Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
George Retsch-Bogart, MD is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a member of the faculty and CF Care Center since 1989, serving as Associate Director of UNC CF Care Center since 1994. He is Medical Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Center, which is a part of North Carolina TraCS Institute.
He has been part of the CF Foundation’s Therapeutics Development Network (TDN) since its founding in 1989, and currently is the Faculty Director of Network Operations at the TDN Coordinating Center at Seattle Children’s Research Institute to support the network of 90 sites and links with the European CF Clinical Trials Network and CanACT, the network supported by CF Canada. He also serves as the current Chair of the CF TDN Clinical Research Executive Committee which oversees the TDN’s activities and sanctions the clinical research conducted in the Network.
In addition to co-leading the CF clinical research team at UNC, he has served as lead PI for studies leading to the approval of Aztreonam solution for inhalation and Co-PI for two large multicenter trials exploring eradication and reduction of exacerbations in children with newly acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (EPIC Clinical and OPTIMIZE).