Alison Nair, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Alison Baker Nair, MD received her undergraduate degree from Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. She received her MD from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine in 2009 after which she completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

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She went on to complete her fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at the University of California, San Francisco including a year as a dedicated Research Fellow funded by the NIH NICHD T32 Research Training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2016-2017). She is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics conducting research focused on endothelial and hemostatic dysfunction in pediatric critical illness.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Critical Care University of California, San Francisco 06/2017
• Residency Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco 06/2012
• MD Medicine Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago 06/2009

Publications (8)

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Blood PlateletsTrauma CentersRespiratory InsufficiencyShock, HemorrhagicMorbidityTubulinWounds and InjuriesPlasmaBlood TransfusionMultiple Organ FailureHemorrhageLung InjuryAcute Lung InjuryInjury Severity ScoreBlood Coagulation Factors

• Histone deacetylase-6 modulates the effects of 4°C platelets on vascular endothelial permeability.
  Blood advances 2023 Miyazawa B, Trivedi A, Vivona L, Lin M, Potter D, Nair A, Barry M, Cap AP, Pati S
• Life-Threatening Bleeding in Children: A Prospective Observational Study.
  Critical care medicine 2021 Leonard JC, Josephson CD, Luther JF, Wisniewski SR, Allen C, Chiusolo F, Davis AL, Finkelstein RA, Fitzgerald JC, Gaines BA, Goobie SM, Hanson SJ, Hewes HA, Johnson LH, McCollum MO, Muszynski JA, Nair…
• Hemostatic Testing in Critically Ill Infants and Children.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2021 Nair AB, Parker RI
• The effects of human prothrombin complex concentrate on hemorrhagic shock-induced lung injury in rats: Implications for testing human blood products in rodents.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2020 Potter DR, Trivedi A, Lin M, Miyazawa BY, Vivona LR, McCully B, Nair A, Schreiber MA, Pati S
• Characterization of organ dysfunction and mortality in pediatric patients with trauma with acute traumatic coagulopathy.
  Trauma surgery & acute care open 2020 Nair A, Flori H, Cohen MJ
• Clinical Characteristics, Major Morbidity, and Mortality in Trauma-Related Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2020 Nair AB, Cohen MJ, Flori HR
• Pathophysiology and Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Children.
  Pediatric clinics of North America 2017 Heidemann SM, Nair A, Bulut Y, Sapru A
• Venovenous Extracorporeal Life Support in Single-Ventricle Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2016 Nair AB, Oishi P