About the Event
In this installment of the Health Transformation Research Institute’s Senior Scientist Seminar Series, Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., MHS, presents “The Air You Breathe: When Your Neighborhood Determines Your Asthma Risk.”
Matsui is a pediatric allergist-immunologist, epidemiologist and leading international expert on environmental exposures and their effects on asthma and other allergic conditions. She is a professor in the departments of Population Health and Pediatrics at Dell Medical School, where she also serves as the associate dean for faculty academic affairs. Matsui directs a long-standing NIH-funded research program at the intersection of environmental health and lung disease disparities and has held leadership roles in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has served on a variety of federal panels, including National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committees focused on the health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution.
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The target audience for this event includes students, trainees, early career faculty, staff and the UT community at large. Anyone who anticipates having a substantial scope of research activity in their career paths can learn from these experienced clinician-scientists.
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