About
Dr. Ronish is a board-certified pulmonologist and occupational and environmental medicine specialist at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She is currently the medical director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, where she supervises and teaches residents and manages patients with a variety of occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses.
Dr. Ronish's current clinical interests include occupational lung disease, chemical and environmental exposures (heavy metals, mold, chemical exposures), complex polytrauma, long-Covid-related lung disease, and general pulmonology and occupational medicine. She has also collaborated with the Department of Health to do medical screenings for patients exposed to environmental contaminants in drinking water (specifically PFAS) and provides risk communications for patients with suspected chemical exposures.
Through the UW School of Public Health, Dr. Ronish works closely with Occupational and Environmental Medicine residents, acting as an academic adviser on graduate theses, capstone projects and quality improvement projects. She collaborates frequently with industrial hygienists in her clinic and through DEOHS and is constantly looking for the next improvement project for the clinic or collaboration opportunity.