I am a Professor of Pulmonary and Occupational Medicine with a master’s degree in public health. I have been a member of the academic faculty in the Departments of Medicine at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine for over 30 years. I have a secondary faculty appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health. My clinical and research interests focus on diagnosis, treatment, exposure assessment, and prevention of occupational and environmental lung diseases including the pneumoconioses (silicosis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis), and those related to military deployment in Southwest Asia. In addition to my busy Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease clinic, I have had sustained federal funding for clinical research in these areas as well as national leadership positions to define research priorities and clinical guidelines. I am committed to training the next generation of clinician-educators and physician-scientists, and continue to build multi-institutional clinical and research programs and collaborations in these areas of interest.
Cecile Rose is a pulmonologist and occupational/environmental medicine physician in Denver at National Jewish Health. Dr. Rose specializes in pneumoconiosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, silicosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis and respiratory illnesses affecting post-9/11 veterans. She is the Medical Director for the Colorado Miners Clinic, the Center of Excellence for Silicosis & its Prevention Program and the Center of Excellence on Deployment-Related Lung Disease.
Dr. Rose has been involved in collaborative research on mining-related lung diseases including silicosis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis; on silicosis in stone fabricators; and on diagnosis, treatment and pathogenesis of respiratory diseases from hazardous exposures during military deployment. Other research interests have been on the noninfectious granulomatous lung diseases including sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis (with particular focus on hot tub, swimming pool and bioaerosol-related cases). View Current Projects
Dr. Rose has a long-standing interest in occupational and environmental lung diseases. She has particular experience in military deployment-related respiratory diseases, hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), and in the pneumoconioses, including diagnosis, causation, management and prevention.