Clement L. Ren, M.D.

Professional Bio

Dr. Ren received his AB in Biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley and his MD from the Univerity of Chicago. He completed a pediatric residency and fellowship in allergy/immunology at the Children's Hospital in Boston. He completed a second fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. He arrived in Rochester in 2001 to serve as the chief of pediatric pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center co-director. His research focus in on the application of infant and young child pulmonary function testing to the study of pediatric respiratory diseases, such as bronchiolitis and CF. He is active in the CF Foundation, American Thoracic Society, and American College of Chest Physicians. He has served in key leadership positions in all 3 of these organizations and is an active participant in their annual conferences.

Patient Care Bio

Dr. Ren specializes in children's breathing problems. His special expertise is in lung function testing in infants and young children, and Golisano Chilren's Hospital is one of the few places in the country capable of measuring lung function in infants and children of all ages. Conditions that Dr. Ren focuses on include cystic fibrosis, asthma, wheezy infants, bronchiolitis, and bronchitis. His approach to patient care is to work with patients and families through a step by step process to determine the cause of the patient's problems and then devise a treatment plan to take care of the problem. Throughout this process, the patient, the family, and the health care team work together to achieve the common goal of maintaining lung health.