Judd W. Landsberg , M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Director of Medical Intensive Care

VA San Diego Healthcare System

Co-Assistant Program Director for PCCM Fellowship

CLINICAL INTERESTS:

1. Medical Education
2. Delivery of critical care

INVESTIGATIVE INTERESTS:

1. Biomarkers for the diagnosis of penumonia
2. Research bronchoscopy
3. Pulmonary vascular disease

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1.    Landsberg, J.W. and J.X. Yuan, Molecular mechanisms involved in severe pulmonary hypertension: New insights into pathogenesis and potential therapeutic approaches. Council on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care. Fall Newsletter 23(2), 2002.

2.     Yu Y., Sweeney M., Zhang S., Platoshyn O., Landsberg J.W., Rothman A., Yuan J.X., PDGF stimulates pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation by upregulating TRPC6 expression. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 284(2):C316-30, 2003.

3.     Landsberg J.W., Yuan J.X. Calcium and TRP channels in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. News Physiol Sci 19:44-50, 2004.

4.     Kunichika N, Landsberg J.W., Yu Y., Kunichika H., Thistlethwaite P.A., Rubin L.J., Yuan J.X. Bosentan inhibits transient receptor potential channel expression in pulmonary vascular myocytes. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170(10):1101-7, 2004.

5.     Yu Y., Fantozzi I., Remillard C.V., Landsberg J.W., Kunichika N., Platoshyn O., Tigno D.D., Thistlethwaite P.A., Rubin L.J., Yuan J.X. Enhanced expression of transient receptor potential channels in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101(38):13861-6, 2004.

6.     Landsberg, J.W., Aspergillus Lung Disease, Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine, Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, May 2005.

7.     Ying Yu, Nivruthi Vangala, Judd W. Landsberg, Ann Nicholson, Lewis J. Rubin, and Jason X.-J. Yuan. A Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (-254 C to G) in the TRPC6 Gene is Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (in submission June 6, 2007).

Academic Awards

2000      Betsy Winters Housestaff Teaching Award,

              Yale University School of Medicine

2007      Department of Medicine’s Chief Resident’s Teaching Award,

              U.C. San Diego School of Medicine

2008       Department of Medicine's Graduating House Staff Teaching Award

2008       Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care's Athena Award,

              Distiguished Attending 2007-2008

PubMed:

Board Certified:

  Internal Medicine

  Pulmonary Medicine

  Critical Care Medicine

VA San Diego

To contact Dr. Judd Landsberg:  Jlandsberg@ucsd.edu