Cristina M. Alvira
Academic Appointments
- Acting Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Intensive Care
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Administrative Appointments
- Associate Fellowship Program Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2006 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Fellow to Faculty Transition Grant, American Heart Association (2008-2013)
- Pediatric Clerkship Honor Roll for Teaching, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2007)
- Travel Award, Society for Pediatric Research (2004)
- Travel Award, Western Society for Clinical Investigation (2004)
- Excellence in Clinical Medicine, Louis Weinstein Prize (1999)
Professional Education
| BS: | Tufts University, Biology (1995) |
| MD: | Tufts University, Medicine (1999) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Scientific Focus
Publications
- Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007; (8): 805-15
- Prolonged mechanical ventilation with air induces apoptosis and causes failure of alveolar septation and angiogenesis in lungs of newborn mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2010; (1): L23-35
- LC3-mediated fibronectin mRNA translation induces fibrosarcoma growth by increasing connective tissue growth factor. J Cell Sci. 2009; (Pt 9): 1441-51
- Tie2-mediated loss of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma in mice causes PDGF receptor-beta-dependent pulmonary arterial muscularization. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009; (6): L1082-90
- Mechanical ventilation uncouples synthesis and assembly of elastin and increases apoptosis in lungs of newborn mice. Prelude to defective alveolar septation during lung development? Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008; (1): L3-14
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