Thomas DeCato, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an investigator at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation. He received his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and went on to complete Internal Medicine residency at the University of Washington, and a Fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah.
Dr. DeCato has extensive experience in pulmonary laboratory medicine utilizing the spectrum of pulmonary function testing and cardiopulmonary exercise testing and his clinical and research interests include the application of this to improve patient care, dyspnea, and quality of life. He is a member of the American Thoracic Society’s Pulmonary Function Testing Committee and the American College of Chest Physician’s Diffuse Lung Disease & Transplant NetWork, and both the Pulmonary physiology and rehabilitation Section and Domain Taskforce