Priorities of Masih Daneshvari Hospital

Research institute of tuberculosis and lung disease
1- Asthma, COPD, ILD, sarcoidosis, air ways and pulmonary infections
2- TB, MDR-TB, TB/HIV (epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment)
3- Pediatric chronic pulmonary diseases
4- Air pollution
5- Pulmonary occupational diseases
6- Primary hypertension, Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
7- Methods of pain relief following thoracotomy
8- Pulmonary and thoracic pathology, immunohistochemistry, flowcytometry, molecular biology
9- Reducing drug complications, producing new drugs and assessing their efficacy
10- Oncology of thorax
11- Different methods of thoracic surgery and surgical operation of common diseases

Research institute of basic mycobacteriology
1- New methods for laboratory diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis
2- Molecular epidemiology

Research institute of prevention and control of tobacco/smoking
1- Preventing tobacco use among general population, especially young adults
2- Tobacco control and different methods of smoking cessation

Research institute of lung transplantation
1- Preventing diseases requiring lung transplant and keeping the lungs healthy
2- Evaluation of the cultural factors that have an impact on lung transplantation
3- Diagnosis of cases requiring lung transplant and their treatment modalities
4- How to maintain the health of a transplanted lung

Research institute of tracheal diseases
1- Evaluation of different pulmonary causes of tracheal stenosis
2-Different surgical procedures for treatment of patients with tracheal stenosis