THE FACTS ABOUT PULMONARY FIBROSIS
September is National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month and more than 200,000 Americans are living with pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease with no known cure. In this episode, we are going to learn the symptoms, risk factors, and treatment options and why early diagnosis is so important. My special guest is – SONYE DANOFF, MD, Ph.D., Senior Medical Advisor for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) Care Center Network and PFF Patient Registry; Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Co-Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic at Johns Hopkins University.
SONYE DANOFF:
Dr. Sonye Danoff is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Co-Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease/Pulmonary Fibrosis Program, and Associate Director of the Myositis Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Danoff is an expert on Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network; Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Network and Interstitial Lung Disease.
September every year is is the PFF presents Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month.
