Duke Health Provider
Karen E. Welty-Wolf, MD
Pulmonologist
Duke Health Provider
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Where I See Patients
Durham VA Health Care System - Durham, NC
Board Certified
American Board of Internal Med, Internal Medicine
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My Locations
Durham VA Health Care System
Open
508 Fulton St
Durham,
NC
27705
About Me
Current Appointments and Affiliations
- Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine 2017
Languages I Speak
English
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Training and Education
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Med, Internal Medicine
Residency
Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1986-1989
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, 1989-1993
Education
MD, Duke University School of Medicine, 1986
Clinical Focus and Research
Publications and Grants
Grants10
Academic Articles61
Conference Papers13
- Interdisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2021
- Baddour, Larry M., Imre Janszky, Martin H. Thornhill, Zerelda Esquer Garrigos, Daniel C. DeSimone, Karen Welty-Wolf, Annette L. Baker, et al. “Nondental Invasive Procedures and Risk of Infective Endocarditis: Time for a Revisit: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association.” Circulation 148, no. 19 (November 7, 2023): 1529–41. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001180.
- Pleasants, Roy A., Armando D. Bedoya, Joel M. Boggan, Karen Welty-Wolf, and Robert M. Tighe. “The Eyes Have It-for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: a Preliminary Observation.” Pulm Ther 8, no. 3 (September 2022): 327–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41030-022-00198-5.
- Suliman, Hagir B., Zachary Healy, Fabio Zobi, Bryan D. Kraft, Karen Welty-Wolf, Joshua Smith, Christina Barkauskas, and Claude A. Piantadosi. “Nuclear respiratory factor-1 negatively regulates TGF-β1 and attenuates pulmonary fibrosis.” IScience 25, no. 1 (January 21, 2022): 103535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103535.
- Kaur, A., A. Reihman, R. A. Pleasants, J. Boggan, L. Howard, R. Kundich, K. E. Welty-Wolf, A. Bedoya, and R. M. Tighe. “Assessing the Frequency of Pulmonary Function Testing in Veterans with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis at Time of Diagnosis.” In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Vol. 201, 2020.
- Chen, L., B. D. Kraft, V. L. Roggli, H. Suliman, C. A. Piantadosi, and K. E. Welty-Wolf. “Blood Filtration Using Dialysis-Like Therapy Attenuates Organ Injury in Nonhuman Primates with Severe Streptococcus Pneumoniae Sepsis.” In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Vol. 199. AMER THORACIC SOC, 2019.
- Reihman, A., A. Bedoya, R. A. Pleasants, J. Boggan, L. Howard, R. Kundich, K. E. Welty-Wolf, and R. M. Tighe. “Initial Pulmonary Function Patterns Define Clinical Characteristics in Veterans Affairs Cohort with Interstitial Lung Disease.” In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Vol. 197. AMER THORACIC SOC, 2018.
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