Eric C. Kleerup, M.D., FCCP
Associate Professor of Medicine

Address:
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
37-131 Center for Health Sciences
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1690

Phone:
Lung Center Messages: 310-206-7858
Prescription Refills: 310-206-0863
Appointments: 310-825-8061
Academic Office: 310-794-6593
Emergency: 310-825-6301 (UCLA page operator)
FAX: 310-206-8622

Email:

ekleerup@mednet.ucla.edu

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Education and Training:



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Areas of Interest

  • Asthma
  • Cough
  • Chemotherapy & PSCT induced lung disease
  • COPD
  • Diffusion impairment
  • Cocaine and marijuana effects on the lung
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Representative Publications:

E Gil, B Chen, E Kleerup, M Webber, DP Tashkin, Acute and Chronic Effects of Marijuana Smoking on Pulmonary Alveolar Permeability. Life Sciences, Vol. 56, Nos. 23/24, p. .2193-2199, April 28, 1995.

Eric C. Kleerup and Donald P. Tashkin, Outpatient Treatment of Adult Asthma.Western Journal of Medicine, Vol. 163, no. 1, p. 49-63, July 1995.

EC Kleerup, DP Tashkin, AP Cline, BP Ekholm,Cumulative Dose-Response Study of Non-CFC Propellant HFA-134a Salbutamol Sulfate MDI in Patients with Asthma.Chest , Vol. 109, no. 3, p. 702-707, March, 1996.

Donald P. Tashkin, Eric C. Kleerup, Shankar Koyal, Jose Marques and Michael Goldman Acute Effects of Inhaled and Intravenous Cocaine on Airway Dynamics. Chest , Vol. 110, no. 4, p. 904-910, October, 1996.

Eric C. Kleerup, Maylene Wong, Jose Marques-Magallanes, Michael Goldman and Donald P. Tashkin, Acute Effects of Intravenous Cocaine on Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Cardiac Index in Habitual Crack Smokers, Chest, Vol. 111, no. 1, p. 30-35, January, 1997.

Donald P. Tashkin, Eric C. Kleerup, Carl K. Hoh, Milo M. Webber, Kwan Kim and Enrique Gil, Effects of "crack" cocaine on pulmonary alveolar permeability.Chest , Vol. 112, no. 2, p.327-335, August, 1997.

Michael D. Roth, Ashim Arora, Sanford H. Barsky, Eric Kleerup, Michael Simmons, and Donald P. Tashkin, Airway inflammation in young marijuana and tobacco smokers. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 157 (3):928-937, 1998.

Johnathan G. Goldin, M. F. McNitt-Gray, S. M. Sorenson, T.D. Johnson, Beth Dauphinee, Eric C. Kleerup, Donald P. Tashkin, Denise R. Aberle. Airway hyperreactivity: assessment with helical thin-section CT. Radiology , 208:321-329, 1998.

Simmons MS, Nides MA, Kleerup EC, Chapman KR, Milgrom H, Rand CS, Spector SL, and Tashkin DP, Validation of the Doser, a new device for monitoring metered-dose inhaler use. J Allergy and Clin Immunol, 102:409-13. 1998.

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