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Mario F. Perez, M.D., M.P.H., ATSF

Associate Professor of Medicine

NPI Number: 1104891738
Academic Office Location: Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine UConn Health 263 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030-1321
Phone:	860-679-8300
Fax:	860-679-8344
Website(s):	Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Education & Training
Clinical Interests
Committees & Organizations
Publications
Presentations

Education

Degree	Institution	Major
M.D.	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Medicine
MPH	Yale School of Public Health	Public Health

Degree

Institution

Major

M.D.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Medicine

MPH

Yale School of Public Health

Public Health

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Residency	Hospital Militar Central	Otolaryngology
Residency	UConn School of Medicine	Categorical Internal Medicine
Fellowship	Yale School of Medicine	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Training

Institution

Specialty

Residency

Hospital Militar Central

Otolaryngology

Residency

UConn School of Medicine

Categorical Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Yale School of Medicine

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Awards

Name of Award/Honor	Awarding Organization
American Thoracic Fellow	ATS
Minority Trainee Travel Award	American Thoracic Society
Top Ten Intern(s)	Association of Colombian Medical Schools, ASCOFAME

Name of Award/Honor

Awarding Organization

American Thoracic Fellow

ATS

Minority Trainee Travel Award

American Thoracic Society

Top Ten Intern(s)

Association of Colombian Medical Schools, ASCOFAME

Personalized approach to asthma and its management, and the use and implementation of protocols in the management of patient in the intensive care unit.

Name & Description	Category	Role	Type	Scope	Start Year	End Year
American Thoracic Society	Professional/Scientific Organization	Fellow	External	National	2023
Reviewer for The International Journal of Molecular Sciences	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2023
Reviewer for the Journal of Respiration	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2023
Reviewer for Toxics	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2023
Reviewer for the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2023
Reviewer for Respiratory Research	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2023
Reviewer for the European Respiratory Journal	Professional/Scientific Journal	Reviewer	External	International	2022
Environmental and Health Policy Committee. ATS.	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National	2020	2022
American College of Physicians	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
American College of Chest Physicians	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National

