Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Education
Graduate School:
2003 PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
1998 MSc, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Post Graduate School:
2007 Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Research Service Award, Department of Pathology, University of Vermont
2005 Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Pathology, University of Vermont
Research Interests
- Influenza Exacerbation of Secondary Staphylococcal Pneumonia (NIH NHLBI 1R01HL107380)
- Suppression of Th17 Immunity by Preceding Influenza Infection
- Chronic Lung Remodeling Induced by Influenza Infection
- Mechanisms of Th17 Mediated Allergic Airway Disease
- Lung Infection
- Pulmonary Immunity
- Th17 cells and IL-17
- Influenza
- Asthma
- Bacterial Pneumonia
View Dr. Alcorn's full list of publications from PubMed.
