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Professor
University of California San Francisco
Dr. Burchard is a Latino physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and Medicine. Dr. Burchard has formal training and expertise in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine, epidemiology, molecular genetics, genetic and clinical research. He initiated and now directs the largest study of asthma in minority children in the U.S. Dr. Burchard is the Director of the UCSF Asthma Collaboratory, a large interdisciplinary research program that focuses on minority children and gene-environment interactions for asthma.
Dr. Burchard’s team was the first to leverage genetic ancestry to identify novel genetic and environmental risk factors for lung disease and poor drug response among minority children with asthma. He is the Principal Investigator of the Asthma Translational Genomics Collaborative (ATGC), the largest whole-genome sequencing study of asthma in the world. Dr. Burchard is also the Principal Investigator of PRIMERO: Puerto Rican Infant Metagenomic and Epidemiologic study of Respiratory Outcomes, the largest birth cohort of minority children and respiratory disease in the U.S. Dr. Burchard has served as an advisor to the Director for the National Institutes of Health All of Us initiative. In August of 2018, Dr. Burchard received the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Medical Foundation and was inducted into San Francisco State University’s Alumni Hall of Fame.
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Monday, January 10, 2022
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM ET
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