Name & Description

Journal Articles

Transcriptomic responses in the blood and sputum of cigarette smokers compared to e-cigarette vapers.
Perez, Mario F; Yurieva, Marina; Poddutoori, Spandana; Mortensen, Eric M; Crotty Alexander, Laura E; Williams, Adam Respiratory research 2023 May;24(1):134
E-cigarettes and Respiratory Disorder: The Broader Context.
Wills, Thomas A; Choi, Kelvin; Perez, Mario F Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2023 Feb;
Metformin Use Is Associated With Lower Mortality in Veterans With Diabetes Hospitalized With Pneumonia.
Mohammed, Turab; Bowe, Michael; Plant, Alexandria; Perez, Mario; Alvarez, Carlos A; Mortensen, Eric M Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022 Dec;
E-liquids and vaping devices: public policy regarding their effects on young people and health.
Advani, Ira N; Perez, Mario; Crotty Alexander, Laura E The Medical journal of Australia 2022 Jan;216(1):23-24
E-Cigarette Use in Young Adult Never Cigarette Smokers with Disabilities: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey.
Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Litt, Mark D; Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra; Laubenbacher, Reinhard C; Perez, Mario F; Mortensen, Eric M International journal of environmental research and public health 2021 May;18(10):
The inflammatory biomarker YKL-40 is elevated in the serum, but not the sputum, of E-cigarette users.
Perez, Mario F; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Mortensen, Eric M; Oncken, Cheryl Experimental lung research 2021 Feb;1-12
Biomarkers of Toxicant Exposure and Inflammation Among Women of Reproductive Age Who Use Electronic or Conventional Cigarettes.
Perez, Mario F; Mead, Erin L; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Mortensen, Eric M; Goniewicz, Maciej; Oncken, Cheryl Journal of women's health (2002) 2021 Feb;
Factors Associated with E-Cigarette Use in U.S. Young Adult Never Smokers of Conventional Cigarettes: A Machine Learning Approach.
Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Oncken, Cheryl; Laubenbacher, Reinhard C; Perez, Mario F; Mortensen, Eric M International journal of environmental research and public health 2020 Oct;17(19):
Stethoscope hygiene: Using cultures and real-time feedback with bioluminescence-based adenosine triphosphate technology to change behavior.
Holleck, Jürgen L; Campbell, Sheldon; Alrawili, Hedib; Frank, Cynthia; Merchant, Naseema; Rodwin, Benjamin; Perez, Mario F; Gupta, Shaili; Federman, Daniel G; Chang, John J; Vientos, Wilson; Dembry, Louise American journal of infection control 2020 Apr;48(4):380-385
Identifying, tracking, and treating lung injury associated with e-cigarettes or vaping.
Alexander, Laura E Crotty; Perez, Mario F Lancet (London, England) 2019 Dec;394(10214):2041-2043
E-cigarette use is associated with a self-reported diagnosis of prediabetes in never cigarette smokers: Results from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system survey.
Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Perez, Mario F; Oncken, Cheryl; Mead, Erin L; Maheshwari, Narinder; Mortensen, Eric M Drug and alcohol dependence 2019 Oct;205107692
Adult E-Cigarettes Use Associated with a Self-Reported Diagnosis of COPD.
Perez, Mario F; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Mead, Erin L; Oncken, Cheryl; Mortensen, Eric M International journal of environmental research and public health 2019 Oct;16(20):
Association of atypical antipsychotics and mortality for patients hospitalised with pneumonia.
Boivin, Zachary; Perez, Mario F; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Metersky, Mark; Alvarez, Carlos A; Anzueto, Antonio; Mortensen, Eric M ERJ open research 2019 Oct;5(4):
Association of Electronic Cigarette Use and Asthma in Never Smokers.
Perez, Mario F; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Oncken, Cheryl; Mead, Erin L; Mortensen, Eric M Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2019 Aug;
E-cigarette Use Is Associated with Non-prescribed Medication Use in Adults: Results from the PATH Survey.
Bentivegna, Kathryn; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Oncken, Cheryl; Mead, Erin L; Perez, Mario F; Mortensen, Eric M Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Jun;
Association between Regular Electronic Nicotine Product Use and Self-reported Periodontal Disease Status: Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Survey.
Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Perez, Mario F; Oncken, Cheryl; Thacker, Sejal; Mead, Erin L; Mortensen, Eric M International journal of environmental research and public health 2019 Apr;16(7):
Impact of Cirrhosis on Pneumonia-Related Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Veterans.
Boivin, Zachary; Perez, Mario F; Atuegwu, Nkiruka C; Anzueto, Antonio; Mortensen, Eric M The American journal of the medical sciences 2019 Apr;357(4):296-301
How to translate the new hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia guideline to the bedside.
Perez, Mario F; Metersky, Mark L; Kalil, Andre C Current opinion in critical care 2017 Oct;23(5):355-363
Number of Consults and Response Times to ED: Effects on Patient Flow and Outcomes.
Perez, Mario F; Holleck, Jurgen L; Sfondrini, Michael; Nemergut, Edward; Gunderson, Craig G; Federman, Daniel G Connecticut medicine 2017 Feb;81(2):69-73
Noninvasive Analysis of the Sputum Transcriptome Discriminates Clinical Phenotypes of Asthma.
Yan, Xiting; Chu, Jen-Hwa; Gomez, Jose; Koenigs, Maria; Holm, Carole; He, Xiaoxuan; Perez, Mario F; Zhao, Hongyu; Mane, Shrikant; Martinez, Fernando D; Ober, Carole; Nicolae, Dan L; Barnes, Kathleen C; London, Stephanie J; Gilliland, Frank; Weiss, Scott T; Raby, Benjamin A; Cohn, Lauren; Chupp, Geoffrey L Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2016 Mar;13 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S104-5
Noninvasive analysis of the sputum transcriptome discriminates clinical phenotypes of asthma.
Yan, Xiting; Chu, Jen-Hwa; Gomez, Jose; Koenigs, Maria; Holm, Carole; He, Xiaoxuan; Perez, Mario F; Zhao, Hongyu; Mane, Shrikant; Martinez, Fernando D; Ober, Carole; Nicolae, Dan L; Barnes, Kathleen C; London, Stephanie J; Gilliland, Frank; Weiss, Scott T; Raby, Benjamin A; Cohn, Lauren; Chupp, Geoffrey L American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2015 May;191(10):1116-25

Case Reports

Necrotizing Pancreatitis: To Anticoagulate or Not to Anticoagulate?
Simon P. Abi-Saleh , Ethan A. Miller , Anil Magge , Mario Perez Cureus

Editorials

Reply: E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI): A Response to Perez and Crotty Alexander.
Perez, Mario; Crotty Alexander, Laura E Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2020 Apr;
Reply: E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI): A Response to Perez and Crotty Alexander.
Perez, Mario; Crotty Alexander, Laura E Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2020 Apr;
Why Is Vaping Going up in Flames?
Perez, Mario; Crotty Alexander, Laura E Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2020 Jan;
Counterpoint: Are advanced practice professionals more likely to achieve better tobacco cessation results than physicians? No.
Perez, Mario F; Bastian, Lori A; Oncken, Cheryl Chest 2017 Apr;152469-471
Rebuttal From Drs. Perez, Bastian and Oncken.
Perez, Mario F; Bastian, Lori A; Oncken, Cheryl Chest 2017 Apr;152473-474

Letters

Survival and Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Letter to the Editor, NEJM 2010 Jan;363,2263-2265

Reviews

An Overview of Health Disparities in Asthma.
Perez, Mario F; Coutinho, Maria Teresa The Yale journal of biology and medicine 2021 Sep;94(3):497-507

