Refer a Patient: Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Berkeley

Our goal is to ensure a comprehensive ILD clinic visit. After receiving your patient's materials, we'll review them, determine if further testing or records are needed, and then call the patient to make an appointment.

How to refer

Please gather the following records:

A completed referral form.
Your patient's medical history.
Reports of all high-resolution chest CT scans, current and past. Current CT scan should have been performed within approximately the last three months, using our program’s protocol for high-resolution chest CT scans.
Report of patient's most recent full pulmonary function test (done within approximately the last three months), including spirometry, lung volumes and diffusion capacity.
Pathology report from lung biopsy, if applicable.

What to expect

Once an appointment has been scheduled, we'll send your patient a new-patient packet. It contains directions to our clinic, a description of what to expect at the visit and a questionnaire.

What to bring to the appointment

Patients should bring:

The completed new patient questionnaire.
Current CT scans (taken within the past three months), as well as past scans, on a CD. These can be requested through the radiology department of the facility where the scans were performed. The new-patient packet includes a radiology release form for the patient's convenience.
Any other records the patient was asked to bring.

If your patient had a lung biopsy, we'll work with the pathology department that performed the biopsy to have the slides sent to us before the first appointment. Occasionally, however, we ask patients to bring the slides with them. We'll discuss that with the patient when scheduling the appointment.

Follow-up care

You'll continue to be the primary treating doctor for your patient. The ILD doctors will speak with you within a few days of your patient's visit and provide recommendations directly to you. We'll also call your patient to discuss the diagnosis.

We'll mail a detailed consultation letter to you and your patient one to two weeks after the appointment.