Niru Putcha, MD MHS is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr Putcha received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, medical degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham, and Masters of Health Sciences in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Putcha’s research has studied factors that impact morbidity in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). She has studied comorbid chronic diseases, and their relationship to COPD outcomes. Additionally, she has studied the contribution of home environmental exposures to worsening outcomes in patients with COPD including patients recently hospitalized for COPD exacerbations at high risk for readmission to the hospital. Finally, she is the lead investigator for the COPD-OMA trial, conducted by ALA-ACRC, to test whether omalizumab reduces exacerbations and improves symptoms in patients with COPD having allergic disease (comorbidity) as well as exposure to allergens in the home. She is also active in the COPDGene and SPIROMICS studies as a co-investigator and active in the American Thoracic Society.
