She is a Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine.
Dr. Catherine M. Stein’s primary research focus on genetic and environmental susceptibility to tuberculosis, specifically the genomics of resistance and how genetic variation in both humans and the tuberculosis pathogen influence TB severity. Dr. Stein also works on speech-sound disorder, building upon more than two decades of Case Western Reserve University study. Additionally, she has developed R software called “strum” to apply multivariate methods to the analysis of related traits, genes, and clinical covariates in family data. She collaborates on various studies at UCRC including the paediatric immunity to TB, resistance to tuberculosis study among exposed adults and the bronchoscopy studies in adults in high TB settings.