Michael Peterson, MD
Professor
Dean's Office
School of Medicine

Professor of Medicine, UCSF

Dr. Peterson served for 17 years as Chief of Medicine at UCSF Fresno and Vice-Chair of Medicine at UCSF and most recently for 9 years as Associate Dean at UCSF Fresno.

He has recently stepped down and is now focusing his professional activity in research related to coccidioidomycosis and lung nodule evaluation. In addition, he is mentoring junior faculty within the Department of Medicine.

His clinical is in Pulmonary Medicine.

Dr. Peterson was recruited from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 2002. During his tenure in Fresno, he oversaw growth of the Medical Residency Program from 45 trainees to its current 68 trainees, the development of seven subspecialties with 37 fellows, and led fundraising efforts to build the UCSF Fresno Clinical Research Center.

Dr. Peterson received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Minnesota, completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin, and completed his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Iowa.

He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a leading member of the California Thoracic Society, the largest state organization of lung specialists in the United States. He was also a founding member, councilor, and president for the Association of Chiefs and Chairs of Medicine. He is a busy physician and teacher, and has won numerous awards in both areas, including being named the Recipient of the Kaiser Award for Teaching and one of America’s Best Doctors every year since 2010.

• Transesophageal approach to lung, adrenal biopsy and fiducial placement using endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS): An interventional pulmonology experience. Initial experience of the UCSF-FRETOC (fresno tracheobronchial & oesophageal center) study group.
  Respiratory medicine 2018 Pais FM, Shah RA, Vempilly JJ, Gullapalli S, Upadhyay D, Peterson M, Liberman M, Hegde P
• Physicians Rarely Elicit Critically Ill Patients' Previously Expressed Treatment Preferences in Intensive Care Units.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017 Chiarchiaro J, Ernecoff NC, Scheunemann LP, Hough CL, Carson SS, Peterson MW, Anderson WG, Steingrub JS, Arnold RM, White DB
• Psychiatric Symptoms in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors: A 1-Year National Multicenter Study.
  Critical care medicine 2016 Huang M, Parker AM, Bienvenu OJ, Dinglas VD, Colantuoni E, Hopkins RO, Needham DM, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress
• Complications and Yield of Computed Tomography-Guided Transthoracic Core Needle Biopsy of Lung Nodules at a High-Volume Academic Center in an Endemic Coccidioidomycosis Area.
  Lung 2016 Sachdeva M, Ronaghi R, Mills PK, Peterson MW
• Key stakeholders' perceptions of the acceptability and usefulness of a tablet-based tool to improve communication and shared decision making in ICUs.
  Journal of critical care 2016 Ernecoff NC, Witteman HO, Chon K, Chen YI, Buddadhumaruk P, Chiarchiaro J, Shotsberger KJ, Shields AM, Myers BA, Hough CL, Carson SS, Lo B, Matthay MA, Anderson WG, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, Arnold …
• Misdiagnosis Among Frequent Exacerbators of Clinically Diagnosed Asthma and COPD in Absence of Confirmation of Airflow Obstruction.
  Lung 2015 Jain VV, Allison DR, Andrews S, Mejia J, Mills PK, Peterson MW
• A multicenter study of key stakeholders' perspectives on communicating with surrogates about prognosis in intensive care units.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2015 Anderson WG, Cimino JW, Ernecoff NC, Ungar A, Shotsberger KJ, Pollice LA, Buddadhumaruk P, Carson SS, Curtis JR, Hough CL, Lo B, Matthay MA, Peterson MW, Steingrub JS, White DB
• Fluid management with a simplified conservative protocol for the acute respiratory distress syndrome*.
  Critical care medicine 2015 Grissom CK, Hirshberg EL, Dickerson JB, Brown SM, Lanspa MJ, Liu KD, Schoenfeld D, Tidswell M, Hite RD, Rock P, Miller RR, Morris AH, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress…
• Development of a real-time PCR Assay for identification of Coccidioides immitis by use of the BD Max system.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2015 Mitchell M, Dizon D, Libke R, Peterson M, Slater D, Dhillon A
• Call for a California coccidioidomycosis consortium to face the top ten challenges posed by a recalcitrant regional disease.
  Mycopathologia 2014 Thompson GR, Stevens DA, Clemons KV, Fierer J, Johnson RH, Sykes J, Rutherford G, Peterson M, Taylor JW, Chaturvedi V
• Impact of an integrated disease management program in reducing exacerbations in patients with severe asthma and COPD.
  Respiratory medicine 2014 Jain VV, Allison R, Beck SJ, Jain R, Mills PK, McCurley JW, Van Gundy KP, Peterson MW
• Valley fever: danger lurking in a dust cloud.
  Microbes and infection 2014 Johnson L, Gaab EM, Sanchez J, Bui PQ, Nobile CJ, Hoyer KK, Peterson MW, Ojcius DM
