Ganesh Raghu

Dr. Ganesh Raghu is an Adjunct Professor in Laboratory Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, as well as the Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease/Sarcoid/Pulmonary Fibrosis Program at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He focuses his clinical research in key areas: the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung diseases (ILD), the significance of gastroesophageal reflux in the management of ILD and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (PF), the role of HRCT and lung biopsy in IPF, the role of HRCT and lung biopsy in IPF genetic predisposition o idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and familial IPF management of sarcoidosis, and outcome measures in lPF and lung transplantation. Dr. Raghu is received his medical degree from the Mysore Medical College in India where he also did his internship. He completed his residency in General Medicine and Chest Medicine at Hartlepool General Hospital and Medical Center at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. He also completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the State University of New York in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Raghu's fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Lung Cell Biology were at the University of Washington.