Fernando Holguin

Medicine, Emory/CDC, United States of America

Fernando Holguin is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Medical Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Joint and secondary appointments include Assistant Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. He is also Director of the Asthma Translational Research Program and Director of the specialized severe asthma clinic at Crawford Long Hospital.

Professor Holguin’s clinical-epidemiologic research focuses on the effects of air pollution on cardiovascular disease. Specifically, on finding interventions to minimize the effects associated with air pollution exposure and to apply non-invasive methods to assess the cardiovascular associations with air pollution. His clinical research is based on defining the mechanisms by which obesity leads to an increase risk for asthma; his research specifically focuses on the role of airway adipokines and airway oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of the asthma-obesity phenotype. Epidemiologic research includes understanding disparities in pulmonary health outcomes at a national level.

He has won the Award of Excellence for establishing the Asthma Translational Research Program within the Emory Respiratory Health Center, 2007; the National EPA Children’s Environmental Excellence Award, 2006 as well as a number of teaching awards. He is also an Elect Member of the Southern Society of Clinical Investigation.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Respiratory Disorders > Asthma & Allergic Rhinitis (since 22 February 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Airway inflammation in obese and nonobese patients with difficult-to-treat asthma.
  Recommended by Fernando Holguin
  
• 6.0
  Association between Asthma and Serum Adiponectin Concentration in Women.
  Recommended by Fernando Holguin
  
• 3.0
  Hospitalizations with primary versus secondary discharge diagnoses of asthma: implications for pediatric asthma surveillance.
  Recommended by Fernando Holguin
  
• 3.2
  Prevalence of circumcision and herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in men in the United States: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 1999-2004.
  Recommended by Helen Weiss, Fernando Holguin
  
• 3.0
  Clinical, functional, and epidemiological differences between atopic and nonatopic asthmatic children from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country.
  Recommended by Fernando Holguin
  
• 3.0
  Increased fibronectin expression in lung in the setting of chronic alcohol abuse.
  Recommended by Fernando Holguin