Faculty Bio Detail

Brendan Carolan

Brendan J. Carolan, MD, MRCPI

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Medicine
  • Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Profile

Research Areas

  • Asthma
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Gender:
Male

Education & Training

Education

University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin

Residency

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York

Fellowship

Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York

Special Interests

Clinical and Research Interests

Effects of smoking on airway gene expression in healthy smokers and individuals with established chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Biomarker proteomics and phenotyping in COPD. The effects of obesity on asthma control and factors that mediate steroid resistance in asthma.

Board Certification

Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
2012: Critical Care Medicine
2011: Pulmonary Diseases
2010: Internal Medicine

Affiliations with the University of Colorado Denver

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver

Publications

Clinical phenotypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma: Recent advances. Carolan BJ, Sutherland ER. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Mar;131(3):627-34.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: a concise review. Balkissoon R, Lommatzsch S, Carolan B, Make B. Med Clin North Am. 2011 Nov;95(6):1125-41

Disparate oxidant gene expression of airway epithelium compared to alveolar macrophages in smokers. Carolan BJ, Harvey B-G, Hackett N, O’Connor TP, Crystal RG. Respir Res. 2009 Nov 17;10:111.

Cigarette smoking induces overexpression of a fat depleting gene AZGP1 in the human airway epithelium. Vanni H, Kazeros A, Wang R, Harvey BG, Ferris B, De BP, Carolan BJ, Hubner RH, O’Connor TP, Crystal RG. Chest. 2009 May;135(5):1197-208..

Overexpresssion of the apoptotic cell removal receptor MERTK in alveolar macrophages of cigarette smokers. Kazeros A, Harvey BG, Carolan BJ, Vanni H, Krause A, Crystal RG. Am J Resp Cell Mol Biol. 2008 Dec;39(6):747-57

Office Information

Doctor's Contact Information

  • Office: 303.398.1355
  • Fax: 303.270.2194

Locations

  • Main Campus
    1400 Jackson St.
    Denver, CO 80206
    Main: 877.225.5654