• The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ARDS Clinical Trials Network
  New England Journal of Medicine 2014
• Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in subjects with stable COPD: a randomized trial.
  International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2013 Bhatt SP, Peterson MW, Wilson JS, Durairaj L
• One year outcomes in patients with acute lung injury randomised to initial trophic or full enteral feeding: prospective follow-up of EDEN randomised trial.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2013 Needham DM, Dinglas VD, Bienvenu OJ, Colantuoni E, Wozniak AW, Rice TW, Hopkins RO, NIH NHLBI ARDS Network
• Pathogenetic and predictive value of biomarkers in patients with ALI and lower severity of illness: results from two clinical trials.
  American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2012 Agrawal A, Zhuo H, Brady S, Levitt J, Steingrub J, Siegel MD, Soto G, Peterson MW, Chesnutt MS, Matthay MA, Liu KD
• Diagnostic yield and renal complications after computed tomography pulmonary angiograms performed in a community-based academic hospital.
  Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives 2012 Reagle Z, Tringali S, Gill N, Peterson MW
• Initial trophic vs full enteral feeding in patients with acute lung injury: the EDEN randomized trial.
  JAMA 2012 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Rice TW, Wheeler AP, Thompson BT, Steingrub J, Hite RD, Moss M, Morris A, Dong N, Rock P
• Recent vitamin D and sepsis.
  Minerva anestesiologica 2012 Zacharia Reagle G, Peterson MW, Mills P
• Outcomes after Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiograms Performed in a Community-Based Academic Hospital
  Journal of Community Hospitals Internal Medicine Perspectives 2012 Reagle GZ, Tringali S, Gill N, Peterson MW
• Acute kidney injury in patients with acute lung injury: impact of fluid accumulation on classification of acute kidney injury and associated outcomes.
  Critical care medicine 2011 Liu KD, Thompson BT, Ancukiewicz M, Steingrub JS, Douglas IS, Matthay MA, Wright P, Peterson MW, Rock P, Hyzy RC, Anzueto A, Truwit JD, National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood …
• Enteral omega-3 fatty acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidant supplementation in acute lung injury.
  JAMA 2011 Rice TW, Wheeler AP, Thompson BT, deBoisblanc BP, Steingrub J, Rock P, NIH NHLBI Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network of Investigators, NHLBI ARDS Clinical Trials Network
• Bronchoscopic lung-volume reduction with Exhale airway stents for emphysema (EASE trial): randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial.
  Lancet (London, England) 2011 Shah PL, Slebos DJ, Cardoso PF, Cetti E, Voelker K, Levine B, Russell ME, Goldin J, Brown M, Cooper JD, Sybrecht GW, EASE trial study group
• Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of an aerosolized β₂-agonist for treatment of acute lung injury.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2011 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Matthay MA, Brower RG, Carson S, Douglas IS, Eisner M, Hite D, Holets S, Kallet RH, Liu KD, …
• Bedside sublingual video imaging of microcirculation in assessing bacterial infection in cirrhosis.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2009 Sheikh MY, Javed U, Singh J, Choudhury J, Deen O, Dhah K, Peterson MW
• American Journal of Medical Quality
  American Journal of Medical Quality 2009 Volkova NB, Kodani A, Hilario D, Munyaradzi SM, and Peterson MW
• Spirometry utilization after hospitalization for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2009 Volkova NB, Kodani A, Hilario D, Munyaradzi SM, Peterson MW
• Randomized clinical trial of activated protein C for the treatment of acute lung injury.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2008 Liu KD, Levitt J, Zhuo H, Kallet RH, Brady S, Steingrub J, Tidswell M, Siegel MD, Soto G, Peterson MW, Chesnutt MS, Phillips C, Weinacker A, Thompson BT, Eisner MD, Matthay MA
• Impact of a Multidisciplinary Apoproach to Guideline Implementation in Diabetic Ketoacidosis
  American Journal of Medical Quality 2008 Volkova N, Fletcher C, Tevendale R, Munyaradzi SM, Elliot S and Peterson
• Impact of a multidisciplinary approach to guideline implementation in diabetic ketoacidosis.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2008 Volkova NB, Fletcher CC, Tevendale RW, Munyaradzi SM, Elliot S, Peterson MW
• Protein-protein docking: overview and performance analysis.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2008 Wiehe K, Peterson MW, Pierce B, Mintseris J, Weng Z
• TreeViewJ: An application for viewing and analyzing phylogenetic trees.
  Source code for biology and medicine 2007 Peterson MW, Colosimo ME
• Improving the quality of the order-writing process for inpatient orders in a teaching hospital
  Quality Management in Healthcare 2007 Boehringer PA, Rylander, Dizon DT and Peterson MW
