After spending a year as a research fellow at University of Bern in the Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Division, she completed a pediatric residency at University of Hawaii. She continued her education in respiratory medicine with a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at UC San Diego.Dr. Cernelc-Kohan's clinical interests include BPD, asthma and primary ciliary dyskinesia. Her research focuses on extracellular vesicles in lung fibrosis.