Alison Nair, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Alison Baker Nair, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her translational research program focuses on platelet-endothelial interactions in the setting of pediatric critical illness and how these interactions are altered by transfusion and other cellular therapies. She received her undergraduate degree from Grinnell College and her MD from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. With support through the NIH’s Pediatric Critical Care and Trauma Scientist Development Program and the Thrasher Research Foundation, she is advancing pediatric-specific diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to hemostatic dysfunction to improve care of critically ill children.

Publications: 

Inter- and Intra-donor variability in bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells: implications for clinical applications.

Cytotherapy

Trivedi A, Lin M, Miyazawa B, Nair A, Vivona L, Fang X, Bieback K, Schäfer R, Spohn G, McKenna D, Zhuo H, Matthay MA, Pati S

Histone deacetylase-6 modulates the effects of 4°C platelets on vascular endothelial permeability.

Blood advances

Miyazawa B, Trivedi A, Vivona L, Lin M, Potter D, Nair A, Barry M, Cap AP, Pati S

Life-Threatening Bleeding in Children: A Prospective Observational Study.

Critical care medicine

Leonard JC, Josephson CD, Luther JF, Wisniewski SR, Allen C, Chiusolo F, Davis AL, Finkelstein RA, Fitzgerald JC, Gaines BA, Goobie SM, Hanson SJ, Hewes HA, Johnson LH, McCollum MO, Muszynski JA, Nair AB, Rosenberg RB, Rouse TM, Sikavitsas A, Singleton MN, Steiner ME, Upperman JS, Vogel AM, Wills H, Winkler MK, Spinella PC

Hemostatic Testing in Critically Ill Infants and Children.

Frontiers in pediatrics

Nair AB, Parker RI

The effects of human prothrombin complex concentrate on hemorrhagic shock-induced lung injury in rats: Implications for testing human blood products in rodents.

The journal of trauma and acute care surgery

Potter DR, Trivedi A, Lin M, Miyazawa BY, Vivona LR, McCully B, Nair A, Schreiber MA, Pati S

Clinical Characteristics, Major Morbidity, and Mortality in Trauma-Related Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

Nair AB, Cohen MJ, Flori HR

Pathophysiology and Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Children.

Pediatric clinics of North America

Heidemann SM, Nair A, Bulut Y, Sapru A