• Quality Management in Healthcare
  Quality Management in Healthcare 2007 Boehringer PA, Rylander J, Dizon D, and Peterson MW
• Prognostic value of low blood glucose at the presentation of E. coli bacteremia.
  The American journal of medicine 2006 Alamgir S, Volkova NB, Peterson MW
• The impact of a short course of study on the performance of radiographers when highlighting fractures on trauma radiographs: "The Red Dot System".
  The British journal of radiology 2006 Mackay SJ
• Pulmonary-artery versus central venous catheter to guide treatment of acute lung injury.
  The New England journal of medicine 2006 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Clinical Trials, Wheeler AP, Bernard GR, Thompson BT, Schoenfeld D, Wiedemann HP, deBoisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite …
• Reactivation histoplasmosis after treatment with anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha in a patient from a nonendemic area.
  Respiratory medicine 2006 Jain VV, Evans T, Peterson MW
• Comparison of Two Fluid Management Strategies in Acute Lung Injury: The Fluid and Catheter Treatment Trial (FACTT) The NIH NHLBI ARDS Network
  New England Journal of Medicine 2006 Wiedemann HP, Wheeler AP, Bernard GR, Thompson BT, deBooisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite RD, Hayden D, Harabin AD, Peterson MW and the ARDS Network
• The fluid and catheter treatment trial (FACTT): pulmonary artery catheter versus central venous catheter guided treatment of acute lung injury
  New England Journal of Medicine 2006 Wheeler AP, Wiedermann HP, Bernard GR, Thompson T, deBoisblanc B, Connors AF, Hite D, Schoenfeld D, Harabin A, Peterson M and the ARDS Network
• Continuing medical education on the Internet: State of the art
  Journal of Continuing Education in Health 2005 Peterson MW
• Community-acquired pneumonia guidelines: Peering back through the looking glass...clearly?
  The American journal of medicine 2004 Peterson MW, Hornick DB
• A randomized controlled trial of an information prescription for pediatric patient education on the Internet.
  Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2004 D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Kinzer SL, Peterson MW
• An analysis of patient care questions asked by pediatricians at an academic medical center.
  Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association 2004 D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW, Kingsley P, Johnson-West J
• An evaluation of information-seeking behaviors of general pediatricians.
  Pediatrics 2004 D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW
• Computer-based testing: initial report of extensive use in a medical school curriculum.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2004 Peterson MW, Gordon J, Elliott S, Kreiter C
• Medical students' use of information resources: is the digital age dawning?
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2004 Peterson MW, Rowat J, Kreiter C, Mandel J
• Accessing the tools for improved asthma management.
  The American journal of medicine 2003 Peterson MW
• The effects of testing in shifts on a clinical in-course computerized exam.
  Medical education 2003 Kreiter C, Peterson MW, Ferguson K, Elliott S
• Patient use of the internet for information in a lung cancer clinic.
  Chest 2003 Peterson MW, Fretz PC
• The Results of Testing on Separate Days in a Medical School Course
  Medical Education 2003 Kreiter C, Ferguson K, Elliott S and Peterson M
• Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity negatively regulates stability of cyclooxygenase 2 mRNA.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2002 Monick MM, Robeff PK, Butler NS, Flaherty DM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• FDG-PET imaging and the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer in a region of high histoplasmosis prevalence.
  Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2002 Croft DR, Trapp J, Kernstine K, Kirchner P, Mullan B, Galvin J, Peterson MW, Gross T, McLennan G, Kern JA
• Oxidant-mediated increases in redox factor-1 nuclear protein and activator protein-1 DNA binding in asbestos-treated macrophages.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2002 Flaherty DM, Monick MM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• An evaluation of the quality and contents of asthma education on the World Wide Web.
  Chest 2002 Croft DR, Peterson MW
• Caught in the Web? The Prospects of Online Health Information for Patients
  Chest Journal 2002 Peterson MW
• Email recruitment to use web decision support tools for pneumonia.
  Proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2002 Flanagan JR, Peterson M, Dayton C, Strommer Pace L, Plank A, Walker K, Carlson WS
• Is that your final answer? Relationship of changed answers to overall performance on a computer-based medical school course examination.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2002 Ferguson KJ, Kreiter CD, Peterson MW, Rowat JA, Elliott ST
