Cheryl Pirozzi

Cheryl Pirozzi is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. She specializes in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with clinical locations at University of Utah Hospital and Sugar House Health Center.

Her research focuses on the intersection of air pollution exposure and respiratory diseases, particularly COPD and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. She actively collaborates with the SPIROMICS cohort to investigate environmental and genetic contributors to lung disease progression.

• Key Article Trends: Long-term ozone effects on smokers, indoor air quality modeling, vaping-related lung injury, vitamin D's role in COPD exacerbations, and biomarker development for genetic lung diseases.