Michael Peterson, MD

Associate Dean, UCSF Fresno
+1 559 499-6500

Dr. Peterson oversees the continued development of UCSF Fresno’s clinical and academic programs as Associate Dean at UCSF Fresno. He has been chief of medicine at UCSF Fresno for the past 15 years and he serves as vice chair in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. His clinical and research focus is in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. During his tenure in Fresno, he oversaw the growth of the Medical Residency Program from 45 trainees to its current 68 trainees, the development of seven subspecialties with 37 fellows, and led fundraising efforts to build the UCSF Fresno Clinical Research Center. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a leading member of the California Thoracic Society, the largest state organization of lung specialists in the United States. He was also a founding member, counselor, and president of the Association of Chiefs and Chairs of Medicine. He is a busy physician and teacher and has won numerous awards in both areas, including being named the Recipient of the Kaiser Award for Teaching and one of America’s Best Doctors every year since 2010.

Publications: 

Differentiating Lung Nodules Due to Coccidioides from Those Due to Lung Cancer Based on Radiographic Appearance.

Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)

Peterson MW, Jain R, Hildebrandt K, Carson WK, Fayed MA

Association Between Shared Decision-Making During Family Meetings and Surrogates' Trust in Their ICU Physician.

Chest

Lincoln TE, Buddadhumaruk P, Arnold RM, Scheunemann LP, Ernecoff NC, Chang CH, Carson SS, Hough CL, Curtis JR, Anderson W, Steingrub J, Peterson MW, Lo B, Matthay MA, White DB

The Rise of Valley Fever: Prevalence and Cost Burden of Coccidioidomycosis Infection in California.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Wilson L, Ting J, Lin H, Shah R, MacLean M, Peterson MW, Stockamp N, Libke R, Brown P

Physicians Rarely Elicit Critically Ill Patients' Previously Expressed Treatment Preferences in Intensive Care Units.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Chiarchiaro J, Ernecoff NC, Scheunemann LP, Hough CL, Carson SS, Peterson MW, Anderson WG, Steingrub JS, Arnold RM, White DB

Psychiatric Symptoms in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors: A 1-Year National Multicenter Study.

Critical care medicine

Huang M, Parker AM, Bienvenu OJ, Dinglas VD, Colantuoni E, Hopkins RO, Needham DM, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress

Key stakeholders' perceptions of the acceptability and usefulness of a tablet-based tool to improve communication and shared decision making in ICUs.

Journal of critical care

Ernecoff NC, Witteman HO, Chon K, Chen YI, Buddadhumaruk P, Chiarchiaro J, Shotsberger KJ, Shields AM, Myers BA, Hough CL, Carson SS, Lo B, Matthay MA, Anderson WG, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, Arnold RM, White DB

A multicenter study of key stakeholders' perspectives on communicating with surrogates about prognosis in intensive care units.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Anderson WG, Cimino JW, Ernecoff NC, Ungar A, Shotsberger KJ, Pollice LA, Buddadhumaruk P, Carson SS, Curtis JR, Hough CL, Lo B, Matthay MA, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, White DB

Fluid management with a simplified conservative protocol for the acute respiratory distress syndrome*.

Critical care medicine

Grissom CK, Hirshberg EL, Dickerson JB, Brown SM, Lanspa MJ, Liu KD, Schoenfeld D, Tidswell M, Hite RD, Rock P, Miller RR, Morris AH, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Clinical Trials Network

Development of a real-time PCR Assay for identification of Coccidioides immitis by use of the BD Max system.

Journal of clinical microbiology

Mitchell M, Dizon D, Libke R, Peterson M, Slater D, Dhillon A

Call for a California coccidioidomycosis consortium to face the top ten challenges posed by a recalcitrant regional disease.

Mycopathologia

Thompson GR, Stevens DA, Clemons KV, Fierer J, Johnson RH, Sykes J, Rutherford G, Peterson M, Taylor JW, Chaturvedi V

Impact of an integrated disease management program in reducing exacerbations in patients with severe asthma and COPD.

Respiratory medicine

Jain VV, Allison R, Beck SJ, Jain R, Mills PK, McCurley JW, Van Gundy KP, Peterson MW

Valley fever: danger lurking in a dust cloud.

Microbes and infection

Johnson L, Gaab EM, Sanchez J, Bui PQ, Nobile CJ, Hoyer KK, Peterson MW, Ojcius DM

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in subjects with stable COPD: a randomized trial.

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Bhatt SP, Peterson MW, Wilson JS, Durairaj L

One year outcomes in patients with acute lung injury randomised to initial trophic or full enteral feeding: prospective follow-up of EDEN randomised trial.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Needham DM, Dinglas VD, Bienvenu OJ, Colantuoni E, Wozniak AW, Rice TW, Hopkins RO, NIH NHLBI ARDS Network

Pathogenetic and predictive value of biomarkers in patients with ALI and lower severity of illness: results from two clinical trials.

American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

Agrawal A, Zhuo H, Brady S, Levitt J, Steingrub J, Siegel MD, Soto G, Peterson MW, Chesnutt MS, Matthay MA, Liu KD

Diagnostic yield and renal complications after computed tomography pulmonary angiograms performed in a community-based academic hospital.

Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives

Reagle Z, Tringali S, Gill N, Peterson MW

Initial trophic vs full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury: the EDEN randomized trial.

JAMA

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Rice TW, Wheeler AP, Thompson BT, Steingrub J, Hite RD, Moss M, Morris A, Dong N, Rock P

Recent vitamin D and sepsis.

Minerva anestesiologica

Zacharia Reagle G, Peterson MW, Mills P

Outcomes after Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiograms Performed in a Community-Based Academic Hospital

Journal of Community Hospitals Internal Medicine Perspectives

Reagle GZ, Tringali S, Gill N, Peterson MW

Acute kidney injury in patients with acute lung injury: impact of fluid accumulation on classification of acute kidney injury and associated outcomes.

Critical care medicine

Liu KD, Thompson BT, Ancukiewicz M, Steingrub JS, Douglas IS, Matthay MA, Wright P, Peterson MW, Rock P, Hyzy RC, Anzueto A, Truwit JD, National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress S

Enteral omega-3 fatty acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidant supplementation in acute lung injury.

JAMA

Rice TW, Wheeler AP, Thompson BT, deBoisblanc BP, Steingrub J, Rock P, NIH NHLBI Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network of Investigators, NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network

Bronchoscopic lung-volume reduction with Exhale airway stents for emphysema (EASE trial): randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial.

Lancet (London, England)

Shah PL, Slebos DJ, Cardoso PF, Cetti E, Voelker K, Levine B, Russell ME, Goldin J, Brown M, Cooper JD, Sybrecht GW, EASE trial study group

Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of an aerosolized β₂-agonist for treatment of acute lung injury.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Matthay MA, Brower RG, Carson S, Douglas IS, Eisner M, Hite D, Holets S, Kallet RH, Liu KD, MacIntyre N, Moss M, Schoenfeld D, Steingrub J, Thompson BT

Bedside sublingual video imaging of microcirculation in assessing bacterial infection in cirrhosis.

Digestive diseases and sciences

Sheikh MY, Javed U, Singh J, Choudhury J, Deen O, Dhah K, Peterson MW

American Journal of Medical Quality

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volkova NB, Kodani A, Hilario D, Munyaradzi SM, and Peterson MW

Spirometry utilization after hospitalization for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations.

American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality

Volkova NB, Kodani A, Hilario D, Munyaradzi SM, Peterson MW

Randomized clinical trial of activated protein C for the treatment of acute lung injury.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Liu KD, Levitt J, Zhuo H, Kallet RH, Brady S, Steingrub J, Tidswell M, Siegel MD, Soto G, Peterson MW, Chesnutt MS, Phillips C, Weinacker A, Thompson BT, Eisner MD, Matthay MA

Impact of a Multidisciplinary Apoproach to Guideline Implementation in Diabetic Ketoacidosis

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volkova N, Fletcher C, Tevendale R, Munyaradzi SM, Elliot S and Peterson

Impact of a multidisciplinary approach to guideline implementation in diabetic ketoacidosis.

American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality

Volkova NB, Fletcher CC, Tevendale RW, Munyaradzi SM, Elliot S, Peterson MW

Protein-protein docking: overview and performance analysis.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Wiehe K, Peterson MW, Pierce B, Mintseris J, Weng Z

TreeViewJ: An application for viewing and analyzing phylogenetic trees.

Source code for biology and medicine

Peterson MW, Colosimo ME

Improving the quality of the order-writing process for inpatient orders in a teaching hospital

Quality Management in Healthcare

Boehringer PA, Rylander, Dizon DT and Peterson MW

Quality Management in Healthcare

Quality Management in Healthcare

Boehringer PA, Rylander J, Dizon D, and Peterson MW

Prognostic value of low blood glucose at the presentation of E. coli bacteremia.

The American journal of medicine

Alamgir S, Volkova NB, Peterson MW

Pulmonary-artery versus central venous catheter to guide treatment of acute lung injury.

The New England journal of medicine

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Wheeler AP, Bernard GR, Thompson BT, Schoenfeld D, Wiedemann HP, deBoisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite RD, Harabin AL

Comparison of Two Fluid Management Strategies in Acute Lung Injury: The Fluid and Catheter Treatment Trial (FACTT) The NIH NHLBI ARDS Network

New England Journal of Medicine

Wiedemann HP, Wheeler AP, Bernard GR, Thompson BT, deBooisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite RD, Hayden D, Harabin AD, Peterson MW and the ARDS Network

The fluid and catheter treatment trial (FACTT): pulmonary artery catheter versus central venous catheter guided treatment of acute lung injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Wheeler AP, Wiedermann HP, Bernard GR, Thompson T, deBoisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite D, Schoenfeld D, Harabin A, Peterson M and the ARDS Network

Continuing medical education on the Internet: State of the art

Journal of Continuing Education in Health

Peterson MW

A randomized controlled trial of an information prescription for pediatric patient education on the Internet.

Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine

D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Kinzer SL, Peterson MW

An analysis of patient care questions asked by pediatricians at an academic medical center.

Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association

D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW, Kingsley P, Johnson-West J

An evaluation of information-seeking behaviors of general pediatricians.

Pediatrics

D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW

Computer-based testing: initial report of extensive use in a medical school curriculum.

Teaching and learning in medicine

Peterson MW, Gordon J, Elliott S, Kreiter C

Medical students' use of information resources: is the digital age dawning?

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Peterson MW, Rowat J, Kreiter C, Mandel J

Accessing the tools for improved asthma management.

The American journal of medicine

Peterson MW

The effects of testing in shifts on a clinical in-course computerized exam.

Medical education

Kreiter C, Peterson MW, Ferguson K, Elliott S

The Results of Testing on Separate Days in a Medical School Course

Medical education

Kreiter C, Ferguson K, Elliott S and Peterson M

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity negatively regulates stability of cyclooxygenase 2 mRNA.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Monick MM, Robeff PK, Butler NS, Flaherty DM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

FDG-PET imaging and the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer in a region of high histoplasmosis prevalence.

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Croft DR, Trapp J, Kernstine K, Kirchner P, Mullan B, Galvin J, Peterson MW, Gross T, McLennan G, Kern JA

Oxidant-mediated increases in redox factor-1 nuclear protein and activator protein-1 DNA binding in asbestos-treated macrophages.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Flaherty DM, Monick MM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

Email recruitment to use web decision support tools for pneumonia.

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Flanagan JR, Peterson M, Dayton C, Strommer Pace L, Plank A, Walker K, Carlson WS

Is that your final answer? Relationship of changed answers to overall performance on a computer-based medical school course examination.

Teaching and learning in medicine

Ferguson KJ, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW, Rowat JA, Elliott ST

Ceramide regulates lipopolysaccharide-induced phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Akt activity in human alveolar macrophages.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Monick MM, Mallampalli RK, Carter AB, Flaherty DM, McCoy D, Robeff PK, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

GM-CSF increases AP-1 DNA binding and Ref-1 amounts in human alveolar macrophages.

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Flaherty DM, Monick MM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

Asthma patient education: current utilization in pulmonary training programs.

The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma

Peterson MW, Strommer-Pace L, Dayton C

Lipopolysaccharide activates Akt in human alveolar macrophages resulting in nuclear accumulation and transcriptional activity of beta-catenin.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Monick MM, Carter AB, Robeff PK, Flaherty DM, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

Protein kinase C zeta plays a central role in activation of the p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase by endotoxin in alveolar macrophages.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Monick MM, Carter AB, Flaherty DM, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW

Evaluation of an Internet-based decision-support system for applying the ATS/CDC guidelines for tuberculosis preventive therapy.

Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making

Dayton CS, Ferguson JS, Hornick DB, Peterson MW

Evaluation of internet-based clinical decision support systems.

Journal of medical Internet research

Thomas KW, Dayton CS, Peterson MW

Asthma guidelines: an assessment of physician understanding and practice.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Doerschug KC, Peterson MW, Dayton CS, Kline JN

Academic Medicine

Academic Medicine

Peterson MW

Asbestos-induced lung epithelial permeability: potential role of nonoxidant pathways.

The American journal of physiology

Peterson MW, Kirschbaum J

Occupational lung disease.

Disease-a-month : DM

Schwartz DA, Peterson MW

Human neutrophil elastase abolishes interleukin-8 chemotactic activity.

Journal of leukocyte biology

Leavell KJ, Peterson MW, Gross TJ

Occupational lung disease.

Advances in internal medicine

Schwartz DA, Peterson MW

The role of fibrin degradation products in neutrophil recruitment to the lung.

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Leavell KJ, Peterson MW, Gross TJ

Effect of neutrophil mediators on epithelial permeability.

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Peterson MW, Walter ME, Nygaard SD

Predicting postoperative pulmonary function in patients undergoing lung resection.

Chest

Zeiher BG, Gross TJ, Kern JA, Lanza LA, Peterson MW

Thermal stress induces epithelial permeability.

The American journal of physiology

Moseley PL, Gapen C, Wallen ES, Walter ME, Peterson MW

Defensins reduce the barrier integrity of a cultured epithelial monolayer without cytotoxicity.

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Nygaard SD, Ganz T, Peterson MW

A cytosolic inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase and cathepsin G.

Journal of leukocyte biology

Thomas RM, Nauseef WM, Iyer SS, Peterson MW, Stone PJ, Clark RA

A23187 increases permeability of MDCK monolayers independent of phospholipase activation.

The American journal of physiology

Peterson MW, Gruenhaupt D

Neutrophil cathepsin G increases transendothelial albumin flux.

The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine

Peterson MW

Effects of albumin concentration on endothelial albumin transport in vitro.

The American journal of physiology

Shasby DM, Peterson MW

Cationic Neutrophil Proteins Increase Albumin Transfer Across a Cultured Endothelial

J. Appl. Physiol.

Peterson, M, Stone P, and Shasby, DM

Cationic neutrophil proteins increase transendothelial albumin movement.

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)

Peterson MW, Stone P, Shasby DM