asthma
flare-ups than and had equally good lung function as patients who used the drugs.The study included patients at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. It calls into question treatment guidelines issued in
1997 by a federal panel that recommend daily medication for patients with mild persistent asthma, whether or not they have
symptoms at the moment."We're not trying to say the guidelines are wrong," said Frank T. Leone, a Jefferson University Hospital pulmonologist who
was a coauthor of the study. "But it's important for us to look at where the threshold is," between those who can benefit
from daily medication and those who can do fine without it.
Media Coverage:
Philadelphia Inquirer
Specialized Asthma Clinic Opens at Thomas Jefferson University
(Published 2-11-2005) To help the growing number of asthma sufferers who have what is considered complicated asthma, the Division
of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Thomas Jefferson University has opened a new outpatient clinic dedicated exclusively to
helping asthma sufferers.
