Asthma Center

We provide state-of-the-art services personalized to meet the unique needs of each individual patient and our multidisciplinary team focused on providing comprehensive treatment to our patients. The treatment we provide is evidence-based yet tailored to each patient’s needs and values. This approach ensures the most advanced asthma treatment and management options currently available.

Our goal is to help you maintain close to normal activity levels while taking the lowest dose of medicine needed to control your asthma. Our physicians are board certified and have special training in the care and management of asthma. Your care will be based on the most up to date treatment guidelines combined with our clinical experience.

We will assess your symptoms and medication use at each visit and adjust your treatment plan as needed. You will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a certified asthma educator, who will develop a personalized asthma action plan for you to follow at home. You will learn how to manage your asthma and what to do if it gets worse. Our team will communicate their findings and send a copy of your personalized asthma plan to your primary care provider.

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We will assess your symptoms and medication use at each visit and adjust your treatment plan as needed. You will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a certified asthma educator, who will develop a personalized asthma action plan for you to follow at home. You will learn how to manage your asthma and what to do if it gets worse. Our team will communicate their findings and send a copy of your personalized asthma plan to your primary care provider.

We also offer several specialized asthma programs:

Personalized Asthma Care and Education (PACE Program)

Personalized Asthma Care and Education (PACE program) This 4-visit program is perfect for patients wanting a comprehensive evaluation by an asthma specialist and one-on-one asthma education while receiving on-going asthma care through their primary provider. We offer state of the art diagnostic testing and treatments including measurement of exhaled nitric oxide, assessment for therapy with biologic agents and assessment for bronchial thermoplasty. You can learn more about bronchial thermoplasty at: www.btforasthma.com.

Asthma in Athletes

This program is geared to the competitive or recreational athlete experiencing shortness of breath, cough, wheezing or reduced endurance during physical activity. We offer specialized testing for exercise-induced asthma called a Eucapneic Hyperventilation Test (EVH). EVH is one of the most sensitive tests for exercise-induced asthma and is often used in testing of elite athletes. The test involves a hyperventilation challenge meant to simulate high-intensity exercise. Lung function is then measured after the hyperventilation challenge. People with exercise-induced asthma will experience a decrease in lung function after the challenge. Click here to watch a short video of an EVH test.

Refractory (Severe) Asthma

This program is ideal for those with difficult to control asthma. The asthma team provides on-going care and up to date treatments to reduce asthma symptoms and improve quality of life.

Women and Asthma

This program is tailored to managing asthma in women especially during pregnancy. During pregnancy, you are breathing for you and your baby so asthma control is important.  Some women will notice more asthma problems when they are pregnant, but others will feel better.  There is no way to know who will have breathing problems or flare-ups during pregnancy.

The Asthma Center at The Oregon Clinic strongly believes in patient care is improved by high-quality research studies. We participate in high-quality patient-centered research aimed at improving the lives of people with asthma.

Our participation in cutting-edge research allows us to offer new therapies to our asthma patients. A clinical trial is a research study that tests new medicines, treatments or tests. If selected for a clinical trial, volunteers receive the study medicine, treatments or tests free of charge.

Also, all medical evaluations and tests performed by the clinical trials researchers are free of charge and reimbursement may be given for parking and/or travel expenses. Visit the National Institutes of Health for more information on clinical research.

Are you a health professional?

Click here for a list of studies we currently have underway. We appreciate your interest in advancing the field of pulmonary medicine through research.