• Ceramide regulates lipopolysaccharide-induced phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Akt activity in human alveolar macrophages.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2001 Monick MM, Mallampalli RK, Carter AB, Flaherty DM, McCoy D, Robeff PK, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• GM-CSF increases AP-1 DNA binding and Ref-1 amounts in human alveolar macrophages.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2001 Flaherty DM, Monick MM, Carter AB, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• Asthma patient education: current utilization in pulmonary training programs.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2001 Peterson MW, Strommer-Pace L, Dayton C
• Lipopolysaccharide activates Akt in human alveolar macrophages resulting in nuclear accumulation and transcriptional activity of beta-catenin.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2001 Monick MM, Carter AB, Robeff PK, Flaherty DM, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• Protein kinase C zeta plays a central role in activation of the p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase by endotoxin in alveolar macrophages.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2000 Monick MM, Carter AB, Flaherty DM, Peterson MW, Hunninghake GW
• Evaluation of an Internet-based decision-support system for applying the ATS/CDC guidelines for tuberculosis preventive therapy.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2000 Dayton CS, Ferguson JS, Hornick DB, Peterson MW
• Evaluation of internet-based clinical decision support systems.
  Journal of medical Internet research 1999 Thomas KW, Dayton CS, Peterson MW
• Asthma guidelines: an assessment of physician understanding and practice.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 1999 Doerschug KC, Peterson MW, Dayton CS, Kline JN
• Realizing the promise: delivering pulmonary continuing medical education over the Internet.
  Chest 1999 Peterson MW, Galvin JR, Dayton C, D'Alessandro MP
• Academic Medicine
  Academic Medicine 1999 Peterson MW
• Asbestos-induced lung epithelial permeability: potential role of nonoxidant pathways.
  The American journal of physiology 1998 Peterson MW, Kirschbaum J
• Occupational lung disease.
  Disease-a-month : DM 1998 Schwartz DA, Peterson MW
• CD11b/CD18 mediates the neutrophil chemotactic activity of fibrin degradation product D domain.
  Thrombosis and haemostasis 1997 Gross TJ, Leavell KJ, Peterson MW
• Human neutrophil elastase abolishes interleukin-8 chemotactic activity.
  Journal of leukocyte biology 1997 Leavell KJ, Peterson MW, Gross TJ
• Occupational lung disease.
  Advances in internal medicine 1997 Schwartz DA, Peterson MW
• The role of fibrin degradation products in neutrophil recruitment to the lung.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 1996 Leavell KJ, Peterson MW, Gross TJ
• Effect of neutrophil mediators on epithelial permeability.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 1995 Peterson MW, Walter ME, Nygaard SD
• Predicting postoperative pulmonary function in patients undergoing lung resection.
  Chest 1995 Zeiher BG, Gross TJ, Kern JA, Lanza LA, Peterson MW
• Thermal stress induces epithelial permeability.
  The American journal of physiology 1994 Moseley PL, Gapen C, Wallen ES, Walter ME, Peterson MW
• Asbestos exposure increases paracellular transport of fibrin degradation products across human airway epithelium.
  The American journal of physiology 1994 Gross TJ, Cobb SM, Peterson MW
• Defensins reduce the barrier integrity of a cultured epithelial monolayer without cytotoxicity.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 1993 Nygaard SD, Ganz T, Peterson MW
• A cytosolic inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase and cathepsin G.
  Journal of leukocyte biology 1991 Thomas RM, Nauseef WM, Iyer SS, Peterson MW, Stone PJ, Clark RA
• A23187 increases permeability of MDCK monolayers independent of phospholipase activation.
  The American journal of physiology 1990 Peterson MW, Gruenhaupt D
• Neutrophil cathepsin G increases transendothelial albumin flux.
  The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 1989 Peterson MW
• An unusual cause of massive pleural effusion in pregnancy.
  Thorax 1988 Wolfe CA, Peterson MW
• Effects of albumin concentration on endothelial albumin transport in vitro.
  The American journal of physiology 1987 Shasby DM, Peterson MW
• Cationic Neutrophil Proteins Increase Albumin Transfer Across a Cultured Endothelial
  J. Appl. Physiol. 1987 Peterson, M, Stone P, and Shasby, DM
• Cationic neutrophil proteins increase transendothelial albumin movement.
  Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 1987 Peterson MW, Stone P, Shasby DM
• Influenza A virus enhances the human polymorphonuclear leukocyte chemoluminescence response without effecting inhibition by trifluoperazine.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 1984 Peterson MW, Busse WW