Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Faculty
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Veena B. Antony, M.D. Division Chief Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine Box 100225, Room M454 University of Florida Health Science Center Gainesville, Florida 32610-0225 Phone (352) 846-0754 Fax (352) 392-0788 Email id: antonvb@medicine.ufl.edu |
Educational Background
- Fellowship University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
- Residency Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
- Internship Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Clinical Interests
- - Cystic fibrosis
- - Pleural disease
- - Genetic lung diseases
- - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- - International Medicine
Research Interests
- - Epithelial surfaces of the lung
- - Cell - cell Junctional Proteins
- - Thoracoscopy as an investigational tool
- - AIDS and AIDS associated infections
- - Tuberculosis
Professional Societies
- American Federation for Clinical Research
- American Lung Association of Central Indiana
- American Thoracic Society
Grants Awarded
National Institute of Health Principal Investigator “HIV, Alcohol and TB Pleurisy”
National Institute of Health Principal Investigator “AIDS Associated Pleural Infection”
National Institute of Health, Principal Investigator “Monocyte Recruitment in Pleuro-pulmonary TB in AIDS”
Veterans Administration Merit Review, Principal Investigator “Mechanism of Development of Parapneumonic Effusions”
Florida Department of Health, Principal Investigator “Tobacco Smoke Induced Cell Injury in Lung Compartments”
National Institute of Health: Co-Investigator “Airway Response: Mechanical Determinants and Maturation”
Publications (2003 onwards)- Antony VB, Nasreen N, Mohammed KA, Sriram PS, Frank W, Schoenfeld N, Loddenkemper R. Talc pleurodesis: basic fibroblast growth factor mediates pleural fibrosis.
Chest. 2004 Nov;126(5):1522-8. - Kilani MM, Mohammed KA, Nasreen N, Hardwick JA, Kaplan MH, Tepper RS, Antony VB. Respiratory syncytial virus causes increased bronchial epithelial permeability.
Chest. 2004 Jul;126(1):186-91. - Ramirez-Icaza G, Mohammed KA, Nasreen N, Van Horn RD, Hardwick JA, Sanders KL, Tian J, Ramirez-Icaza C, Johnson MT, Antony VB. Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-13 downregulate paxillin expression in bronchial airway epithelial cells. J Clin Immunol. 2004 Jul;24(4):426-34.
- Hage CA, abdul-Mohammed K, Antony VB. Pathogenesis of pleural infection.
Respirology. 2004 Mar;9(1):12-5. Review. - Nasreen N, Mohammed KA, Sanders K, Hardwick J, Van Horn RD, Sriram PS, Ramirez-Icaza C, Hage C, Antony VB. Pleural mesothelial cell (PMC) defense mechanisms against malignancy.
Oncol Res. 2003;14(3):155-61. - Mohammed KA, Nasreen N, Hardwick J, Van Horn RD, Sanders KL, Antony VB. Mycobacteria induces pleural mesothelial permeability by down-regulating beta-catenin expression. Lung 2003
- Sharma RK, Mohammed KA, Nasreen N, Hardwick J, Van Horn RD, Ramirez-Icaza C, Antony VB. Defensive role of pleural mesothelial cell sialomucins in tumor metastasis.
Chest. 2003 Aug;124(2):682-7. - Antony VB. Immunological mechanisms in pleural disease.
Eur Respir J. 2003 Mar;21(3):539-44. Review. - Nasreen N, Mohammed KA, Sanders KL, Hardwick J, Van Horn RD, Sharma RK, Kilani M, Antony VB. Pleural mesothelial cells modulate polymorphonuclear leukocyte apoptosis in empyema.
J Clin Immunol. 2003 Jan;23(1):1-10.
For a complete list of the publications,
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Honors and Awards
2003 America’s top Doctor’s, Castle Connolly Medical Limited
2001-2003 Dr. Calvin H. English Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
1998-2003 NIH AIDS Related Research Study Section AARR 4: Chair