Fernando Martinez, MD

Regents' Professor
Director, A2DRC
Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics
Chalfont/Moore Chair on Respiratory Medicine
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Genetics - GIDP
Professor, Pediatrics

Research Interest:

Asthma and gene-environment interactions.

Selected Publications

2018

Fitzpatrick AM, Bacharier LB, Guilbert TW, et al. "Phenotypes of Recurrent Wheezing in Preschool Children: Identification by Latent Class Analysis and Utility in Prediction of Future Exacerbation." J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018.

Chang EH, Stern DA, Willis AL, Guerra S, Wright AL, Martinez FD. "Early life risk factors for chronic sinusitis: A longitudinal birth cohort study." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2018;141(4):1291-1297.e2. PMCID: PMC5937937  PMID: 29355680

2017

Chen Y, Vasquez MM, Zhu L, et al. "Effects of Retinoids on Augmentation of Club Cell Secretory Protein." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2017;196(7):928-931. PMCID: PMC5649971  PMID: 28231434

Chang EH, Willis AL, McCrary HC, et al. "Association between the CDHR3 rs6967330 risk allele and chronic rhinosinusitis." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2017;139(6):1990-1992.e2. PMCID: PMC5457723  PMID: 27923563

Woodruff PG, van den Berge M, Boucher RC, et al. "American Thoracic Society/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Asthma-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Workshop Report." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2017;196(3):375-381. PMCID: PMC5549872  PMID: 28636425

Vasquez MM, Zhou M, Hu C, Martinez FD, Guerra S. "Low Lung Function in Young Adult Life Is Associated with Early Mortality." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2017;195(10):1399-1401. PMCID: PMC5443902  PMID: 28504596

Carr TF, Beamer PI, Rothers J, et al. "Prevalence of Asthma in School Children on the Arizona-Sonora Border." J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017;5(1):114-120.e2. PMCID: PMC5222738  PMID: 27544711

Oren E, Gerald L, Stern DA, Martinez FD, Wright AL. "Self-Reported Stressful Life Events During Adolescence and Subsequent Asthma: A Longitudinal Study." J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017;5(2):427-434.e2. PMCID: PMC5591640  PMID: 27815066

Martinez FD. "Bending the Twig Does the Tree Incline: Lung Function after Lower Respiratory Tract Illness in Infancy." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2017;195(2):154-155. PMCID: PMC5394793  PMID: 28084817

Gardeux V, Berghout J, Achour I, et al. "A genome-by-environment interaction classifier for precision medicine: personal transcriptome response to rhinovirus identifies children prone to asthma exacerbations." J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017;24(6):1116-1126. PMCID: PMC6080688  PMID: 29016970

Pages

Clinical Trials

Study Title (link to more info on this site)sort descending Link to Study Trial Status Principal Investigator
(ORBEX) Randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to assess the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of Oral Bacterial Extract for the prevention of wheezing lower respiratory tract illness https://breatheeasyearly.info/?com=1 Closed Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
BEAMS view Current Trial - Enrolling Paloma Beamer, PhD, Dean Billheimer, PhD, Tara F. Carr, MD, Darren A. Cusanovich, PhD, Fernando Martinez, MD, Donata Vercelli, MD
Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) https://lungresearch.arizona.edu/study/bard Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Best African American Response to Asthma Drugs (BARD) https://lungresearch.arizona.edu/study/bard Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Infant Immune Study (IIS) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Marilyn Halonen, PhD, Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
Pathways to Immunologically Mediated Asthma (PIMA) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD
Preventing Asthma in High Risk Kids (PARK) https://studies.medicine.arizona.edu/trials/preventing-asthma-high-risk-kids-par… Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Step-Up Yellow Zone Inhaled Corticosteroids to Prevent Exacerbations (STICS) https://lungresearch.arizona.edu/study/stics Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) https://lungresearch.arizona.edu/study/siena Closed Fernando Martinez, MD
Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD
TReating Children to Prevent EXacerbations of Asthma (TREXA) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00394329?term=CARE%20Network&cond=Asthma&… Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Fernando Martinez, MD, Wayne J. Morgan, MD
Tucson Children's Respiratory Study (TCRS) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD
Tucson Epidemiological Study of Airway Obstructive Disease (TESAOD) view Current Trial - Enrollment Complete Stefano Guerra , MD, PhD, MPH, Fernando Martinez, MD