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 - 2010)

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

• Inhibiting Nuclear Factor Kappa-B in the Developing Lung Disrupts Angiogenesis and Alveolarization. Iosef C, Alastalo TP, Hou Y, Chen C, Adams ES, Lyu SC, Cornfield DN, Alvira CM. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2012
• Inhibition of transforming growth factor β worsens elastin degradation in a murine model of Kawasaki disease. Alvira CM, Guignabert C, Kim YM, Chen C, Wang L, Duong TT, Yeung RS, Li DY, Rabinovitch M. Am J Pathol. 2011; 178 (3): 1210-20
• Rho kinase modulates postnatal adaptation of the pulmonary circulation through separate effects on pulmonary artery endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Alvira CM, Sukovich DJ, Lyu SC, Cornfield DN. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2010; 299 (6): L872-8
• 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
• Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α regulates KCNMB1 expression in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Ahn YT, Kim YM, Adams E, Lyu SC, Alvira CM, Cornfield DN. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2012; 302 (3): L352-9