Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Douglas J. Conrad, M.D.

Professor of Medicine

Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic

Director, Pulmonary Function Laboratory, VA Medical Center

 

CLINICAL INTERESTS:

  1. Diseases of the airways
  2. Asthma
  3. Cystic Fibrosis
  4. Diffuse bronchiecstasis

 

INVESTIGATIVE INTERESTS:

Response of airway epithelium to various stimuli particularly involved with inflammation. Focus specifically on the regulations of protein expression of CFTR and the lipid per oxidating enzyme 15-lipoxygenase is under investigation using transgenic mouse models of asthma and pseudomanias aeruginosa pneumonia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Bradding P, Redington AE, Djukanovic , Conrad DJ, and Holgate ST.  15-lipoxygenase immunoreactivity in normal and asthmatic airways. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995;151:1201-1204.
  2. Kritzik MR, Ziober AF, Dicharry S, Conrad DJ, Sigal E. Characterization and sequence of an additional 15-lipoxygenase transcript and of the human gene. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1997;1352(3):267-81.
  3. Resnikoff JR, Conrad DJ. Recent advances in the understanding and treatment of cystic fibrosis.  Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 1998;4(3):130-4.
  4. Conrad DJ. The arachidonate 12/15-Lipoxygenases. A review of tissue expression and biological function. Clin Rev Allergy Immun 1999;17(1-2):17-89.
  5. Huang JT, Welsh JS, Ricote M, Kelly C, Binder C, Willson TM, Kelly C, Witzum JL, Funk C, Conrad DJ, Glass C. Interleukin-4-dependent production of PPAR-g ligands in macrophages by 12/15-lipoxygenase. Nature 1999; 400(6742):378-82.
  6. Conrad DJ.  The arachidonate 12/15 lipoxygenases. A review of tissue expression and biologic function. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 1999 Spring-Summer;17(1-2):71-89. Review.
  7. Conrad DJ,  Lu M.  Regulation of human 12/15-lipoxygenase by Stat6-dependent transcription.  Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2000 Feb;22(2):226-34.
  8. Wang AC, Dai X, Luu B, Conrad DJ.  Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma regulates airway epithelial cell activation. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2001 Jun;24(6):688-93.
  9. Conrad DJ, Stenbit AE, Zettner EM, Wick, I, Eckhardt C, LHardiman G. Frequency of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA variants in an adult cystic fibrosis population. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics 2008; 18:1095-1102.

PubMed:

Board Certified:

  •  Internal Medicine
  •  Pulmonary Medicine

San Diego Magazine's "Top Doc" in Pulmonary Disease.

UCSD Adult Cystic Fibrosis Clinic

To schedule an appointment at the CF Clinic, contact Kay Wallims at 858-657-7073.

Dr. Conrad can be reached directly at: dconrad@ucsd.edu