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Overview

James L. Madara is affiliated with the American Medical Association in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and general health professions. Their research also covers public health, environmental and occupational health, and health information management.

Their recent scholarly output includes notable papers such as "Clinicians and Professional Societies COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs" (2021, NAM Perspectives), "Transforming Health Care - Shared Commitments for a Learning Health System" (2025, New England Journal of Medicine), "JAMA Neurology" (2020, JAMA Neurology), "JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery" (2020, JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery), and another article titled "JAMA Neurology" (2020, JAMA Neurology).

Key research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Tracheal and airway disorders
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Healthcare Quality and Management
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Frequent collaborators in their research include New York, Howard Bauchner, Hooman Kamel, Bernard Chang, and Dena B. Dubal.

The main venues where their work has been published are:

  • JAMA Neurology
  • JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
  • NAM Perspectives
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • Cutting Edge: Bacterial Flagellin Activates Basolaterally Expressed TLR5 to Induce Epithelial Proinflammatory Gene Expression

    Andrew T. Gewirtz;Tony A. Navas;Sean Lyons;Paul J. Godowski

  • Prokaryotic Regulation of Epithelial Responses by Inhibition of IκB-α Ubiquitination

    Andrew S. Neish;Andrew T. Gewirtz;Hui Zeng;Andrew N. Young

  • Proinflammatory Cytokines Disrupt Epithelial Barrier Function by Apoptosis-Independent Mechanisms

    Matthias Bruewer;Andreas Luegering;Andreas Luegering;Torsten Kucharzik;Torsten Kucharzik;Charles A. Parkos

  • Interferon-gamma directly affects barrier function of cultured intestinal epithelial monolayers.

    J L Madara;J Stafford

  • REGULATION OF THE MOVEMENT OF SOLUTES ACROSS TIGHT JUNCTIONS

    James L. Madara

  • Molecular physiology and pathophysiology of tight junctions. IV. Regulation of tight junctions by extracellular stimuli: nutrients, cytokines, and immune cells.

    A. Nusrat;J. R. Turner;J. L. Madara

  • Structural basis for physiological regulation of paracellular pathways in intestinal epithelia.

    J. L. Madara;J. L. Madara;J. R. Pappenheimer;J. R. Pappenheimer

  • Physiological regulation of epithelial tight junctions is associated with myosin light-chain phosphorylation.

    Jerrold R. Turner;Jerrold R. Turner;Brian K. Rill;Susan L. Carlson;Denise Carnes

  • Effects of cytochalasin D on occluding junctions of intestinal absorptive cells: further evidence that the cytoskeleton may influence paracellular permeability and junctional charge selectivity.

    James L. Madara;David Barenberg;Susan Carlson

  • Salmonella typhimurium attachment to human intestinal epithelial monolayers: transcellular signalling to subepithelial neutrophils.

    Beth A. McCormick;Sean P. Colgan;Charlene Delp-Archer;Samuel I. Miller

  • Tight junctions are membrane microdomains

    A. Nusrat;C.A. Parkos;P. Verkade;C.S. Foley

  • Intraepithelial eosinophils: a new diagnostic criterion for reflux esophagitis.

    Harland S. Winter;James L. Madara;Richard J. Stafford;Richard J. Grand

  • Salmonella typhimurium translocates flagellin across intestinal epithelia, inducing a proinflammatory response

    Andrew T. Gewirtz;Peter O. Simon;Clare K. Schmitt;Laura J. Taylor

  • Occluding junction structure-function relationships in a cultured epithelial monolayer.

    J L Madara;K Dharmsathaphorn

  • Rho protein regulates tight junctions and perijunctional actin organization in polarized epithelia.

    A Nusrat;M Giry;J R Turner;S P Colgan

  • Clostridium difficile toxin A perturbs cytoskeletal structure and tight junction permeability of cultured human intestinal epithelial monolayers.

    G Hecht;C Pothoulakis;J T LaMont;J L Madara

  • Design of lipoxin A4 stable analogs that block transmigration and adhesion of human neutrophils.

    Charles N. Serhan;Jane F. Maddox;Nicos A. Petasis;Irini Akritopoulou-Zanze

  • Integrin alpha E beta 7 mediates adhesion of T lymphocytes to epithelial cells.

    K L Cepek;C M Parker;J L Madara;M B Brenner

  • Loosening tight junctions. Lessons from the intestine.

    J L Madara

  • 5'-adenosine monophosphate is the neutrophil-derived paracrine factor that elicits chloride secretion from T84 intestinal epithelial cell monolayers.

    James L. Madara;Thomas W. Patapoff;Beth Gillece-Castro;Sean P. Colgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P. Colgan
Sean P. Colgan University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Andrew T. Gewirtz
Andrew T. Gewirtz Georgia State University
Asma Nusrat
Asma Nusrat University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Didier Merlin
Didier Merlin Georgia State University
Andrew S. Neish
Andrew S. Neish Emory University
Jerrold R. Turner
Jerrold R. Turner Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jerry S. Trier
Jerry S. Trier Brigham and Women's Hospital
Beth A. McCormick
Beth A. McCormick University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Shanthi V. Sitaraman
Shanthi V. Sitaraman Emory University
Wayne I. Lencer
Wayne I. Lencer Harvard University

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