Dr. Christenson is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine where she serves as an attending physician in the Pulmonary Clinic and on the Consult Service. Dr. Christenson’s research program integrates  genomics/bioinformatics and clinical research to study chronic airway disease. Dr. Christenson also serves in multiple leadership roles for multi-center studies and advises industry on trials of biologic and inhaled therapies for COPD. Leadership roles include co-director of the Genetics and Genomics Subcommittee for the multi-center SPIROMICS and SOURCE studies, the UCSF site PI for the American Lung Association (ALA) Airway Clinical Research Consortium, and co-Chair for the NHGRI-funded Multi-Omics in Health and Disease (MOHD) Consortium.