
Vinicio Alberto De Jesus Perez MD
Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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300 Pasteur DrPalo Alto, CA 94304
Phone+1 650-723-4000
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Education & Training
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2004 - 2006
- Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2000 - 2003
- University of Puerto Rico School of MedicineClass of 2000
- University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras CampusB.S., Biology, 1992 - 1996
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 2004 - 2026
- American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Early Career award ATS Pulmonary Circulation Assembly, 2016
- Young Physician Scientist Award American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2016
- Dorothy Dee and Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award 2016
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 3 citationsAdventitial fibroblasts direct smooth muscle cell-state transition in pulmonary vascular disease.Slaven Crnkovic, Helene Thekkekara Puthenparampil, Shirin Mulch, Valentina Biasin, Nemanja Radic
Elife. 2025-04-10 - Importance of age at diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in children living at high altitude: Longitudinal follow-up of 86 patients.Gabriel F Diaz, Carlos E Diaz-Castrillon, Alicia Marquez Garcia, Rachel K Hopper, Vinicio de J Perez
Pulmonary Circulation. 2025-04-01 - Specialized pericyte subtypes in the pulmonary capillaries.Timothy Klouda, Yunhye Kim, Seung-Han Baek, Mantu Bhaumik, Yan Li
The EMBO Journal. 2025-02-01
Journal Articles
- Molecular pathogenesis and current pathology of pulmonary hypertensionVA de Jesus Perez, Heart Fail Rev, 1/22/2015
- Assessment of pulmonary arterial wall anatomy in humans and pig (sus scrofa) using optical coherence tomographyNW Brunner, RT Zamanian, F Ikeno, Y Mitsutake, AJ Connolly, E Shuffle, K Yuan, M Orcholski, J Lyons and VA de Jesus Perez, Comparative Medicine, 1/1/2015
- Loss-of BMPR2 is associated with abnormal DNA repair in pulmonary arterial hypertensionM Li, S Vattulainen, J Aho, M Orcholski, V Rojas, K Yuan, VA de Jesus Perez, M Helenius, P Taimen, S Myllykangas, J Koskenvuo, TP Alastalo, Am J Resp Mol Cell Biol, 1/1/2014
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Abstracts/Posters
- Whole exome sequencing leads to discovery of novel gene variants in PAHVA de Jesus Perez, AHA Scientific Sessions, 1/1/2012
- Recruitment of Disheveled by Integrin Linked Kinase 1 Regulates Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 Induced Pulmonary Smooth Muscle Cell MotilityVA de Jesus Perez, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, 1/1/2009
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 promotes pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell motility via cross-talk with both Wnt/b-catenin and Wnt/RhoA-Rac1 pathwaysVinicio A. de Jesus Perez and Marlene Rabinovitch, American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, 1/1/2007
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Lectures
- Wall Center Video Series “What you need to know about the Pathology of PAH”1/1/2015
- Whole exome sequencing for the discovery of novel genetic modifiers in PAH Genomic Predisposition and Therapeutic Avenues in Pulmonary Hypertension1/1/2015
- BMPR2 and Wnt signaling BMPR2 and Pulmonary Hypertension at the Crossroads1/1/2015
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Grant Support
- Stanford Undergraduate URM Summer Cardiovascular Research ProgramSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2019–2029
- The Role of the CES1 in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial HypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2024–2028
- The Role of the CES1 in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial HypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2024–2028
- The Role of the CES1 in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial HypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2024–2028
- Endothelial-pericyte interactions in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- Endothelial-pericyte interactions in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- Endothelial-pericyte interactions in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
- The Wnt7a/ROR2 axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertensionSTANFORD UNIVERSITY2017–2026
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