Dr. Freemer received her B.A.
at Williams College in 1990 before her M.D., internship, residency,
and chief residency at the University of Rochester, in New York.
She moved to San Francisco in 1999 where she completed her Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at UCSF. She joins the faculty
this year, being an active member of the Interstitial Lung Disease
Clinic. In addition, she is the Director of the UCSF Center of
Excellence in Interstitial Lung Disease, coordinating clinical
research activities at all UCSF sites.
Research Interests:
Dr. Freemer’s research interest is in Interstitial Lung Disease
(ILD). Within the Center of Excellence in ILD, she takes primary
responsibility for clinical and translational research in ILD
at UCSF including management of the ILD database.
As a clinical researcher, Dr. Freemer’s focus is on the association
of rheumatologic disease and ILD. Through close collaboration
with UCSF rheumatologists, she has begun working with two patient
cohorts, the UCSF Lupus Genetics Project and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Project. In the lupus cohort, she is studying the genetic risk
factors for pneumonia, the most common pulmonary manifestation
of the disease. In addition, in both the lupus and RA patients,
she is investigating the association of smoking and disease severity.
Furthermore, in these populations she will assess the importance
of gene-environment interactions, examining the interplay between
the environmental exposure to tobacco smoke and the genes that
regulate the metabolism of tobacco smoke.
Publications:
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. “Chest pain” in patients with
mediastinal emphysema. In: Hurst JW, Morris DC (eds): Chest Pain.
New York, Futura Publishing, Co., Inc., 2001, pp. 115-122.
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. “Chest pain” in patients with
pleuritis. In: JW Hurst and DC Morris (eds): Chest Pain. New York,
Futura Publishing, Co., Inc., 2001, pp. 125-134.
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. “Chest pain” in patients with
a pneumothorax. In: JW Hurst and DC Morris (eds): Chest Pain.
New York, Futura Publishing, Co., Inc., 2001, pp. 135-143.
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. The ACCESS Study: Characterization of
sarcoidosis in the U.S. (Editorial) Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care
Med 2001; 164: 1754-1755.
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. Evaluation and management of a patient
presenting with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. In: Heffner JE,
Sahn SA. (Eds), Internal Medicine Pearls II. Philadelphia: Hanley
& Belfus, Inc, 2002.
Freemer MM, King TE, Jr. Connective tissue disease. In: Schwartz
MI, King TE (Eds), Interstitial Lung Disease. Toronto: BC Decker,
2003.
