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Raksha Jain, MD, MSc

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Raksha Jain, MD, Msc is a Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She completed her Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation at Washington University and joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 2010, where she serves as Medical Director of the CF and Bronchiectasis Program.

Dr. Jain focuses much of her research on women’s health in bronchiectasis. She has been working to understand the etiologies behind the sex disparity observed in CF and other airway diseases using a translational approach with a focus on the role of estrogen. Her interest in estrogen led to studies of pregnancy, where she is co-leading a large investigator initiated multicenter prospective study of pregnancy in females with CF (MAYFLOWERS). She has been awarded CF Foundation and NIH grants and is fostering studies of women’s health in the larger community by serving as Chair of the CFF TDN Sexual health, reproduction and gender research (SHARING) working group

Dr. Jain has also made significant contributions to therapeutic development for people with CF. She has led multiple local and investigator-initiated and industry clinical trials in CF and is serving on the CFF clinical research executive committee and the CFF registry committee.

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