Mahendra Damarla

Assistant Professor
Medicine - Pulmonary and Respiratory
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America

Doctor Pulmonology
Biography

Dr. Mahendra Damarla is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include acute lung injury, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. Dr. Damarla earned his M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He completed his residency at St. Elizabeth Medical Center and performed a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins. His research interests include vascular biology.

Research Intrest

Vascular biology

List of Publications
Fallica J, Boyer L, Kim B, Serebreni L, Varela L, Hamdan O, Wang L, Simms T, Damarla M, Kolb TM, Bucala R, Mitzner W, Hassoun PM, Damico R. "Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is a novel determinant of cigarette smoke-induced lung damage." Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2014 Jul;51(1):94-103.
Hikmat F, Pearse DB, Damarla M. "A presentation of massive hemoptysis in a patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome." Can Respir J. 2014 November/December;21(6):337-340.
Kim BS, Serebreni L, Fallica J, Hamdan O, Wang L, Johnston L, Kolb T, Damarla M, Damico R, Hassoun PM. "Cyclin-dependent kinase five mediates activation of lung xanthine oxidoreductase in response to hypoxia." PLoS One. 2015 Apr 1;10(4):e0124189.