Michael W. Peterson, MD

Medical School:

University of Minnesota

Residency:

University of Wisconsin

Fellowship:

University of Iowa

Board Certified:

Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
Critical Care Medicine

Awards and Recognition:

Phi Beta Kappa
Magna Cum Laude Graduate
American Lung Association Fellowship Grant Recipient
Election to Central Society for Clinical Research
Secretary, ATS Council of Chapter Representative
Dr. William and Sondra Myers Family Professorship
Election to Who's Who in Medicine
University of Iowa Presidential Award for Technology Innovation
University of Iowa College of Medicine Collegiate Teaching Award
Selection as one of America's Best Doctors
Election to the Haile T. Debas UCSF Academy of Medical Educators
ATS Presidential Commendation
UCSF Fresno Teacher of the Year Award

1. Schwartz, D.A. and Peterson, M.W. Occupational Lung Disease. Disease of the Month 44:41-84, 1998.
2. Peterson, M.W. and Kirschbaum, J.: Asbestos-induced Lung Epithelial Permeability: Potential Role of Non-Oxidants. Am. J. Physiol. (Lung Cell Mol. Physiol.), 275:L262-L268, 1998.
3. Doerschug, K., Peterson, M.W., Dayton, C.S. and Kline, J.N. Asthma Guidelines: An assessment of physician understanding and practice. Am. J. Resp. Crit. Care Med. 159:1735-1741, 1999.
4. Peterson, M.W., Dayton, C., Galvin, J.R. and D'Alesandro, M.P. Realizing the Promise: Delivering Continuing Medical Education over the Internet, Chest. 115:1429-1436, 1999.
5. Peterson, M.W. Benefits and Dangers of Online CME. Acad. Med. 74:750, 1999.
6. Thomas, K., Dayton, C. and Peterson, M.W. Using Clinical Decision Support Systems Over the Internet. J. Med. Internet Res. 1(2):el, 1999. (http://www.symposion.com/jmir/1999/2/el/index.htm)
7. Peterson, M.W. Continuing Medical Education over the Internet: State of the Art. J. Cont. Ed. Health. Prof. 19:242-249, 2000.
8. Dayton, C.S., Ferguson, J.S., Hornick, D.B., and Peterson, M.W.: Evaluation of an Internet-based Support System for Applying the ATS/CDC Guidelines for Tuberculosis Preventative Therapy. Medical Decision Making. 20:1-6, 2000.
9. Peterson, M.W., Strommer-Pace, L. and Dayton, C. Asthma Patient Education: Current Utilization in Pulmonary Training Programs. J. Asthma. 38:261-267, 2001.
10. Monick, M.M., Carter, A.B., Flaherty, D.W., Peterson, M.W. and Hunninghake, G.W.: PKC z plays a central role in activation of the p42/44 MAP kinase by endotoxin in alveolar macrophages. J. Immunol. 165:4632-4639, 2000.
11. Flaherty, D.M., Monick, M.M., Carter, A.B., Peterson, M. W. and Hunninghake, G.W. GM-CSF Increases AP-1 DNA-Binding and REF-1 Amounts in Human Alveolar Macrophages Am. J. Respir. Cell. Mol. Biol. (In Press), 2001.
12. Monick, M.D., Carter, A.B., Robeff, P.K., Flaherty, D.M., Peterson, M.W. and Hunninghake, G.W. Lipopolysaccharide activates Akt in human alveolar macrophages resulting in nuclear accumulation and transcriptional activity of b-catenin. J. Immunol. 166:4713-4720, 2001.
13. Ferguson, K.J., Kreiter, C.D., Peterson, M.W., Rowat, J.,A., Elliott, S.T. Is that you final answer? Relationship of changed answers to overall performance on a computer-based medical school course examination. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 14:20-23, 2002.
14. Croft, D.R. and Peterson, M.W. An Evaluation of the Quality and Contents of Asthma Education on the World Wide Web. Chest. 121:1301-1307, 2002
15. Monick, M.M., Mallampalli, R.K., Carter, A.B., Flaherty, D., McCoy, D., Robeff, P., Peterson, M.W., and Hunninghake, G.W.: Ceramide regulates LPS-induced phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and AKT activity in human alveolar macrophages. J. Immunol. 167:5977-5985, 2002.

16. Croft, D.R., Trapp J., Kernstine, K., Kirchner, P., Mullan, B., Galvin, J., Peterson, M.W., Gross, T., McLennan, G. and Kern, J.A. FDG-PET Imaging and the Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in a Region of High Histoplasmosis Prevalency. Lung Cancer 36:297-301,2002

17. Flaherty, D.M., Monick, M.M., Carter, A.B., Peterson, M.W., and Hunninghake, G.W.: Oxidant mediated increases in Redox Factor-1 nuclear protein and Activator Protein-1 DNA binding in asbestos-treated macrophages. J. Immunol. 168:5675-5681, 2002.

18. Kreiter, C., Ferguson, K., Elliott, S. and Peterson, M.W.  The Results of Testing on Separate Days in a Medical School Course.  Med. Ed. 37:202-204, 2003.

19. Peterson, M.W. and Fretz, P.  Patient utilization of information resources in a lung cancer clinic.  Chest, 123(2):452-7, 2003.

20. Peterson, M.W.  Accessing the tools for improved asthma management.  Am. J. Med. 114:415-6, 2003.

21. D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter C, Peterson MW. An evaluation of information seeking behaviors of general pediatricians. Pediatrics. 113(1): 64-69, 2004

22. Peterson, M.W., Ferguson, K., Kreiter, C., and Elliot, S.  Developing and delivering computer-based examinations in the undergraduate medical environment.  Teach. Learn Med. 16(1):51-9, 2004.

23. Peterson, M.W., Rowat, J., Kreiter, C.  Learning resources utilization among medical students: Is the digital age dawning?  Acad. Med. 79(1): 89-95, 2004.

24. D’Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Kinzer SL, Peterson, MW. A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Information Prescription for Pediatric Patient Education Information on the Internet. Arch Peds. (In Press) 2004

25. Yee, B.B.G., Goebel, P.J., and Peterson, M.W.  Revising the clinical evaluation exercise to address general competency requirements: Results of a pilot study.  Med. Ed.  (Submitted), 2003.

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