Rose Laboratory

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 35 years. I have an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health 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 Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease clinical practice, 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.

Resources & Services

• Center for Deployment-related Lung Disease: The Center team is focused on clinical care for veterans and contractors with persistent respiratory symptoms following military deployment to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan.   Research on deployment-related respiratory diseases includes epidemiology, exposure assessment, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and longitudinal outcomes in previously deployed military personnel.
• Miners Clinic and related clinical/research programs on silicosis, Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis, and other dust diseases of the lung: The Miners Clinic at National Jewish Health is a federally funded program that provides medical screening, referral, benefits counseling and Black Lung exams for western miners.  Our Pneumoconiosis research focuses on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, mineralogy, histopathology, longitudinal outcomes and prevention of pneumoconiosis in U.S. miners, uranium industry workers, engineered stone fabricators and other exposed occupational groups.
• Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease Clinic:  This subspecialty clinic centers on the diagnosis, treatment, counseling, and exposure assessment/control for environmental and occupational lung diseases, particularly pneumoconioses (e.g., silicosis, silicosarcoidosis, coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, and Dept. of Labor Black Lung exams), and post-9/11 deployment-related respiratory diseases.