Key Documents

Cristina M. Alvira

Instructor, Pediatrics - Intensive Care

Contact Information

Clinical Offices

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 725 Welch Rd 2 East Palo Alto, CA 94304
Telephone Work (650) 497-8850 Fax (650) 725-8343
Academic Offices

Personal Information
Email calvira@stanford.edu
Not for medical emergencies or patient use

Clinical Focus

Intensive Care, Pediatric
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

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)
Member, Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society (1998)

Professional Education

Board Certification: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics (2006)
Board Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2002)
Stanford University Medical Center (2005) CA
Stanford University Medical Center (2002) CA
Stanford University Medical Center (2000) CA
Tufts University (1999) MA
BS, Tufts University Biology (1995)
MD, Tufts University Medicine (1999)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

Pediatrics

Publications

Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation. Alvira CM, Abate A, Yang G, Dennery PA, Rabinovitch M. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007; 175 (8): 805-15
LC3-mediated fibronectin mRNA translation induces fibrosarcoma growth by increasing connective tissue growth factor. Ying L, Lau A, Alvira CM, West R, Cann GM, Zhou B, Kinnear C, Jan E, Sarnow P, Van de Rijn M, Rabinovitch M. J Cell Sci. 2009; 122 (Pt 9): 1441-51
Tie2-Mediated Loss of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-{gamma} in Mice Causes PDGF-Receptor {beta}-Dependant Pulmonary Arterial Muscularization. Guignabert C, Alvira CM, Alastalo TP, Sawada H, Hansmann G, Zhao M, Wang L, El-Bizri N, Rabinovitch M. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009;
Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation with Air Induces Apoptosis and Causes Failure of Alveolar Septation and Angiogenesis in Lungs of Newborn Mice. Mokres LM, Parai K, Hilgendorff A, Ertsey R, Alvira CM, Rabinovitch M, Bland RD. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009;
Mechanical ventilation uncouples synthesis and assembly of elastin and increases apoptosis in lungs of newborn mice. Prelude to defective alveolar septation during lung development? Bland RD, Ertsey R, Mokres LM, Xu L, Jacobson BE, Jiang S, Alvira CM, Rabinovitch M, Shinwell ES, Dixit A. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008; 294 (1): L3-14
Reactivation of gammaHV68 induces neointimal lesions in pulmonary arteries of S100A4/Mts1-overexpressing mice in association with degradation of elastin. Spiekerkoetter E, Alvira CM, Kim YM, Bruneau A, Pricola KL, Wang L, Ambartsumian N, Rabinovitch M. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008; 294 (2): L276-89
An antiproliferative BMP-2/PPARgamma/apoE axis in human and murine SMCs and its role in pulmonary hypertension. Hansmann G, de Jesus Perez VA, Alastalo TP, Alvira CM, Guignabert C, Bekker JM, Schellong S, Urashima T, Wang L, Morrell NW, Rabinovitch M. J Clin Invest. 2008; 118 (5): 1846-57