Alyssa Perez, MD

Education
Advanced Fellowship, 06/2020 - Lung Transplantation and Advanced Lung Disease, University of California San Francisco
Fellowship, 06/2020 - Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California San Francisco
EdM, 05/2017 - Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Residency, 06/2016 - Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
MD, 05/2013 - Medicine, Jefferson Medical College
Honors and Awards
  • The Jeffrey Golden Outstanding Clinical Fellow Award, UCSF, 2020
  • Henry Christian Award, AFMR, 2019
Publications

  1. Perez AA, Leard LE. A closer examination of the ethical principles when considering active smokers as candidates for lung transplant. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2025. PMID: 40545005


  2. Calabrese DR, Yellamilli S, Ekstrand C, Singer JP, Hays SR, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Venado A, Kolaitis NA, Perez A, Combes A, Greenland JR. Macrophage and CD8 T Cell Discordance are Associated with Acute Lung Allograft Dysfunction Progression. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2024. PMID: 38367738


  3. Odisho AY, Liu AW, Maiorano AR, Bigazzi MOA, Medina E, Leard LE, Shah R, Venado A, Perez A, Golden J, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Maheshwari J, Trinh BN, Kukreja J, Greenland J, Calabrese D, Neinstein AB, Singer JP, Hays SR. Design and implementation of a digital health home spirometry intervention for remote monitoring of lung transplant function. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2023. PMID: 37031033


  4. Perez AA, Shah RJ. Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Patient. Clinics in chest medicine 2022. PMID: 36116814


  5. Perez AA, Leard LE. What's in a name: The importance of lung transplant at Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Accredited Care Centers for patients with Cystic Fibrosis. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34973873


  6. Perez A. The Other Side. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34665200


  7. Perez AA, Hays SR, Soong A, Gao Y, Greenland JR, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Golden J, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kleinhenz ME, Singer JP. Improvements in frailty contribute to substantial improvements in quality of life after lung transplantation in patients with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric pulmonology 2020. PMID: 32237273


  8. Perez AA, Singer JP, Schwartz BS, Chin-Hong P, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Gao Y, Venado A, Leard LE, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Greenland JR, Hays SR. Management and clinical outcomes after lung transplantation in patients with pre-transplant Mycobacterium abscessus infection: a single center experience. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30924986


  9. Perez AA, Pelletier SR, Klein IA, Shields HM. Patient as Co-Teacher on Rounds: a Pilot Study. Volume 33 of Issue 7. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29633127