Thomas Richard Hawn
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104About
Dr. Thomas Hawn is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Hawn specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1995
John Hopkins University SOM 1995
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1998
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The innate immune response to bacterial flagellin is mediated by Toll-like
- Pyogenic bacterial infections in humans with IRAK-4 deficiency.
- Cutting edge: a Toll-like receptor 2 polymorphism that is associated with lepromatous leprosy is unable to mediate mycobacterial signaling.
- Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms are associated with resistance to Legionnaires' disease.
- Host susceptibility and clinical outcomes in toll-like receptor 5-deficient patients with typhoid fever in Vietnam.
- Towards subtlety: understanding the role of Toll-like receptor signaling in susceptibility to human infections.
- A polymorphism in Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain containing adaptor protein is associated with susceptibility to meningeal tuberculosis.
- Cutting edge: Tlr5-/- mice are more susceptible to Escherichia coli urinary tract
- Toll-like receptor-4 mediates vascular inflammation and insulin resistance in diet-induced obesity.
- A common human TLR1 polymorphism regulates the innate immune response to lipopeptides.
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis, macrophages, and the innate immune response: does common variation matter?
- Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) polymorphisms are associated with reversal reaction
- Toll-like receptor polymorphisms and susceptibility to human disease.
- Toll-like receptor stimulation induces higher TNF-alpha secretion in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with hyper IgE syndrome.
- The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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- UW - Allergy & Infectious Diseases
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