Seth Rivera, M.D.
Clinical Instructor of Medicine

Address:
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Room 37-131 Center for Health Sciences
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1690

Lab Office Address:

Room 52-233 Center for Health Sciences

Phone:
Lung Center Messages: 310-206-7858
Prescription Refills: 310-206-0863
Patient Appointments: 310-825-8061
Academic Office: 310-825-5316
Emergency: 310-825-6301 (UCLA page operator)
FAX: 310-206-8622

Email:

sethrivera@mednet.ucla.edu


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Education and Training:

Education:
M.D.: University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
B.S.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Postdoctoral Training:
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship: Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Internal Medicine Residency: Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA


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Areas of Interest:

  • Anemia of Inflammation
  • Iron Metabolism
  • Trace Metals in Inflammation
  • Malignant Pleural Effusions
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases

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Representative Publications:

Rivera S, Briggs B, Qian D. Levels of HIV RNA Are Quantitatively Related to Prior Weight Loss in HIV Related Wasting. J AIDS 1998; 17: 411-418.

Rivera S, Sattler FR, Boyd H, et al. Urinary Cytokines for Assessing Inflammation in HIV-Associated Wasting. Cytokine 2001; 13: 305-313.

Rivera S, Kim D, Garone S, Morgenstern L, Mohsenifar Z. Motivating Factors in Futile Clinical Interventions. Chest 2001; 119: 1944-1947.

Nemeth E*, Rivera S*, Gabayan V, Keller C, Taudorf S, Pedersen B, Ganz T. Interleukin-6 mediates hypoferremia of inflammation by inducing the synthesis of the iron-regulatory protein hepcidin. JCI 2004. *Drs.
Nemeth and Rivera contributed equally.

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