ChristopherAliaMDFCCP

Asthma & COPD, Critical Care Medicine, Interstitial Lung Diseases

St Luke's Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates

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Office
685 Delaware Ave
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone+1 484-526-3890

Fax+1 866-829-9836

Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2003 - 2006
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2000 - 2003
New York Medical CollegeClass of 2000
Georgetown UniversityM.S., Physiology and Biophysics, 1994 - 1996
Providence CollegeB.S., Biology, Magna Cum Laude, 1990 - 1994

Achievement Award Hospital & Health System Association of Pennsylvania, 2013
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Allscripts Enterprise EHR, Allscripts, 2012-2013
Physician Honoree Award 2007

PubMed

10 citations
Lung Epithelial NF-κB and Stat1 Signaling in Response to CD8+ T Cell Antigen Recognition
Chilakamarti V. Ramana, Jyothi Chintapalli, Lumei Xu, Christopher Alia, Jing Zhou
Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 2006-05-11
37 citations
Inflammatory impact of IFN-γ in CD8+ T cell-mediated lung injury is mediated by both Stat1-dependent and -independent pathways
Chilakamarti V. Ramana, Matthew DeBerge, Aseem Kumar, Christopher Alia, Joan E. Durbin
American Journal of Physiology. Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 2015-04-01
19 citations
C-type natriuretic peptide expression and pulmonary vasodilation in hypoxia-adapted rats
James R. Klinger, Farjaad M. Siddiq, Richard A. Swift, Cynthia L. Jackson, Linda Pietras
The American Journal of Physiology. 1998-10-01

Journal Articles

Inflammatory impact of IFN-gamma in CD8+ T cell-mediated lung injury is mediated by both Stat1-dependent and -independent pathways
Ramana CV, DeBerge MP, Kumar A, Alia CS, Durbin JE, Enelow RI, Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol, 1/1/2015
C-type natriuretic peptide expression and pulmonary vasodilation in hypoxia-adapted rats
Klinger, James R., Farjaad M. Siddiq, Richard A. Swift, Cynthia Jackson, Linda Pietras, Rod R. Warburton, Christopher Alia and Nicholas S. Hill, American Journal of Physiology, 1/1/1998
Effects of licorice derivatives on vascular smooth muscle function
Brem, Andrew S., Robert B. Bina, Nicholas Hill, Chris Alia and David J. Morris, Life Sciences, 1/1/1997

Books/Book Chapters

Field Guide to Internal Medicine
Chapter: Adrenal Insufficiency
Page 285 - 287Alia, Christopher S.Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins2005
Field Guide to Internal Medicine
Chapter: Multiple Sclerosis
Page 225 - 227Alia, Christopher S.Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins2005

Abstracts/Posters

CD8+ T-cell mediated lung injury, in the absence of replicating virus is enhanced in Stat1-deficient mice.
Alia, Christopher S., et al, American Thoracic Society Conference, 1/1/2006