Esteban González Burchard is a Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Burchard received his M.D. degree and genetic training from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995. He completed clinical training in internal medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine training at UCSF. Dr. Burchard also completed clinical research training at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He joined the UCSF faculty in 2001. Dr. Burchard completed additional training in genetic epidemiology with Dr. Neil Risch of Stanford University. In 2006 he received his master’s in public health in epidemiology from University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Burchard’s major academic interest centers on identifying genetic, social and environmental risk factors for asthma and drug response in children.
