Elizabeth (Beth) M. St. Lezin, MD

Elizabeth (Beth) M. St. Lezin, MD

Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Assistant Chief Laboratory Medicine & Director of Transfusion Service, San Francisco VA HCS
Laboratory Medicine
Specialty Areas
Transfusion Medicine

UCSF
Laboratory Medicine, SFVAHCS 113B
4150 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121
United States

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Research and Clinical Interests
  • Clinical transfusion medicine
  • Health and quality of life outcomes in red cell transfusion recipients
  • Laboratory management and quality improvement in the clinical laboratory
  • Genetics of complex cardiovascular traits
Selected Publications
  • 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.
  • Pravenec M, Landa V, Zidek V, Musilova A, Kren V, Kazdova L, Airman TJ, Glazier AM, Ibrahimi A, Abumrad NA, Qi N, Wang J-M, St. Lezin E, Kurtz TW. Transgenic rescue of defective Cd36 improves insulin resistance and blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats.  Nature Genetics 27: 156-158, 2001.
  • St. Lezin E, Karafin MS, Bruhn R, Chowdhury D, Qu L, Bialkowski W, Merenda S. D’Andrea P, McCalla AL, Anderson L, Keating SM, Stone M, Snyder EL, Brambilla D, Murphy EL, Norris PJ, Hilton JF, Spencer BR, Kleinman S, Carson JL. Therapeutic impact of red blood cell transfusion on anemic outpatients:  the RETRO study.  Transfusion 59: 1934-1943, 2019.
  • Karafin MS, Bruhn R, Roubinian NH, Chowdhury D, Qu L, Snyder E, Murphy EL, Brambilla D, Cable R, Hilton JF, St. Lezin E.  The impact of recipient factors on the lower than expected hemoglobin increment in transfused outpatients with hematologic diseases. Transfusion 2019 (in press). 
     
Awards
  • Sudikow Award for Quality Improvement, UCSF/Mt. Zion Medical Center 1998
  • Laboratory Medicine Faculty Teaching Award 2016
  • UCSF Center for Faculty Educators Certificate in Clinical Teaching 2018
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