John Greenland, MD, PhD

Associate Professor in Residence
Medicine

Dr. Greenland is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford and completed his PhD through the Harvard graduate program in Virology. He received an MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology.

He serves as an attending physician in the intensive care unit, pulmonary consult service, and outpatient pulmonary clinic at the SF VAHCS. He is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation and serves on the programming committee for the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

His research is focused on improving outcomes following lung transplantation. His group demonstrated that airway brush gene expression patterns can identify lung transplant recipients who at risk for graft failure or death. This novel diagnostic tool has substantial advantages over standard of care approaches and may accelerate clinical trials and personalize therapies to preserve the transplanted lung. His work has also uncovered novel patterns of rejection, including epithelial cell reprogramming, dysbiosis, and activation of T and Natural Killer cells in the airways of transplant recipients.

This research leverages a large bio-repository for cellular immunology, genomic, epigenetic, and bulk and single cell transcriptomic techniques, as well as mouse models to understand airway infections, acute and chronic lung transplant rejection, with a goal of improving outcomes following lung transplantation.

Publications

A pan-respiratory antiviral chemotype targeting a transient host multi-protein complex.

Open biology

Michon M, Müller-Schiffmann A, Lingappa AF, Yu SF, Du L, Deiter F, Broce S, Mallesh S, Crabtree J, Lingappa UF, Macieik A, Müller L, Ostermann PN, Andrée M, Adams O, Schaal H, Hogan RJ, Tripp RA, Appaiah U, Anand SK, Campi TW, Ford MJ, Reed JC, Lin J, Akintunde O, Copeland K, Nichols C, Petrouski E, Moreira AR, Jiang IT, DeYarman N, Brown I, Lau S, Segal I, Goldsmith D, Hong S, Asundi V, Briggs EM, Phyo NS, Froehlich M, Onisko B, Matlack K, Dey D, Lingappa JR, Prasad DM, Kitaygorodskyy A, Solas D, Boushey H, Greenland J, Pillai S, Lo MK, Montgomery JM, Spiropoulou CF, Korth C, Selvarajah S, Paulvannan K, Lingappa VR

A Pan-respiratory Antiviral Chemotype Targeting a Transient Host Multiprotein Complex.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Müller-Schiffmann A, Michon M, Lingappa AF, Yu SF, Du L, Deiter F, Broce S, Mallesh S, Crabtree J, Lingappa UF, Macieik A, Müller L, Ostermann PN, Andrée M, Adams O, Schaal H, Hogan RJ, Tripp RA, Appaiah U, Anand SK, Campi TW, Ford MJ, Reed JC, Lin J, Akintunde O, Copeland K, Nichols C, Petrouski E, Moreira AR, Jiang IT, DeYarman N, Brown I, Lau S, Segal I, Goldsmith D, Hong S, Asundi V, Briggs EM, Phyo NS, Froehlich M, Onisko B, Matlack K, Dey D, Lingappa JR, Prasad MD, Kitaygorodskyy A, Solas D, Boushey H, Greenland J, Pillai S, Lo MK, Montgomery JM, Spiropoulou CF, Korth C, Selvarajah S, Paulvannan K, Lingappa VR

The 2022 Banff Meeting Lung Report.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Pavlisko EN, Adam BA, Berry GJ, Calabrese F, Cortes-Santiago N, Glass CH, Goddard M, Greenland JR, Kreisel D, Levine DJ, Martinu T, Verleden SE, Sam WS, Roux A

A myeloid program associated with COVID-19 severity is decreased by therapeutic blockade of IL-6 signaling.

