Mark Matsuo Wurfel
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104About
Dr. Mark Wurfel practices Pulmonology in Seattle, WA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Wurfel manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 2004
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease- 2003
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Differential regulation of membrane CD14 expression and endotoxin-tolerance in alveolar macrophages.
- TLR-4 pathway mediates the inflammatory response but not bacterial elimination in E. coli pneumonia.
- Genetics of pulmonary fibrosis.
- Genetic pleiotropy between asthma and obesity in a community-based sample of twins.
- Microarray-based analysis of ventilator-induced lung injury.
- A TRIFfic perspective on acute lung injury.
- Genetic insights into sepsis: what have we learned and how will it help?
- Genetic variation in the FAS gene and associations with acute lung injury.
- Automated Classification of Radiology Reports for Acute Lung Injury: Comparison of Keyword and Machine Learning Based Natural Language Processing Approaches.
- Identification and characterization of a loss-of-function human MPYS variant.
- A nonsynonymous polymorphism of IRAK4 associated with increased prevalence of gram-positive infection and decreased response to toll-like receptor ligands.
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia: bacteremia and death after traumatic injury.
- Pneumonia identification using statistical feature selection.
- Optimal unified approach for rare-variant association testing with application to small-sample case-control whole-exome sequencing studies.
- Variation in the TLR10/TLR1/TLR6 locus is the major genetic determinant of interindividual difference in TLR1/2-mediated responses.
Fellowships
- UW - Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Mark Matsuo Wurfel's Practice location
Practice At Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave
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