PAUL J. CHRISTENSEN, M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program

Education and Training: M.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Residency: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Clinical and Research Training: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Major Clinical Interests: Pulmonary rehabilitation, exercise physiology Major Research Interests: Pulmonary immunology and epithelial cell biology

· Christensen PJ, Armstrong LR, Fak JJ, Chen GH, McDonald RA, Toews GB, and Paine R III. Regulation of rat pulmonary dendritic cell immunostimulatory activity by alveolar epithelial cell-derived GM-CSF. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1995; 13:426-433.

· Barton WW, Wilcoxen SE, Christensen PJ, and Paine R III. Association of ICAM-1 with the cytoskeleton in rat alveolar epithelial cells in primary culture.  Am J Physiol 1996; 271 (Lung Cell Mol Physiol 15): L707-L718.

· Ojo TC, Martinez FJ, Paine R III, Christensen PJ, Curtis JL, Weg JG, Kazerooni E, Whyte R. Lung volume reduction surgery alters management of pulmonary nodules in patients with severe COPD. Chest 1997; 112:1494-1500.

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