Stefano Guerra

Stefano Guerra

Director, Epidemiology
Professor, Public Health
Professor, Medicine - (Tenure Track)
Research Scientist, Respiratory Sciences
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 626-7411

Work Summary

Stefano Guerra's work includes an epidemiologic study, which used a household-based approach to assess prevalence and longitudinal changes in respiratory health. Other biomarker projects include a study on molecular biomarkers of asthma and COPD from the European Community Respiratory Health Survey.

Research Interest

Stefano Guerra, MD, PhD, is a professor of Medicine, the Director of the Population Science Unit at the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, and a leading expert in the natural history and biomarkers of obstructive lung diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). As principal investigator, he is engaged in the leadership and coordination of multiple studies that use bio-specimens and phenotypic information from independent epidemiological cohorts to characterize the natural history, profile the risk factors, and identify novel biomarkers of lung diseases.

Publications

Balcells, E., Gimeno-Santos, E., de Batlle, J., Ramon, M. A., Rodríguez, E., Benet, M., Farrero, E., Ferrer, A., Guerra, S., Ferrer, J., Sauleda, J., Barberà, J. A., Agustí, À., Rodriguez-Roisin, R., Gea, J., Antó, J. M., & Garcia-Aymerich, J. (2015). Characterisation and prognosis of undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at their first hospitalisation. BMC pulmonary medicine, 15, 4.

Under-diagnosis of COPD is an important unmet medical need. We investigated the characteristics and prognosis of hospitalised patients with undiagnosed COPD.

Schultz, E., others, ., Guerra, S., others, ., & Melen, E. (2016). Predictors of Lung function change from childhood to adolescence. European Respiratory Journal.
Chang, E., Stern, D., Willis, A., Guerra, S., Wright, A., & Martinez, F. (2017). Early life risk factors for chronic sinusitis: a longitudinal birth cohort study. Journal of allergy and clinical immunology.
Parthasarathy, S., Vasquez, M. M., Halonen, M., Bootzin, R., Quan, S. F., Martinez, F. D., & Guerra, S. (2015). Persistent insomnia is associated with mortality risk. The American journal of medicine, 128(3), 268-75.e2.

Insomnia has been associated with mortality risk, but whether this association is different in subjects with persistent vs intermittent insomnia is unclear. Additionally, the role of systemic inflammation in such an association is unknown.

Guerra, S., Vasquez, M. M., Spangenberg, A., Halonen, M., & Martin, R. J. (2016). Club cell secretory protein in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage of patients with asthma. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 138(3), 932-934.e1.