Dr. Leslie D Kerr MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
5 East 98th Street Box 1118 Mount Sinai Hospital New York NY, 10029About
Dr. Leslie Kerr is a rheumatologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Kerr specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Kerr treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Differential serine phosphorylation regulates IkappaB-alpha inactivation.
- Use of genetically altered mice to investigate the role of nuclear factor-kappa B activation and cytokine gene expression in sepsis-induced ARDS.
- Isolated abdominal vasculitis as an atypical presentation of Wegener's granulomatosis.
- Reovirus-induced apoptosis requires activation of transcription factor NF-kappaB.
- Nuclear factor-kappaB/Rel is apoptogenic in cytokine withdrawal-induced
- Mesenchymal expression of nuclear factor-kappaB inhibits epithelial growth and branching in the embryonic chick lung.
- Multiorgan nuclear factor kappa B activation in a transgenic mouse model of systemic inflammation.
- Dynamic expression and activity of NF-kappaB during post-natal mammary gland morphogenesis.
- Lymphocytes lacking I kappa B-alpha develop normally, but have selective defects in proliferation and function.
- RAG2-/-, I kappa B-alpha-/- chimeras display a psoriasiform skin disease.
- Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) regulates proliferation and branching in mouse mammary epithelium.
- NF-kappaB mediates FGF signal regulation of msx-1 expression.
- Screening tools for depression in primary care: the effects of culture, gender, and somatic symptoms on the detection of depression.
- Purified I kappa B-beta is inactivated upon dephosphorylation.
- I kappa B gamma, a 70 kd protein identical to the C-terminal half of p110 NF-kappa B: a new member of the I kappa B family.
Fellowships
- Mount Sinai Hospital
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