Helen Tressa D'Couto, MD

Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health

As a Board Certified/Board eligible critical care physician, all conditions requiring intensive care in the medical, surgical, or neurosciences ICU are treated.

Helen D’Couto, MD, is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. She sees patients in clinic for pulmonary conditions with a sub-specialty focus on interstitial lung disease and sarcoidosis. She also attends to patients admitted in the intensive care unit.

Dr. D’Couto is also a successful researcher with numerous peer reviewed publications and presentations at national and international conferences. Her research work is focused on leveraging her clinical expertise in sarcoidosis to conduct clinical research on sarcoidosis and health disparities in pulmonology and sarcoidosis. She also collaborates with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on research to counter the propagation of bias and health disparities in the emerging era of artificial intelligence in healthcare. She also serves as site principal investigator for multi-center national clinical trials in pulmonary medicine.

Dr. D’Couto is active in advocating for patients. She serves as the head of the patient centered care committee for critical care at MedStar Health. She has also published several op eds advocating for patient-centered reforms in health policy. She is a recognized leader in pulmonary medicine and serves as the Vice President of the DC Chapter of the American Thoracic Society.  

In addition, Dr. D’Couto is a respected educator and committed to training the next generation of physicians. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown School of Medicine where she teaches courses in pulmonary medicine. She serves as a core faculty member of the MedStar Georgetown Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.