Dr. Stephen K Frankel MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1400 Jackson St Denver CO, 80206Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Stephen Frankel practices Pulmonology in Denver, CO. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Frankel manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1995
Harvard Medical School 1995
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease- 2000
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Heterogeneity in the phosphorylation of human death receptors by p42(mapk/erk2).
- IL-4-induced macrophage-derived IGF-I protects myofibroblasts from apoptosis following growth factor withdrawal.
- Human insulin-like growth factor-IA expression in transgenic mice promotes adenomatous hyperplasia but not pulmonary fibrosis.
- Hierarchical phosphorylation of the TNF-alpha receptor, TNF-R1, by p42Mapk/Erk at basic Pro-directed kinase sites.
- A rare presentation of ischemic pseudomembranous colitis due to Escherichia coli O157:H7.
- Symposium: Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference: lung injury and repair. Introduction and perspective.
- Acute exacerbations of fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a case series.
- Exercise peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) accurately reflects arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) and predicts mortality in systemic sclerosis.
- Update in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- What can biomarkers tell us about the pathogenesis of acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
- A detailed evaluation of acute respiratory decline in patients with fibrotic lung
- The pulmonary vasculitides.
- Increased cell surface Fas expression is necessary and sufficient to sensitize lung fibroblasts to Fas ligation-induced apoptosis: implications for fibroblast accumulation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- Eosinophilic lung diseases.
- The pulmonary vasculitides.
Awards
- Magazine
- 2012 Top Doctor in Denver
- American College of Chest Physicians Fellow
- American College of Physicians Fellow
Treatments
- Ild, Systemic Vasculitis
Professional Memberships
- Board Member American Thoracic Society
- Fellow American College of Chest Physicians
- Board Member American College of Physicians
- Fellow American College of Chest Physicians
- Fellow American College of Physicians
- Member American Thoracic Society
- Member European Respiratory Society
- Member Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Member Denver Medical Society
- Member Colorado Medical Society
Fellowships
- University of Colorado Denver, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1998
- University of Colorado 2001
- (Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine), UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, AURORA, CO 1998
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