Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Butsch Kovacic received her master of public health from Harvard University and her PhD from The Ohio State University. One of Dr. Butsch Kovacic’s long-term goals is to improve the understanding of how the environment modifies chronic disease risk in genetically and/or economically vulnerable children. To this end, she is the PI of an ongoing study that is evaluating associations between environmental exposures and biomarkers of oxidative stress and whether or not these biomarkers will better predict risk of severe/uncontrolled childhood asthma compared to parental report of exposure alone (previous NIEHS R21 and CCTST KL2).
melinda.butsch.kovacic@cchmc.org