Christian Rosas-Salazar, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine and a clinical translational investigator at the Center for Asthma Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also co-directs the Specialized Program for Asthma Care in Kids, a multidisciplinary program that provides personalized care to children with severe asthma at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Dr. Rosas-Salazar received his medical degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. He then completed a pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He is also a graduate of the Master of Public Health Program and the Career Education and Enhancement of Health Care Research Diversity Program of the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Rosas-Salazar is committed to identifying and better understanding pre-, peri- and postnatal  risk factors for the development of childhood respiratory diseases with the ultimate goal of designing primary prevention strategies for these conditions. His current research program focuses on examining the role of the early-life respiratory and gut microbiome in the programming of the immune response, the severity of acute respiratory infections, and the origins of childhood asthma through a combination of patient-oriented research, next-generation sequencing, high-throughput immunoassays, novel bioinformatics, and other state-of-the-art technologies. His contributions to research have been recognized by honors from the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, among others. His scientific program has been supported by funds from the Parker B. Francis Fellowship; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes of the National Institutes of Health.