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Immunology

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74
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39465
World Ranking
2019
National Ranking
988

Medicine

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76
Citations
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National Ranking
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Overview

Brian J. McMahon is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a pronounced emphasis on epidemiology and hepatology, complemented by work in surgery, infectious diseases, and emergency medicine. The scientist's scholarly output includes 101 publications in medicine, with 42 specifically in epidemiology and 33 in hepatology.

Their research covers several core topics, including:

  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Ultrasound in Clinical Applications

Brian J. McMahon has contributed to multiple papers with notable examples published between 2020 and 2023. These include:

  • "Racial/ethnic disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence and mortality rates in the United States, 1992-2018" (2022, Hepatology)
  • "WGO Guidance for the Care of Patients With COVID-19 and Liver Disease" (2020, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology)
  • "HBV Genotype: A Significant Risk Factor in Determining Which Patients With Chronic HBV Infection Should Undergo Surveillance for HCC: The Hepatitis B Alaska Study" (2021, Hepatology)
  • "Protection and antibody levels 35 years after primary series with hepatitis B vaccine and response to a booster dose" (2022, Hepatology)
  • "Opportunities to address gaps in early detection and improve outcomes of liver cancer" (2023, JNCI Cancer Spectrum)

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Chriss Homan, Janet M. Johnston, Dana Bruden, Michael G. Bruce, and Lisa Townshend-Bulson. Collaboration has often occurred with these colleagues across numerous publications.

Brian J. McMahon regularly publishes work in journals such as Hepatology, Journal of Viral Hepatitis, SSRN Electronic Journal, Gastroenterology, and Hepatology Communications. The highest number of contributions appear in Hepatology with five publications.

Best Publications

  • Chronic hepatitis B

    Anna Suk-Fong Lok;Brian J. McMahon

  • Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance

    Norah A. Terrault;Anna S.F. Lok;Brian J. McMahon;Kyong Mi Chang

  • Chronic hepatitis B: Update 2009

    Anna S. F. Lok;Brian J. McMahon

  • The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Daniel Dicker;Daniel Dicker;Amanda Pain;Hannah Hamavid

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2016 a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study global burden of disease cancer collaboration

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • The natural history of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

    Brian J. McMahon

  • Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Relation of Age to the Clinical Expression of Disease and Subsequent Development of the Carrier State

    Brian J. McMahon;Wallace L. M. Alward;David B. Hall;William L. Heyward

  • Chronic hepatitis B: update of recommendations.

    Anna S.F. Lok;Brian J. McMahon

  • Epidemiology and natural history of hepatitis B.

    Brian J. McMahon

  • Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B viral infection in adults: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

    Anna S.F. Lok;Brian J. McMahon;Robert S. Brown;John B. Wong

  • Serologic and clinical outcomes of 1536 Alaska Natives chronically infected with hepatitis B virus.

    Brian J. McMahon;Peter Holck;Lisa Bulkow;Mary Snowball

  • Accelerating the elimination of viral hepatitis: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission

    Graham S Cooke;Isabelle Andrieux-Meyer;Tanya L Applegate;Rifat Atun

  • Negative Immune Regulator Tim-3 Is Overexpressed on T Cells in Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Its Blockade Rescues Dysfunctional CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells

    Lucy Golden-Mason;Brent E. Palmer;Nasim Kassam;Lisa Townshend-Bulson

  • Antibody levels and protection after hepatitis B vaccination: results of a 15-year follow-up

    Brian J McMahon;Dana L Bruden;Kenneth M Petersen;Lisa R Bulkow

  • Tim-3 expression on PD-1+ HCV-specific human CTLs is associated with viral persistence, and its blockade restores hepatocyte-directed in vitro cytotoxicity

    Rachel H. McMahan;Lucy Golden-Mason;Michael I. Nishimura;Brian J. McMahon

  • Hepatitis B-related sequelae: prospective study in 1400 hepatitis B surface antigen-positive Alaska native carriers.

    Brian J. McMahon;Steven R. Alberts;Robert B. Wainwright;Lisa Bulkow

  • Chronic hepatitis B

    Unknown

  • Antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis B viral infection during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Robert S. Brown;Brian J. McMahon;Anna S.F. Lok;John B. Wong

  • Present and future therapies of hepatitis B: From discovery to cure

    T. Jake Liang;Timothy M. Block;Brian J. McMahon;Marc G. Ghany

  • Clearance of hepatitis B surface antigen and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a cohort chronically infected with hepatitis B virus

    Josephine Simonetti;Lisa Bulkow;Brian J. McMahon;Brian J. McMahon;Chriss Homan

  • Safety and immunogenicity of hepatitis A vaccine in patients with chronic liver disease

    Emmet B. Keeffe;Sten Iwarson;Brian J. McMahon;Karen L. Lindsay

  • Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Impact of Vaccination on Disease

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa R. Bulkow
Lisa R. Bulkow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas W. Hennessy
Thomas W. Hennessy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alan J. Parkinson
Alan J. Parkinson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David R. Gretch
David R. Gretch University of Washington
Juan Sanabria
Juan Sanabria Marshall University
Bach Xuan Tran
Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Shafiu Mohammed
Shafiu Mohammed Ahmadu Bello University
Gholamreza Roshandel
Gholamreza Roshandel Golestan University

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