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John William Christman, MD
Chief, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
jwc@uic.edu |
Campus Address
920-N CSB
840 South Wood Street (MC 719)
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Campus Phone
(312) 996-8039
Clinical and Research Interests
Dr. Christman is interested in general critical care medicine with special interests in management of patients with severe sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In addition, Dr. Christman attends a weekly general pulmonary clinic at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, where he provides special expertise in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and occupational mineral dust lung diseases (asbestosis and silicosis).
Dr. Christman's laboratory program investigates the role of transcription factors in macrophage gene expression in the context of cellular and animal models of lung inflammation. The members of Dr. Christman's laboratory are Gye Young Park, MD, Anser Azim PhD, Xuerong Wang MD, Biji Mathews PhD, and Hongmei Cai. The laboratory is funded by both the National Instututes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs as described below.
Current Research Projects
Publications on MEDLINE LINK
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