Ganesh Raghu

Ganesh Raghu, MD, is a board-certified physician at UW Medical Center, director of the UW Interstitial Lung Disease/Sarcoid/Pulmonary Fibrosis Program, Co-Director of the UW Medicine Scleroderma Clinic, a UW professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and an adjunct professor of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Raghu also previously served as the Director and Medical Director of the UW Medicine Lung Transplant Program, which he founded in 1991. Dr. Raghu earned his medical degree from Mysore Medical College in India. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Critical Care. Dr. Raghu’s 30+ years of research is devoted to both basic science (lung fibroblast and extracellular matrix) and translational and clinical studies in the field of pulmonary fibrosis, idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and sarcoid. Dr. Raghu has had a longstanding clinical and scientific interest focused on pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD), idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP), Sarcoid, Rheumatological lung diseases, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He is an international authority in these disorders and has authored over 300 original articles which have been published in peer reviewed medical journals. Dr. Raghu serves on several national and international committees for management of ILD and IPF as well as in the National institute’s of Health (NIH,USA) lung biology and pathology study section. Above all, Dr. Raghu is a longstanding patient advocate and actively sees and manages patients with ILD every week at the Center for ILD at University of Washington.