Assistant Professor
National Jewish Health
Katie Hisert, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the division of Adult Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO, USA. Focused on helping people with CF through both her clinical practice and translational research program, Katie's over-arching research goal is to better understand chronic bacterial airway infections and associated inflammation that occur in the CF airway. Katie grew up in Berkeley, California, received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Brown University, and then moved to Manhattan where she completed a combined MD-PhD degree at the Weill Cornell /Rockefeller/ Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD- PhD Program. She performed residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and fellowship training in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at University of Washington in Seattle. She joined the faculty at University of Washington in 2016, focusing her clinical practice on care of people with cystic fibrosis. In August 2019, Katie moved to National Jewish Health where she continues to treat adult patients with CF and to build her research program. Katie is currently studying how heterogeneous monocyte and macrophage populations contribute to CF airways disease, and why people with CF demonstrate increased susceptibility to pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterium infections.