About The Chair

Krystal Craddock, BSRC, RRT-NPS, AE-C, CCM

Krystal started her career in respiratory therapy over 10 years ago. Since 2012 she has worked in the ROAD program as a COPD Case Manager at the University of California Davis Medical Center, and currently supervises this program. As a Respiratory Case Manager, she provides education to COPD patients during their hospital admission and coordination of follow up and continuing care at discharge and beyond. She has been awarded the Charles W. Serby COPD Research Fellowship Award in 2013 and Mike B. West Patient Education Award in 2016. She is on the RT Magazine advisory board for her expertise in COPD patient care. Krystal contributes to the field of respiratory care and advocates for RT’s as respiratory case managers by providing training to RT’s as well as teaching advanced respiratory case management to BSRT students.

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