Eugene R. Bleecker

Eugene R. Bleecker, MD, has been Professor of Medicine and Co-Chief of the Division of Genetics and the Division of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Arizona since January 2017. Prior to that, he was a professor and director of the Center for Human Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, the Thomas H. Davis Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, and professor of translational sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, as well as professor of public health and pediatrics at Wake Forest University Health Sciences.

Dr. Bleecker completed a fellowship at the NIH Gerontology Research Center, and a fellowship in pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine in the Department of Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Bleecker is a member of several professional societies and is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, and American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 abstracts and more than 310 scientific manuscripts, reviews, and book chapters. His research interests include translational approaches in respiratory medicine, pathogenesis and disease heterogeneity of asthma and COPD, and genomics of asthma, allergy, and COPD.