Biographical Sketch

Research

I am interested in clinical outcomes in the care of adult patients with cystic fibrosis. This includes participation in clinical trials evaluating novel therapies of CF-related lung disease.

Publications

1. Shifren A, Woods JC, Rosenbluth DB, Officer S, Cooper JD, Pierce RA. Upregulation of elastin expression in constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans. International Journal of COPD. In press.

2. Chen DL, Ferkol TW, Mintun MA, Pittman JE, Rosenbluth DB, Schuster DP. Quantifying pulmonary inflammation in cystic fibrosis with positron emission tomography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2006; 173(12):1363-9.

3. Chen DL, Rosenbluth DB, Mintun MA, Schuster DP. FDG-PET imaging of pulmonary inflammation in healthy volunteers after airway instillation of endotoxin. Journal of Applied Physiology. 2006; 100(5):1602-9.

4. Atkinson RM, LiPuma JJ, Rosenbluth DB, Dunne WM. Chronic colonization with Pandoraea apista in cystic fibrosis patients determined by repetitive-element-sequence PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2006; 44(3):833-6.

5. Rosenbluth DB, Wilson K, Ferkol T, Schuster DP. Lung function decline in cystic fibrosis patients and timing for lung transplantation referral. Chest. 2004; 126:412-419.

6. Pinckard JK, Rosenbluth DB, Patel K, Dehner LP, Pfeifer JD. Pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma associated with Aspergillus infection. International Journal of Surgical Pathology 2003; 11:39-42.

7. Rosenbluth D, Goodenberger D. Cystic fibrosis in an elderly woman. Chest 1997; 112:1124-1126.

8. Hanson V, Horowitz M, Rosenbluth D, Spiera H, Puszkin S: Systemic lupus erythematosus patients with central nervous system involvement show autoantibodies to a 50 kd neuronal membrane protein. Journal of Experimental Medicine 1992; 176:565-573.

Book Chapters/Reviews

1. Rosenbluth DB, Popovich J. The Lungs in Pregnancy. In: Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases & Disorders, 4th edition. McGraw Hill. In Press.

2. T Ferkol, H Mitchison, C O'Callaghan, M Leigh, J Carson, H Lie, D Rosenbluth, SL Brody. Current issues in the basic mechanisms, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. In: Respiratory Disease in Infants and Children, U. Frey, J. Gerritsen (Eds). ERS Monograph 37, 2006, pp. 291-313

3. Rosenbluth DB. Management of the infected cystic fibrosis patient. In: Cohen J, Powderly WG, eds. Infectious Diseases. 2 ed. London: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2003.

4. Rosenbluth DB. Chapters 37, 38, 42-46, In: Fishman AP, ed. Fishman’s Manual of Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders. McGraw-Hill, 2002.

5. Rosenbluth DB, Brody SL. Cystic fibrosis. In: Jameson L, ed. Principles of Molecular Medicine. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1998; 329-338.