Education

Undergraduate:
B.A.
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts

Medical:
M.D.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Residency:
Internal Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennesse

Fellowship:
Pulmonary and Critical Care 
Louisiana State University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana 

Affiliated Hospitals & Clinics

• University Medical Center
• East Jefferson General Hospital
• West Jefferson Medical Center

Publications

1. Zifodya JS, Ferguson TF, Siggins RW, Brashear MM, Kantrow SP, Nelson S, Shellito JE, Molina PE, Welsh DA. Cross sectional analysis of the effect of alcohol on pulmonary function in a cohort of men and women living with HIV. Alcohol. 2022 Mar 16;101:45-51. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2022.03.001. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35306109; NIHMSID:NIHMS1790138..

2. Rosen EM, Primeaux SD, Simon L, Welsh DA, Molina PE, Ferguson TF. Associations of Binge Drinking and Heavy Alcohol Use on Sugar and Fat Intake in a Cohort of Southern People Living with HIV. Alcohol Alcohol. 2022 Mar 12;57(2):226-233. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agab066. PubMed PMID: 34611697; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8919410..

3. Gu M, Samuelson DR, de la Rua NM, Charles TP, Taylor CM, Luo M, Siggins RW, Shellito JE, Welsh DA. Host innate and adaptive immunity shapes the gut microbiota biogeography. Microbiol Immunol. 2022 Jan 24;. doi: 10.1111/1348-0421.12963. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35067963; NIHMSID:NIHMS1773928..

4.  Obanda DN, Keenan MJ, Page R, Raggio AM, Taylor CM, Marx BD, Stout RW, Guice J, Luo M, Welsh DA, Coulon D, Husseneder C. Gut Microbiota Composition and Predicted Microbial Metabolic Pathways of Obesity Prone and Obesity Resistant Outbred Sprague-Dawley CD Rats May Account for Differences in Their Phenotype. Front Nutr. 2021;8:746515. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.746515. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34950687; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8691123..

5. Samuelson DR, Gu M, Shellito JE, Molina PE, Taylor CM, Luo M, Welsh DA. Pulmonary immune cell trafficking promotes host defense against alcohol-associated Klebsiella pneumonia. Commun Biol. 2021 Aug 23;4(1):997. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02524-0. PubMed PMID: 34426641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8382828.

6. Kim S, Fuselier J, Welsh DA, Cherry KE, Myers L, Jazwinski SM. Feature Selection Algorithms Enhance the Accuracy of Frailty Indexes as Measures of Biological Age. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2021 Jul 13;76(8):1347-1355. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glab018. PubMed PMID: 33471059; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8277082.

7. Hahn JA, Murnane PM, Vittinghoff E, Muyindike WR, Emenyonu NI, Fatch R, Chamie G, Haberer JE, Francis JM, Kapiga S, Jacobson K, Myers B, Couture MC, DiClemente RJ, Brown JL, So-Armah K, Sulkowski M, Marcus GM, Woolf-King S, Cook RL, Richards VL, Molina P, Ferguson T, Welsh D, Piano MR, Phillips SA, Stewart S, Afshar M, Page K, McGinnis K, Fiellin DA, Justice AC, Bryant K, Saitz R. Factors associated with phosphatidylethanol (PEth) sensitivity for detecting unhealthy alcohol use: An individual patient data meta-analysis. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 Jun;45(6):1166-1187. doi: 10.1111/acer.14611. Epub 2021 May 7. PubMed PMID: 33837975; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8254773.

8. Gu M, Samuelson DR, Taylor CM, Molina PE, Luo M, Siggins RW, Shellito JE, Welsh DA. Alcohol-associated intestinal dysbiosis alters mucosal-associated invariant T-cell phenotype and function. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 May;45(5):934-947. doi: 10.1111/acer.14589. Epub 2021 Apr 3. PubMed PMID: 33704802; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8283808.

9. McTernan PM, Katz PS, Porretta C, Welsh DA, Siggins RW. A Novel FACS-Based Workflow for Simultaneous Assessment of RedOx Status, Cellular Phenotype, and Mitochondrial Genome Stability. BioChem. 2021 April; 1(1):1-18.

10. Maffei VJ, Siggins RW, Luo M, Brashear MM, Mercante DE, Taylor CM, Molina P, Welsh DA. Alcohol Use Is Associated With Intestinal Dysbiosis and Dysfunctional CD8+ T-Cell Phenotypes in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus. J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 29;223(6):1029-1039. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa461. PubMed PMID: 32725203; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8006423.

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