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Josalyn Cho, MD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine

Introduction

Dr. Cho's clinical interests include critical care and general pulmonary disease. Her research focuses on understanding the immunologic mechanisms of pulmonary disease. Specifically, her laboratory utilizes basic models of disease and translational studies to investigate innate and adaptive immune responses during viral infection and asthma.

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
  • Director, Iowa Inflammation Program
  • Co-Director, Center for Immunology and Immune-based Diseases

Education

  • MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Graduate Program Affiliations

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Licenses & Certifications

  • Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
  • Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine

Selected Publications

  • Causton, B., Pardo-Saganta, A., Gillis, J., Discipio, K., Kooistra, T., Rajagopal, J., Xavier, R. J., Cho, J. L. & Medoff, B. D. (2018). CARMA3 Mediates Allergic Lung Inflammation in Response to Alternaria alternata. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 59 (6) 684-694. PMCID: PMC6293075.
  • Cho, J. L. & Medoff, B. D. (2018). Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Back to the Basics. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 198 (10) 1241-1242. PMID: 30011221.
  • Adams, D. C., Pahlevaninezhad, H., Szabari, M. V., Cho, J. L., Hamilos, D. L., Kesimer, M., Boucher, R. C., Luster, A. D., Medoff, B. D. & Suter, M. J. (2017). Automated segmentation and quantification of airway mucus with endobronchial optical coherence tomography. Biomedical optics express 8 (10) 4729-4741. PMCID: PMC5654813.
  • Afshar, R., Griffith, J. W., Harris, R. S., Ng, A., Radicioni, G., Ford, A. A., Han, A. K., Xavier, R., Kwok, W. W., Boucher, R., Moon, J. J., Hamilos, D. L., Kesimer, M., Suter, M. J., Medoff, B. D., Luster, A. D., Islam, S. A., Cho, J. L., Ling, M. F., Adams, D. C. & Faustino, L. (2016). Allergic asthma is distinguished by sensitivity of allergen-specific CD4+ T cells and airway structural cells to type 2 inflammation. Science translational medicine 8 (359) 359ra132. PMID: 27708065.
  • Adams, D. C., Hariri, L. P., Miller, A. J., Wang, Y., Cho, J. L., Villiger, M., Holz, J. A., Szabari, M. V., Hamilos, D. L., Scott Harris, R., Griffith, J. W., Bouma, B. E., Luster, A. D., Medoff, B. D. & Suter, M. J. (2016). Birefringence microscopy platform for assessing airway smooth muscle structure and function in vivo. Science translational medicine 8 (359) 359ra131. PMCID: PMC5389120.
  • Kleinsteuber, K., Corleis, B., Rashidi, N., Nchinda, N., Lisanti, A., Cho, J. L., Medoff, B. D., Kwon, D. & Walker, B. D. (2016). Standardization and quality control for high-dimensional mass cytometry studies of human samples. Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology 89 (10) 903-913. PMCID: PMC5495108.
  • Kelly, V. J., Winkler, T., Venegas, J. G., Kone, M., Hamilos, D. L., Afshar, R., Cho, J. L., Luster, A. D., Medoff, B. D. & Harris, R. S. (2015). Allergic Non-Asthmatic Adults Have Regional Pulmonary Responses to Segmental Allergen Challenge. PloS one 10 (12) e0143976. PMCID: PMC4671597.
  • Cho, J. L., McDermott, S., Tsibris, A. M. & Mark, E. J. (2015). CASE RECORDS of the MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. Case 37-2015. A 76-Year-Old Man with Fevers, Leukopenia, and Pulmonary Infiltrates. The New England journal of medicine 373 (22) 2162-72. PMID: 26605931.
  • Causton, B., Ramadas, R. A., Cho, J. L., Jones, K., Pardo-Saganta, A., Rajagopal, J., Xavier, R. J. & Medoff, B. D. (2015). CARMA3 Is Critical for the Initiation of Allergic Airway Inflammation. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 195 (2) 683-94. PMCID: PMC4489191.
  • Cho, J. L. & Medoff, B. D. (2015). Lung T cells in HIV infection. Driven to exhaustion?. (Vols. 191). (4), pp. 370-1. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. PMID: 25679103.

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