Deborah Carlson, PhD

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics, Surgery

Contact Information

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

deborah.carlson@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Dr. Carlson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, graduated in 1989 from The State University of New York College at Fredonia with a BS in recombinant gene technology, and a minor in chemistry. She completed work for a PhD in 1996 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Roswell Park Division in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Education

UndergraduateState University of New York (Gene Technology), None
Graduate SchoolState University of New York (Gene Technology), None

Research Interests

Cardiac function following burn injury and sepsis
The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Cardiac Dysfunction

Publications

Featured
Burn Trauma Alters Calcium Transporter Protein Expression in the Heart.

Ballard-Croft C, Carlson DL, Maas DL, Horton JW , J Applied Physiology , 2004; (97(4)):1470-1476

Featured
Endotoxin infusion in mice results in cardiac apotosis via a TNF-a dependent pathway

Carlson DL, White DJ, Horton JW and Giroir BP , American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology , 2003; (Accepted, 2003.)

Featured
Myocyte apoptosis via endotoxin

Carlson DL, LIghtfoot, Jr. E, Bryant DD, Haudek SB, Maass DL and Horton JW , American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology , 2002; (282):H1907-H1914

Cardiac Molecular Signaling after Burn Trauma

Carlson DL, Horton JW , J Burn Care Research , September 2006; (27(5)):669-75

Antioxidant Vitamin Therapy Alters Sepsis-related Apoptotic Myocardial Activity and Inflammatory Responses.

Carlson D, Maas DL, Tan J, Horton JW , J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol , December 2006; (291(6)):H2779-H2789

TNF-alpha Induced Caspase Activation Mediates Endotoxin Related Cardiac Dysfunction.

Carlson DL, Willis MS, White DJ, Horton JW, Giroir BP , Critical Care Medicine , 2005; (33(5)):1021-1028

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a Burn Trauma Induced Cardiac Depressant.

Willis MS, Carlson DL, DiMiao JM, White MD, White DJ, Horton JW, Giroir BP. , AJP Heart and Circ. , 2005; (288(2)):H795-H804

A three-component dicamba O-demethylase from Pseudomonas maltophilia, strain DI-6: purification and characterization.

Chakraborty S., Behrens M., Herman PL, Arendsen AF, Hagan WR, Carlson DL, Wang XZ, Weeks DP , Arch Biochem Biophys , 2005; (437(1)):20-28

Honors/Awards

Member since 2005

International Shock Society Presential Committee for Publications (2007)

Research Citation Finalist

Society for Critical Care Medicine 36th Annual Congress (2007)

Most Outstanding Presentation Award

Shock Society 28th Annual Conference (2005)

Outstanding Young Investigator Award

James Carrico Research Forum, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2001)

President

National Biological Honor Society (1989)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

2005-2006 International Shock Society Presidential Committee for Publications

American Burn Association

American Heart Association

International Shock Society

Society of Critical Care Medicine