CF Nurse Coordinator
The NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s CF Center
Rebecca Kowal, MSN, RN has been working as the CF Nurse Coordinator at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital's Pediatric CF Clinic since August 2020. She first became interested in CF after a friend was diagnosed in middle school. In high school, Rebecca did a 3-year independent study of CF that culminated in benchwork at a membrane physiology laboratory at Rockefeller University that was investigating the gating mechanism of the CFTR protein ion channel. Many years and several post-secondary school degrees later, Rebecca is thrilled to have rejoined the CF community, this time in a nursing capacity.