Dr. Corey Ventetuolo, a Bristol resident, has been named director of clinical research for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital.

Dr. Ventetuolo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine. After finishing an internal medicine residency at Brown University, she completed pulmonary and critical care fellowship training at Columbia University. During fellowship, she earned a master’s degree in biostatistics and patient-oriented research at the Mailman School of Public Health, and received specialized pulmonary vascular disease training at the University of Colorado and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Since her return to Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital in 2011, Dr. Ventetuolo became the director of the adult extra-corporeal life support program (ECMO), where she expanded the region’s program to include novel applications in patients with pulmonary hypertension. As associate director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Rhode Island Hospital, her grant-based research focuses on the role of gender and sex hormones and their influence on pulmonary vascular and right heart function, as well as the study of unique predictors of right ventricular function.