Instructor of Medicine
MD - Harvard Medical School '97, MPH Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health '01
School of Medicine
Medicine
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Research Projects
Genetics of Asthma Severity and Lung Function Decline
Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized by episodic respiratory symptoms. Until recently, asthma was considered an essentially reversible disorder, but chronic airway inflammation in asthma is now thought to lead to structural alterations and irreversibility....
Prevalence of asthma and underlying risk factors in two Peruvian cities
Asthma was previously considered to be uncommon in Latin America; however, recent studies in different Latin American cities have identified that its prevalence currently ranges between 18% and 27%. These estimates are very high when compared with those reported in other developing countries and...
The Impact of African Dust on Childhood Asthma Morbidity in Barbados
Over the past several decades, as global climate changes have lead to excessively dry conditions and severe dust storms in Africa, asthma prevalence has risen in Barbados. The estimated prevalence of asthma among school-aged children has increased from 1% to 16% in the past 35 years.14;26 While...
