Biography
1997 Stanford University; B.S. Biological Sciences
2001 University of Alabama at Birmingham; M.D.
2004-2007 Yale/New-Haven Hospital; Internship/Residency in Internal Medicine
2008-2011 Univ of California at San Francisco (UCSF); Fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
2011-2014 Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCSF
Associate Director, UCSF Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
2014-2020 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan; Department of Medicine
2020- Associate Professor, University of Michigan; Department of Medicine
Areas of Interest
1. Microbiome-host interactions in asthma pathogenesis and asthma phenotypes
2. Microbiome-host interactions in COPD pathogenesis and phenotypes
3. Effects of treatments (xenobiotics) on airway disease-associated microbiota
4. Multi-‘omics, computational modeling of microbiome interactions in asthma and COPD.
Honors & Awards
2001 Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
2002, 2004 Yale/Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholar in International Health
2009 First prize in clinical research, Sixth Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigator Forum
2016 Young Physician-Scientist Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation
2017 Science & Innovation Center Rising Star in Research, American Thoracic Society
2018 Early Career Achievement Award, Amer Thoracic Society Assembly on Allergy, Immunology & Inflammation
2019 Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science, American Thoracic Society
