MichaelJosephLafeminaMD

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Senior Physician, The Permanente Medical Group

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505 Parnassus Ave
# M-987
San Francisco, CA 94143
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Dr. Michael Lafemina is a pulmonologist in American Canyon, CA and is affiliated with Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and has been in practice 14 years. He specializes in critical care medicine and pleural disease.

University of California (San Francisco)Fellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2008 - 2011
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2005 - 2008
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2005

PubMed

106 citations
Claudin-18 deficiency is associated with airway epithelial barrier dysfunction and asthma
Kelly A. Sweerus, Marrah E. Lachowicz-Scroggins, Erin D. Gordon, Michael J. LaFemina, Xiaozhu Huang
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2017-01-01
50 citations
Unexpected Role for Adaptive αβTh17 Cells in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
John T. Li, Andrew C. Melton, George Su, David E. Hamm, Michael LaFemina
Journal of Immunology. 2015-07-01
76 citations
Claudin-18 deficiency results in alveolar barrier dysfunction and impaired alveologenesis in mice.
Michael J. LaFemina, Katherine M. Sutherland, Trevor Bentley, Linda W. Gonzales, Lennell Allen
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 2014-10-02