Cristina M. Alvira

Clinical Focus

• Intensive Care, Pediatric
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Fellowship Program Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2006 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Fellow to Faculty Transition Grant, American Heart Association (2008-2013)
• Pediatric Clerkship Honor Roll for Teaching, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2007)
• Travel Award, Society for Pediatric Research (2004)
• Travel Award, Western Society for Clinical Investigation (2004)
• Excellence in Clinical Medicine, Louis Weinstein Prize (1999)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Pediatrics

Publications

• Nuclear factor-kappaB activation in neonatal mouse lung protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation. Alvira CM, Abate A, Yang G, Dennery PA, Rabinovitch M. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007; 175 (8): 805-15
• LC3-mediated fibronectin mRNA translation induces fibrosarcoma growth by increasing connective tissue growth factor. Ying L, Lau A, Alvira CM, West R, Cann GM, Zhou B, Kinnear C, Jan E, Sarnow P, Van de Rijn M, Rabinovitch M. J Cell Sci. 2009; 122 (Pt 9): 1441-51
• Tie2-Mediated Loss of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-{gamma} in Mice Causes PDGF-Receptor {beta}-Dependant Pulmonary Arterial Muscularization. Guignabert C, Alvira CM, Alastalo TP, Sawada H, Hansmann G, Zhao M, Wang L, El-Bizri N, Rabinovitch M. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009
• Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation with Air Induces Apoptosis and Causes Failure of Alveolar Septation and Angiogenesis in Lungs of Newborn Mice. Mokres LM, Parai K, Hilgendorff A, Ertsey R, Alvira CM, Rabinovitch M, Bland RD. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2009
• Mechanical ventilation uncouples synthesis and assembly of elastin and increases apoptosis in lungs of newborn mice. Prelude to defective alveolar septation during lung development? Bland RD, Ertsey R, Mokres LM, Xu L, Jacobson BE, Jiang S, Alvira CM, Rabinovitch M, Shinwell ES, Dixit A. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2008; 294 (1): L3-14