Epernicus: Masataka Kawana, M.D.

Masataka Kawana, M.D.

Positions:
House Officer

Medicine

Stanford University Hospital (Palo Alto, CA)

Medical Student

Brown Alpert Medical School (Providence, RI)
Degrees:

M.D., Brown Alpert Medical School (Providence, RI)
Clinical Training:

House Officer (in progress), Internal Medicine, Stanford University Hospital
Past Advisors:

Christine E Seidman (as Research Associate)

Thomas Quertermous (as Research Associate)

H. Lee Sweeney (as Research Associate)

Ryoichi Matsuda (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Cardiology
Honors:
2007-2008 Sarnoff Fellow

Communities:

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Spontaneous perforation of the terminal ileum in an AIDS patient on highly active antiretroviral therapy with disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection.
Kawana M, Starr RS, Tashima KT, Treaba DO, Flanigan TP

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2008 Apr 21
PTC124 targets genetic disorders caused by nonsense mutations.
Welch EM, Barton ER, Zhuo J, Tomizawa Y, Friesen WJ, Trifillis P, Paushkin S, Patel M, Trotta CR, Hwang S, Wilde RG, Karp G, Takasugi J, Chen G, Jones S, Ren H, Moon YC, Corson D, Turpoff AA, Campbell JA, Conn MM, Khan A, Almstead NG, Hedrick J, Mollin A, Risher N, Weetall M, Yeh S, Branstrom AA, Colacino JM, Babiak J, Ju WD, Hirawat S, Northcutt VJ, Miller LL, Spatrick P, He F, Kawana M, Feng H, Jacobson A, Peltz SW, Sweeney HL

Nature. 2007 May 3;447(7140):87-91
Systemic administration of L-arginine benefits mdx skeletal muscle function.
Barton ER, Morris L, Kawana M, Bish LT, Toursel T

Muscle & nerve. 2005 Dec;32(6):751-60
gamma-Sarcoglycan deficiency increases cell contractility, apoptosis and MAPK pathway activation but does not affect adhesion.
Griffin MA, Feng H, Tewari M, Acosta P, Kawana M, Sweeney HL, Discher DE

Journal of cell science. 2005 Apr 1;118(Pt 7):1405-16

Spontaneous perforation of the terminal ileum in an AIDS patient on highly active antiretroviral therapy with disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection. (poster)
Masataka Kawana

ACP, National Meeting; 05/2008

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