Stefano Guerra

Stefano Guerra

Director, Epidemiology
Professor, Public Health
Professor, Medicine - (Tenure Track)
Research Scientist, Respiratory Sciences
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 626-7411

Work Summary

Stefano Guerra's work includes an epidemiologic study, which used a household-based approach to assess prevalence and longitudinal changes in respiratory health. Other biomarker projects include a study on molecular biomarkers of asthma and COPD from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey.

Research Interest

Stefano Guerra, MD, PhD, is a professor of Medicine, the Director of the Population Science Unit at the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, and a leading expert in the natural history and biomarkers of obstructive lung diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). As principal investigator, he is engaged in the leadership and coordination of multiple studies that use bio-specimens and phenotypic information from independent epidemiological cohorts to characterize the natural history, profile the risk factors, and identify novel biomarkers of lung diseases.

Publications

Vasquez, M. M., McClure, L. A., Sherrill, D. L., Patel, S. R., Krishnan, J., Guerra, S., & Parthasarathy, S. (2017). Positive Airway Pressure Therapies and Hospitalization in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The American journal of medicine, 130(7), 809-818.

Hospitalization of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease creates a huge healthcare burden. Positive airway pressure therapy is sometimes used in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but the possible impact on hospitalization risk remains controversial. We studied the hospitalization risk of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease before and after initiation of various positive airway pressure therapies in a "real-world" bioinformatics study.

Guerra, S., & et al, . (2016). Genetic and epigenetic regulation of YKL-40 and childhood asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Dijk, N., others, ., Guerra, S., Postma, D., & Koppelman, G. (2016). Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of IL1RL1 mRNA and IL1RL1-a Protein Levels in Asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Demeyer, H., others, ., Guerra, S., others, ., & Garcia-Aymerich, J. (2017). Physical activity is associated with attenuated disease progression in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Thorax.
Vasquez, M. M., Zhou, M., Hu, C., Martinez, F. D., & Guerra, S. (2017). Reply to: Low Lung Function in Young Adult Life is Associated with Early Mortality. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine.