Dr. Michael H. Cho, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cho received his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and MD at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center pulmonary and critical medicine at the Harvard Combined Program, and received his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Cho studies the role of genetics and other omics in the susceptibility and heterogeneity of chronic lung disease. He has led or co-led large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and sequencing studies in COPD, interstitial lung abnormalities, and related phenotypes; the development of polygenic risk scores in COPD and IPF; and functional and integrative omics studies of COPD risk loci. He is a past chair of the American Thoracic Society Section of Genetics and Genomics, leads the Genetics group of the International COPD Genetics Consortium.