Amisha Barochia MD

Dr. Amisha Barochia completed medical school at Krishna Institutes of Medical Sciences (Shivaji University, 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 Master's 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 the Pulmonary Consult Service at the NIHCC and is the NIH site director for the joint NHLBI/University of Maryland Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program.