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Sangeeta Bhorade

May 21, 2019

Veracyte has hired Sangeeta Bhorade as medical director of pulmonology to lead medical affairs for the firm's pulmonology products. Bhorade joins Veracyte from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she served as professor of medicine and medical director of the lung transplant program. Prior to Northwestern, Bhorade served as medical director of the lung transplant program at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She has also served as associate medical director of lung transplant at Loyola University Chicago.

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