• Department of Pathology
  • Pathology Staff
• Department of Laboratory Medicine
  • Laboratory Medicine Staff
• Affiliated Hospitals
  • Moffitt-Long
  • Mount Zion Medical Center
  • San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • San Francisco General
• Faculty
  • Pathology
  • Laboratory Medicine

Research and Clinical Interests

My primary focus is on clinical transfusion medicine. I also have a research interest in genetics of cardiovascular traits.

Selected Publications

• St. Lezin E, Liu W, Wang J-M, Wang N, Kren V, Krenova D, Musilova A, Zdobinska M, Zidek V, Lau D, Pravenec M. Genetic isolation of a chromosome 1 region affecting blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Hypertension 30:854-859, 1997.
• St. Lezin E, Griffin KA, Picken M, Churchill MC, Churchill PC, Kurtz TW, Liu W, Wang N, Kren V, Zidek V, Pravenec M, Bidani AK. Genetic isolation of a chromosome 1 region affecting susceptibility to hypertension-induced renal damage in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Hypertension 34:187-191, 1999.
• Aitman T, Glazier A, Wallace C, Cooper L, Norsworthy P, Wahid F, Al-Majali K, Trembling P, Mann C, Shoulders C, Graf D, St. Lezin E, Kurtz TW, Kren V, Pravenec M, Ibrahimi A, Abumrad N, Stanton L, Scott J. Identification of Cd36 (fat) as an insulin-resistance gene causing defective fatty acid and glucose metabolism in hypertensive rats. Nature Genetics 21: 76-83, 1999.
• Pravenec M, Zidek V, Simakova M, Kren V, Krenova D, Horky K, Jachymova M, Mikova B, Kazdova L, Aitman TJ, Churchill PC, Webb RC, Hingarh NH, Yang Y, Wang J, St. Lezin EM, Kurtz TW. Genetics of Cd36 and the clustering of multiple cardiovascular risk factors in spontaneous hypertension. J Clin Invest 103: 1651-1657, 1999.
• Kren V, Qi Nianning, Krenova D, Zidek V, Sladka M, Jachymova M, Mikova B, Horky K, Bonne A, Van Lith HA, Van Zutphen BFM, Lau Y-FC, Pravenec M, St. Lezin E. Transfer of chromosome Y from the brown Norway rat into the spontaneously hypertensive rat induces significant changes in blood pressure and blood lipids. Hypertension 37: 1147-1152, 2001.

Selected Awards

• 1997 American Heart Association, Scientist Development Grant Recipient
• 1998 NIH/NHLBI Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award Recipient
• 1998 Sudikow Award for Quality Improvement, UCSF/Mt.Zion Medical Center

• Associate Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Blood Bank Director VAMC
• Laboratory Medicine

Specialty Area

• Transfusion Medicine

Contact Information

• Elizabeth.st.lezin@med.va.gov
• Phone: (415) 221-4810 ext 3680
• Pager: (415) 708-8246
• Fax: (415) 750-6948

• San Francisco VA Medical Center
• Laboratory Medicine 113A

Hospital Affiliation(s)

• San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center