iScience

Hackney JA, Shivram H, Vander Heiden J, Overall C, Orozco L, Gao X, Kim E, West N, Qamra A, Chang D, Chakrabarti A, Choy DF, Combes AJ, Courau T, Fragiadakis GK, Rao AA, Ray A, Tsui J, Hu K, Kuhn NF, Krummel MF, Erle DJ, Kangelaris K, Sarma A, Lyon Z, Calfee CS, Woodruff PG, Ghale R, Mick E, Byrne A, Zha BS, Langelier C, Hendrickson CM, van der Wijst MGP, Hartoularos GC, Grant T, Bueno R, Lee DS, Greenland JR, Sun Y, Perez R, Ogorodnikov A, Ward A, Ye CJ, UCSF COMET Consortium, Ramalingam T, McBride JM, Cai F, Teterina A, Bao M, Tsai L, Rosas IO, Regev A, Kapadia SB, Bauer RN, Rosenberger CM

Development of the Lung Transplant Frailty Scale (LT-FS).

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation

Singer JP, Christie JD, Diamond JM, Anderson MA, Benvenuto LA, Gao Y, Arcasoy SM, Lederer DJ, Calabrese D, Wang P, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, Betancourt L, Oyster M, Zaleski D, Adler J, Kalman L, Balar P, Patel S, Medikonda N, Koons B, Tevald M, Covinsky KE, Greenland JR, Katz PK

Subphenotypes of frailty in lung transplant candidates.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Singer JP, Calfee CS, Delucchi K, Diamond JM, Anderson MA, Benvenuto LA, Gao Y, Wang P, Arcasoy SM, Lederer DJ, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Leard L LE, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, Betancourt L, Oyster M, Brown M, Zaleski D, Medikonda N, Kalman L, Balar P, Patel S, Calabrese DR, Greenland JR, Christie JD

Contemporary trends in PGD incidence, outcomes, and therapies.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation

Cantu E, Diamond JM, Cevasco M, Suzuki Y, Crespo M, Clausen E, Dallara L, Ramon CV, Harmon MT, Bermudez C, Benvenuto L, Anderson M, Wille KM, Weinacker A, Dhillon GS, Orens J, Shah P, Merlo C, Lama V, McDyer J, Snyder L, Palmer S, Hartwig M, Hage CA, Singer J, Calfee C, Kukreja J, Greenland JR, Ware LB, Localio R, Hsu J, Gallop R, Christie JD

Construct and Predictive Validity of Sarcopenia in Lung Transplant Candidates.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Maheshwari JA, Kolaitis NA, Anderson MR, Benvenuto L, Gao Y, Katz PP, Greenland J, Wolters PJ, Covinsky K, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Calabrese DR, Venado A, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Trinh B, Huang CY, Glidden D, Kleinhenz ME, Golden JA, Sutter N, Tietje-Ulrich G, Criner RN, Arcasoy SM, Christie JD, Diamond J, Singer JP

Type I interferon autoantibodies are associated with systemic immune alterations in patients with COVID-19.

Science translational medicine

van der Wijst MGP, Vazquez SE, Hartoularos GC, Bastard P, Grant T, Bueno R, Lee DS, Greenland JR, Sun Y, Perez R, Ogorodnikov A, Ward A, Mann SA, Lynch KL, Yun C, Havlir DV, Chamie G, Marquez C, Greenhouse B, Lionakis MS, Norris PJ, Dumont LJ, Kelly K, Zhang P, Zhang Q, Gervais A, Le Voyer T, Whatley A, Si Y, Byrne A, Combes AJ, Rao AA, Song YS, Fragiadakis GK, Kangelaris K, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Hendrickson C, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Langelier CR, Casanova JL, Derisi JL, Anderson MS, Ye CJ, UCSF COMET consortium

Longitudinal single-cell epitope and RNA-sequencing reveals the immunological impact of type 1 interferon autoantibodies in critical COVID-19.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

van der Wijst MGP, Vazquez SE, Hartoularos GC, Bastard P, Grant T, Bueno R, Lee DS, Greenland JR, Sun Y, Perez R, Ogorodnikov A, Ward A, Mann SA, Lynch KL, Yun C, Havlir DV, Chamie G, Marquez C, Greenhouse B, Lionakis MS, Norris PJ, Dumont LJ, Kelly K, Zhang P, Zhang Q, Gervais A, Voyer TL, Whatley A, Si Y, Byrne A, Combes AJ, Rao AA, Song YS, UCSF COMET consortium, Fragiadakis GK, Kangelaris K, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Hendrickson C, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Langelier CR, Casanova JL, Derisi JL, Anderson MS, Ye CJ

