John Battaile, MD

Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

john.battaile@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Medical SchoolUniversity of Tennessee Memphis, Medicine (1999)
UndergraduateWashington University, Biology (1994)

Research Interests

Airway inflammation in COPD and asthma
Alternative macrophage activation
Immune mechanisms of acute and chronic lung injury
Role of infection in the development of chronic inflammation lung disease

Publications

Featured
Persistent activation of an innate immune response translates respiratory viral infection into chronic lung disease

Kim EY, Battaile JT, Patel AC, Agapov E, Grayson MH, Benoit LA, Byers DE, Alevy Y, Tucker J, Swanson S, Tidwell R, Tyner JW, Morton JD, Castro M, Polineni D, Patterson GA, Schwendener RA, Allard JD, Peltz G, Holtzman MJ , Nat Med , 2008;

Featured
Macrophage chitinase 1 stratifies chronic obstructive lung disease

Agapov E, Battaile JT, Tidwell R, Hachem R, Patterson GA, Pierce RA, Atkinson JA, Holtzman MH , Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. , June 2009;

Elastin expression in very severe human COPD

Deslee G, Woods JC, Moore CM, Liu L, Conradi SH, Milne M, Gierada DS, Pierce J, Patterson A, Lewit RA, Battaile JT, Holtzman MJ, Hogg JC, Pierce RA , Eur Respir J. , April 2009;

Oxidative damage to nucleic acids in severe emphysema

Deslee G, Woods JC, Moore C, Conradi SH, Gierada DS, Atkinson JJ, Battaile JT, Liu L, Patterson A, Adair-Kirk TL, Holtzman MJ, Pierce RA , Chest , April 2009; :135(4): 965-74

Immune pathways for translating viral infection into chronic airways disease

Holtzman MJ, Byers DE, Benoit LA, Battaile JT, You Y, Agapov E, Park C, Grayson MH, Kim EY, Patel AC , Adv Immunol , 2009; :102:245-76

Macrophage chitinase 1 stratifies chronic obstructive lung disease

Agapov E, Battaile JT, Tidwell R, Hachem R, Patterson GA, Pierce RA, Atkinson JA, Holtzman MH , American Journal Respir Cell Mol Biol. , June 2009;

Persistent activation of an innate immune response translates respiratory viral infection into chronic lung disease

Kim EY, Battaile JT, Patel AC, Agapov E, Grayson MH, Benoit LA, Byers DE, Alevy Y, Tucker J, Swanson S, Tidwell R, Tyner JW, Morton JD, Castro M, Polineni D, Patterson GA, Schwendener RA, Allard JD, Peltz G, Holtzman MJ , Nat Med. , June 2008; :14(6): 633-40

Honors/Awards

Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award

(2007)

Knowlton Award for Clinical Excellence

(2004)

Clinicopathologic Conference

Elected by fellow residents as discussant for year-end conference (2002)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American College of Chest Physicians

American Medical Association

American Thoracic Society