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
A Case of Steroid Unresponsive Bortezomib-Induced Pneumonitis	Poster	ATS 2023	2023	Washington DC
A Case of a 67-Year-Old Female With Neurological Manifestation of Fat Embolism Syndrome Without Acute Cardiopulmonary Involvement	Poster	ATS	2023	Washington DC
Consider The Patient: A Case Of Clinical Correlation Versus Laboratory Proof In Miliary Tuberculosis	Poster	ATS	2023	Washington DC
HEMOPTYSIS IN A PATIENT WITH HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS: NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. Lead by Mentee Dr. Augusto Amaral Neto.	Poster		2023	Hawaii
Keynote Presentation: EVALI: E-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury - American Lung Association Virtual LUNG FORCE Expo	Lecture		2021	Virtual
Middlesex Hospital Grand Rounds Asthma Guidelines Update	Lecture		2021	Middletown, CT
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EVALI EPIDEMIC: What Should I Advise My Patients and the Public About Vaping?	Lecture		2021	ATS virtual conference
SUBMASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN THE SETTING OF HEPARIN-INDUCEDTHROMBOCYTOPENIA	Poster	CHEST	2019	New Orleans, LA
COPD Is Associated With E-cig Use Among Non-Smokers In BRFSS 2016	Panel Discussion	ATS	2019	Dallas, TX
E-cigarettes: A primer for the pulmonologist and EVALI Review	Lecture	ALA	2019	Rocky Hill, CT
"An Asthma Update", Grand Rounds Department of Medicine	Lecture		2016	UCHC
What to expect when you are expecting and can't breathe!	Lecture	UConn	2016
Time of Admission to the ICU and its Effect on Mortality	Poster	ATS	2012
The Chitinase-Like Protein YKL-40 Correlates with IL-18 After Segmental Antigen Challenge	Poster	ATS	2010
Chitinase and Chitinase-like Pathway Characterization in Adult Asthma Using Induced Sputum	Poster	ATS	2010
Genome Wide Expression In Induced Sputum of Asthmatic Patients	Poster		2009
Self-Reported Awareness and Compliance With Healthy Behaviors and Other Factors That Affect The Management of Hypertension of Puerto Ricans In The Ambulatory Care Setting	Poster	CT Society of Internal Medicine Poster	2003
GI Bleed: Hemossucus Pancreaticus	Poster	ACP/ASIM Connecticut Chapter Meeting	2002

Title or Abstract

Type

Sponsor/Event

Date/Year

Location

A Case of Steroid Unresponsive Bortezomib-Induced Pneumonitis

Poster

ATS 2023

2023

Washington DC

A Case of a 67-Year-Old Female With Neurological Manifestation of Fat Embolism Syndrome Without Acute Cardiopulmonary Involvement

Poster

ATS

2023

Washington DC

Consider The Patient: A Case Of Clinical Correlation Versus Laboratory Proof In Miliary Tuberculosis

Poster

ATS

2023

Washington DC

HEMOPTYSIS IN A PATIENT WITH HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS: NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. Lead by Mentee Dr. Augusto Amaral Neto.

Poster

2023

Hawaii

Keynote Presentation: EVALI: E-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury - American Lung Association Virtual LUNG FORCE Expo

Lecture

2021

Virtual

Middlesex Hospital Grand Rounds Asthma Guidelines Update

Lecture

2021

Middletown, CT

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EVALI EPIDEMIC: What Should I Advise My Patients and the Public About Vaping?

Lecture

2021

ATS virtual conference

SUBMASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN THE SETTING OF HEPARIN-INDUCEDTHROMBOCYTOPENIA

Poster

CHEST

2019

New Orleans, LA

COPD Is Associated With E-cig Use Among Non-Smokers In BRFSS 2016

Panel Discussion

ATS

2019

Dallas, TX

E-cigarettes: A primer for the pulmonologist and EVALI Review

Lecture

ALA

2019

Rocky Hill, CT

"An Asthma Update", Grand Rounds Department of Medicine

Lecture

2016

UCHC

What to expect when you are expecting and can't breathe!

Lecture

UConn

2016

Time of Admission to the ICU and its Effect on Mortality

Poster

ATS

2012

The Chitinase-Like Protein YKL-40 Correlates with IL-18 After Segmental Antigen Challenge

Poster

ATS

2010

Chitinase and Chitinase-like Pathway Characterization in Adult Asthma Using Induced Sputum

Poster

ATS

2010

Genome Wide Expression In Induced Sputum of Asthmatic Patients

Poster

2009

Self-Reported Awareness and Compliance With Healthy Behaviors and Other Factors That Affect The Management of Hypertension of Puerto Ricans In The Ambulatory Care Setting

Poster

CT Society of Internal Medicine Poster

2003

GI Bleed: Hemossucus Pancreaticus

Poster

ACP/ASIM Connecticut Chapter Meeting

2002