david r. park, MD

Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Contact Information
Harborview Medical Center
Campus Box 359762
325 - 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
Clinician-Educator Web Page
drp@u.washington.edu
Academic Office: (206) 744-3356
Fax: (206) 744-8584
Clinic Appointments: (206) 744-3123
Education and Training
B.A. in Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1983
M.D., University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, 1988
Internship in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1989
Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1991
Chief Medical Resident, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 1992
Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1999
Teaching Scholars Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2003-2004.
ACLS Certification, 2012
Research Interests
My primary research interests are in lung infection, lung host defenses, and clinical training in pulmonary and critical care medicine.
Representative Publications
Park DR and SJ Skerrett. IL-10 enhances the growth of Legionella pneumophila in human mononuclear phagocytes and reverses the protective effect of IFN-g: Differential responses of blood monocytes and alveolar macrophages. J Immunol 1996; 157:2528-2538.
Park DR and SJ Skerrett. Cytokines in Legionella pneumophila infection. In Nelson S and Martin TR (eds.) Cytokines in pulmonary infectious diseases: pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies. NIH Lung Biology in Health and Disease Series. Volume 141. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000.
Park DR and SJ Skerrett. The usefulness of the Gram stain in the diagnosis of pneumonia. Clin Pulm Med 1995; 2:201-212.
Park DR and DJ Pierson. Disorders of the mediastinum: general principles and diagnostic approach, pneumomediastinum and mediastinitis, and tumors and cysts of the mediastinum. In Murray JF, JA Nadel, RJ Mason, and HA Boushey, Jr. (eds.) Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 4th Edition. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2000.
Curtis JR, Park DR, Krone MR, and Pearlman RA. Use of the medical futility rationale in Do-Not-Attempt-Resuscitation orders. JAMA 1995; 273:124-128.
Park DR, VL Sherbin, MS Goodman, AD Pacifico, GD Rubenfeld, NL Polissar, RK Root. The etiology of community-acquired pneumonia at an urban public hospital: influence of HIV infection and initial severity of illness. J Infect Dis 2001; 184:268-277.