Dr. Rebecca Hough

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Rebecca Hough is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University, specializing in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She treats children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and focuses on recovering from surgical procedures related to neurosurgical and orthopedic conditions, organ transplants, trauma, and respiratory or cardiovascular failure. Dr. Hough is a physician-scientist with research interests in the origins of pulmonary edema in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). She earned her Ph.D. in Biophysics in 2008 and her M.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she was part of the esteemed Medical Scientist Training Program. After completing her residency and fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, she began her faculty position in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, where she focuses on understanding the early events of Acute Lung Injury and ARDS, which has significant mortality rates among affected children. Her research aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying ARDS in hopes of developing targeted therapies to alleviate morbidity and mortality.

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