Dr. Bernadette Gochuico is an Attending Pulmonologist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gochuico graduated from Boston University School of Medicine, completed an Internship, Residency, and Chief Medical Residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, and then was trained as a fellow in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. During medical school and post-graduate training, she received several honors and awards. She was recently honored as the recipient of the William J. Martin II Distinguished Achievement Award at the ATS 2009 International Conference.
At the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Gochuico initiated and developed a translational program to study subpopulations of pulmonary fibrosis. Her research focusing on pulmonary fibrosis has generated several publications that improve the understanding of pathogenic mechanisms of subclinical and symptomatic pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Gochuico is currently a Principal or Associate Investigator of clinical protocols focusing on the pulmonary fibrosis of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.
