Amisha Barochia, MBBS, MHS, ATSF

Dr. Amisha Barochia completed medical school at Krishna Institutes of Medical Sciences (Shivaji Universtiy, Kolhapur, India) and residency training at Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon. After a year as Chief Resident, she underwent Critical Care Medicine fellowship training at the NIH Clinical Center, and Pulmonary fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. She then joined the faculty of the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center until 2012, when she moved to the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. During her fellowship, she also pursued a Masters in Clinical Research through the joint NIH/Duke University Program. She is now an Associate Research Physician in the Laboratory of Asthma and Lung Inflammation.

Dr. Barochia has an interest in severe asthma, and the pathobiological mechanisms that underlie severe asthma. She is the principal investigator for the Longitudinal Observational Study of Severe Asthma (NCT01780142), and an associate investigator on several other protocols at the NIH Clinical Center. In addition, Dr. Barochia attends on the Pulmonary Consult Service at the NIH CC, and is the NIH site director for the joint NHLBI/University of Maryland Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program.

Publications

Serum levels of small HDL particles are negatively correlated with death or lung transplantation in an observational study of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Airflow Obstruction in Adults with Williams Syndrome and Mice with Elastin Insufficiency

Use of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide to Guide the Treatment of Asthma: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline

Harmonized outcome measures for use in asthma patient registries and clinical practice

High density lipoproteins and type 2 inflammatory biomarkers are negatively correlated in atopic asthmatics