Lung Health and the Exposome: How Environmental Factors Influence Lung Health

Dr. Pennington completed her undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University. Following this, she completed her medical school and Internal Medicine residency training at The Ohio State University. Then she completed her Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She joined the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute after fellowship practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, working in the ICU and in the Asthma Center at Cleveland Clinic. An assistant professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, her main clinical interest is in asthma, including outcomes research and clinical trials to bring new treatments to asthma patients. She is active in the NIH Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) and Precision Interventions for Severe Asthma (PrecISE) Network. She is also active in the American Thoracic Society in the Assembly on Allergy, Inflammation and Immunology.

Dr. Khatri completed her medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, with post graduate training at Loyola University Hospital and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine training at Cleveland Clinic. She is a Professor of Medicine, Director of the Asthma Center, and Vice Chair of the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She co-edited and published the Clinics in Chest Medicine edition of Asthma (March 2019), and is a public health advocate working in partnership with non-profit organizations and the American Thoracic Society, active in clinical trials regarding biologic therapies, and is a research collaborator in the NIH Asthma Research Network.