Faculty
Stephen K. Frankel, M.D.

Stephen K. Frankel, M.D.
Instructor of Medicine

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1987-1991B.A.Biology

Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1995M.D.


UCD
4200 E. Ninth Ave.
Denver, CO 80262
Tel: 303.398.1511
Frankels@njc.org

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001-present
Instructor/Fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

1998-2001
Fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

1995-1998
Intern and Resident, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

July/August 1997
Chief Medical Resident, West Roxbury Veteran Administration Medical Center

1995-1998
Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University

AWARDS

2002 Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation FELLOWSHIP
2000 Andrew Goodman Fellowship in Pediatrics
2000 Glaxo-Wellcome Pulmonary Fellowship
1991 Summa Cum Laude, Harvard College
1990 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter, Harvard College
1989 and 1990 John Harvard Scholar, Harvard College
1988 Detur Scholar, Harvard College

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  1. Frankel S.K., Van Linden, A.A. and Riches, D.W.H. (2001) Heterogeneity in the Phosphorylation of Human Death Receptors by p42 mapk/erk2. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 288: 313-320.
  2. Frankel, S.K., Sullivan, E.J., and Brown, K.K. (2002) Vasculitis: Wegener’s Granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, Microscopic Polyangiitis, Polyarteritis Nodosa, and Takayasu’s Arteritis. Crit Care Clinics. In press.
  3. Van Linden, A.A., Frankel, S.K., and Riches, D.W.H. Hierarchical Phosphorylation of the TNF-a Receptor, CD120a, by p42 mapk/erk at Basic Pro-Directed Kinase Sites. Submitted: J Biol Chem
  4. Frankel, S.K., Cool, C.C., Lynch, D.A., and Brown, K.K. Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelastosis: A Novel Pathologic Entity. Submitted: Am J Respir Crit Care Med.
  5. Frankel, S.K. and Fifer, M.A., Heart Failure, in PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HEART DISEASE, 2nd edition, Leonard S. Lilly, Ed. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1998.)
  6. Frankel, S.K., Lilly, L.S. and Bittl, J., Valvular Heart Disease, in PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HEART DISEASE, 2nd edition, Leonard S. Lilly, Ed. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1998.)
  7. Frankel S. K., Hoffman, F. K. and Riches, D. W. H. CCL39 Myofibroblasts are Rescued from Growth Factor Withdrawal-Induced Apoptosis by Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I in a Phosphoinositol-3’-Kinase-Dependent Fashion. American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2001.
  8. Frankel, S.K., Wynes, M.W., and Riches, D.W.H. IL-4 stimulated macrophage supernatants rescue CCL39 myofibroblasts from growth factor-withdrawal-induced apoptosis but concurrent treatment with IFN-g suppresses this effect. Submitted: American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2002.
  9. Frankel, S.K., Cool, C.C., Lynch, D.A., and Brown, K.K. Idiopathic Pleuro-Parenchymal Fibroelastosis: A Novel Pathologic Entity. Submitted: American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2002.