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Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa, MD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine

Education

  • MD, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Residency, Internal Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Fellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

Graduate Program Affiliations

Licenses & Certifications

  • Certification, Americal Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease
  • Medical License, Iowa Board of Medicine
  • Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine

Selected Publications

  • Berkebile, A. R., Bartlett, J. A., Abou Alaiwa, M., Varga, S. M., Power, U. F. & McCray, Jr, P. B. (2020). Airway Surface Liquid Has Innate Antiviral Activity That Is Reduced in Cystic Fibrosis. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 62 (1) 104-111. PMCID: PMC6938132.
  • Hamilton, B. A., Li, X., Pezzulo, A. A., Abou Alaiwa, M. H. & Zabner, J. (2019). Polarized AAVR expression determines infectivity by AAV gene therapy vectors. Gene therapy 26 (6) 240-249. PMCID: PMC6588428.
  • Fischer, A. J., Pino-Argumedo, M. I., Hilkin, B. M., Shanrock, C. R., Gansemer, N. D., Chaly, A. L., Zarei, K., Allen, P. D., Ostedgaard, L. S., Hoffman, E. A., Stoltz, D. A., Welsh, M. J. & Abou Alaiwa, M. H. (2019). Mucus strands from submucosal glands initiate mucociliary transport of large particles. JCI insight 4 (1). PMCID: PMC6485365.
  • Xie, Y., Ostedgaard, L., Abou Alaiwa, M. H., Lu, L., Fischer, A. J. & Stoltz, D. A. (2018). Mucociliary Transport in Healthy and Cystic Fibrosis Pig Airways. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 15 (Suppl 3) S171-S176. PMCID: PMC6322029.
  • Abou Alaiwa, M. H., Launspach, J. L., Grogan, B., Carter, S., Zabner, J., Stoltz, D. A., Singh, P. K., McKone, E. F. & Welsh, M. J. (2018). Ivacaftor-induced sweat chloride reductions correlate with increases in airway surface liquid pH in cystic fibrosis. JCI insight 3 (15). PMCID: PMC6129116.
  • Abou Alaiwa, M., Kuan, S. P., Liao, Y. J., Bormann, N. L., Bair, T. B., Price, M., Stoltz, D. A., Welsh, M. J., Reznikov, L. R. & Meyerholz, D. K. (2018). The vagal ganglia transcriptome identifies candidate therapeutics for airway hyperreactivity. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 315 (2) L133-L148. PMID: 29631359.
  • Reznikov, L. R., Meyerholz, D. K., Kuan, S. P., Guevara, M. V., Atanasova, K. R. & Abou Alaiwa, M. H. (2018). Solitary Cholinergic Stimulation Induces Airway Hyperreactivity and Transcription of Distinct Pro-inflammatory Pathways. Lung 196 (2) 219-229. PMCID: PMC5975219.
  • Mao, S., Shah, A. S., Moninger, T. O., Ostedgaard, L. S., Lu, L., Tang, X. X., Thornell, I. M., Reznikov, L. R., Ernst, S. E., Karp, P. H., Tan, P., Keshavjee, S., Abou Alaiwa, M. H. & Welsh, M. J. (2018). Motile cilia of human airway epithelia contain hedgehog signaling components that mediate noncanonical hedgehog signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (6) 1370-1375. PMCID: PMC5819449.
  • Adam, R. J., Abou Alaiwa, M. H., Bouzek, D. C., Cook, D. P., Gansemer, N. D., Taft, P. J., Powers, L. S., Stroik, M. R., Hoegger, M. J., McMenimen, J. D., Hoffman, E. A., Zabner, J., Welsh, M. J., Meyerholz, D. K. & Stoltz, D. A. (2017). Postnatal airway growth in cystic fibrosis piglets. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 123 (3) 526-533. PMCID: PMC5625074.
  • Vargas Buonfiglio, L. G., Mudunkotuwa, I. A., Abou Alaiwa, M. H., Vanegas Calderón, O. G., Borcherding, J. A., Gerke, A. K., Zabner, J., Grassian, V. H. & Comellas, A. P. (2017). Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. Environmental health perspectives 125 (7) 077003. PMID: 28696208.