Eugene Bleecker, MD

Professor and Section Head, Internal Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)

Co-Director, Center for Human Genomics

Email: ebleeck@wfubmc.edu

Education:

New York University, BA, 1964

SUNY, Downstate Medical Center, MD, 1968

SUNY Kings County Hospital - Downstate Medical Center, Internship, 1968-1969; Residency, 1969-1970

Gerontology Research Center - National Institutes of Health, Fellowship, 1970-1972

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Residency, 1972-1973

University of California, San Francisco, Fellowship, 1973-1974

The Cardiovascular Research Institute - University of California, San Francisco, Fellowship, 1974-1975

Research Interests:

Genetics of allergy, asthma and complex diseases. Pathogenesis of asthma and chronic air flow obstruction, airways hyperresponsiveness and bronchial inflammation. Pharmacologic interventions in obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Recent Publications:

Penn RB, Ortega VE, Bleecker ER. A Roadmap to Functional Genomics. Physiol Genomics. 2007 Feb 27; [Epub ahead of print]

Moore WC, Bleecker ER, Curran-Everett D, Erzurum SC, Ameredes BT, Bacharier L, Calhoun WJ, Castro M, Chung KF, Clark MP, Dweik RA, Fitzpatrick AM, Gaston B, Hew M, Hussain I, Jarjour NN, Israel E, Levy BD, Murphy JR, Peters SP, Teague WG, Meyers DA, Busse WW, Wenzel SE; National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program. Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Feb;119(2):405-13.

Dijkstra A, Howard TD, Vonk JM, Ampleford EJ, Lange LA, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Postma DS. Estrogen receptor 1 polymorphisms are associated with airway hyperresponsiveness and lung function decline, particularly in female subjects with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006 Mar;117(3):604-11. Epub 2006 Feb 15.

Larj MJ, Bleecker ER. Pharmacogenetics of asthma: where are we now? Clin Chest Med. 2006 Mar;27(1):109-17, vii. Review.

Weiss ST, Litonjua AA, Lange C, Lazarus R, Liggett SB, Bleecker ER, Tantisira KG. Overview of the pharmacogenetics of asthma treatment. Pharmacogenomics J. 2006 Mar 28; [Epub ahead of print]

Publications:
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