Fernando Martinez, MD

Regents' Professor
Director, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center
Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics

Research Interest:

Asthma and gene-environment interactions.

Selected Publications

2018

Zhai J, Stern DA, Sherrill DL, et al. "Trajectories and Early Determinants of Circulating CC16 from Birth to Age 32 Years." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.. 2018;198(2):267-270. PMCID: PMC6058982  PMID: 29485918

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.

Kothari PH, Qiu W, Croteau-Chonka DC, et al. "Role of local CpG DNA methylation in mediating the 17q21 asthma susceptibility gasdermin B (GSDMB)/ORMDL sphingolipid biosynthesis regulator 3 (ORMDL3) expression quantitative trait locus." J. Allergy Clin. Immunol.. 2018;141(6):2282-2286.e6. PMCID: PMC5994185  PMID: 29374573

2017

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

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

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