Type-1 immunity and endogenous immune regulators predominate in the airway transcriptome during chronic lung allograft dysfunction.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Iasella CJ, Hoji A, Popescu I, Wei J, Snyder ME, Zhang Y, Xu W, Iouchmanov V, Koshy R, Brown M, Fung M, Langelier C, Lendermon EA, Dugger D, Shah R, Lee J, Johnson B, Golden J, Leard LE, Ellen Kleinhenz M, Kilaru S, Hays SR, Singer JP, Sanchez PG, Morrell MR, Pilewski JM, Greenland JR, Chen K, McDyer JF

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation consensus statement for the standardization of bronchoalveolar lavage in lung transplantation.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation

Martinu T, Koutsokera A, Benden C, Cantu E, Chambers D, Cypel M, Edelman J, Emtiazjoo A, Fisher AJ, Greenland JR, Hayes D, Hwang D, Keller BC, Lease ED, Perch M, Sato M, Todd JL, Verleden S, von der Thüsen J, Weigt SS, Keshavjee S, bronchoalveolar lavage standardization workgroup

Tacrolimus trough monitoring guided by mass spectrometry without accounting for assay differences is associated with acute kidney injury in lung transplant recipients.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Kolaitis NA, Calabrese DR, Ahearn P, Venado A, Florez R, Lei HL, Isaak K, Henricksen E, Martinez E, Chong T, Shah RJ, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Golden J, De Marco T, Greenland JR, Kukreja J, Hays SR, Blanc PD, Singer JP

Adipose tissue quantification and primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation: The Lung Transplant Body Composition study.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation

Anderson MR, Udupa JK, Edwin E, Diamond JM, Singer JP, Kukreja J, Hays SR, Greenland JR, Ferrante A, Lippel M, Blue T, McBurnie A, Oyster M, Kalman L, Rushefski M, Wu C, Pednekar G, Liu W, Arcasoy S, Sonett J, D'Ovidio F, Bacchetta M, Newell JD, Torigian D, Cantu E, Farber DL, Giles JT, Tong Y, Palmer S, Ware LB, Hancock WW, Christie JD, Lederer DJ

Frailty trajectories in adult lung transplantation: A cohort study.

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation

Venado A, McCulloch C, Greenland JR, Katz P, Soong A, Shrestha P, Hays S, Golden J, Shah R, Leard LE, Kleinhenz ME, Kukreja J, Zablotska L, Allen IE, Covinsky K, Blanc P, Singer JP

Frailty phenotypes and mortality after lung transplantation: A prospective cohort study.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Singer JP, Diamond JM, Anderson MR, Katz PP, Covinsky K, Oyster M, Blue T, Soong A, Kalman L, Shrestha P, Arcasoy SM, Greenland JR, Shah L, Kukreja J, Blumenthal NP, Easthausen I, Golden JA, McBurnie A, Cantu E, Sonett J, Hays S, Robbins H, Raza K, Bacchetta M, Shah RJ, D'Ovidio F, Venado A, Christie JD, Lederer DJ

Frailty Phenotypes, Disability, and Outcomes in Adult Candidates for Lung Transplantation.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Singer JP, Diamond JM, Gries CJ, McDonnough J, Blanc PD, Shah R, Dean MY, Hersh B, Wolters PJ, Tokman S, Arcasoy SM, Ramphal K, Greenland JR, Smith N, Heffernan P, Shah L, Shrestha P, Golden JA, Blumenthal NP, Huang D, Sonett J, Hays S, Oyster M, Katz PP, Robbins H, Brown M, Leard LE, Kukreja J, Bacchetta M, Bush E, D'Ovidio F, Rushefski M, Raza K, Christie JD, Lederer DJ

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