Dr. Christine Kim Garcia MD PHD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
5323 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX, 75390About
Christine Kim Garcia, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and a member of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She ...
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inherited interstitial lung disease.
- Nonsense mutations in folliculin presenting as isolated familial spontaneous pneumothorax in adults.
- Familial spontaneous pneumothorax.
- Adult-onset pulmonary fibrosis caused by mutations in telomerase.
- Human diseases of telomerase dysfunction: insights into tissue aging.
- Telomere shortening in familial and sporadic pulmonary fibrosis.
- Genetic defects in surfactant protein A2 are associated with pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer.
- Surfactant protein A2 mutations associated with pulmonary fibrosis lead to protein instability and endoplasmic reticulum stress.
- Telomere lengths, pulmonary fibrosis and telomerase (TERT) mutations.
- Subclinical lung disease, macrocytosis, and premature graying in kindreds with telomerase (TERT) mutations.
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: update on genetic discoveries.
- Genetic interstitial lung disease.
- Lung fibrosis, premature graying, and macrocytosis.
- Mutant surfactant A2 proteins associated with familial pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer induce TGF-β1 secretion.
- Red blood cell size is inversely associated with leukocyte telomere length in a large multi-ethnic population.
Awards
- 2012 American Society for Clinical Investigation
- 2008 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award
- 2006 President's Research Council Young Investigator Award
- 2004 Charles E. Culpeper Medical Scholar
- 2003 Parker B. Francis Fellowship
- 1991 Alpha Omega Alpha
Treatments
- Interstitial Lung Disease
Fellowships
- UT Southwestern Medical Center, Research 2006
- UT Southwestern Medical Center, Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine 2004
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