Faculty
Mark H. Wener, M.D.
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Director, Immunology Division
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
OFFICE ADDRESS
University of Washington
1959 NE Pacific Street
Box 357110
Seattle, WA 98195-7110
Telephone: (206) 598-6131
FAX (206) 598-6189
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
M.D., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1974
Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa 1974-78
Fellowship in Rheumatology, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, 1978-80
Fellowship in Rheumatology and Immunology Research, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1980-81
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Performance of immunoassays
Antibodies to Clq in lupus
Laboratory computerized tutors
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Baeten JM, Richardson BA, Bankson DD, Wener MH, Kreiss JK, Lavreys L, Mandaliya K, Bwayo JJ, McClelland RS. Use of serum retinol-binding protein for prediction of vitamin A deficiency: effects of HIV-1 infection, protein malnutrition, and the acute phase response. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 ;79:218-25.
Peterson, JF, Hsu FC, Simkin PA, Wener MH. Effect of TNF-a Antagonists on Serum Transaminases and Viremia in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Chronic Hepatitis C Infection. Ann Rheum Dis 2003; 62:1078-1082
Yuan S, Bien C, Wener MH, Simkin P, Rainey PM, Astion ML. Repeat examination of synovial fluid for crystals: is it useful? Clin Chem. 2003 ;49:1562-3
Peterson JR, Hsu FC, Simkin PA, Wener MH. Effect of tumour necrosis factor alpha antagonists on serum transaminases and viraemia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and chronic hepatitis C infection. Ann Rheum Dis. 62:1078-82, 2003
Yuan S, Bien C, Wener MH, Simkin P, Rainey PM, Astion ML. Repeat examination of synovial fluid for crystals: is it useful? Clin Chem. 49:1562-3, 2003
Mannik M, Merrill CE, Stamps LD, Wener MH. Multiple autoantibodies form the glomerular immune deposits in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 30;1495-504, 2003
Jawaheer D, Seldin MF, Amos CI, Chen WV, Shigeta R, Etzel C, Damle A, Xiao X, Chen D, Lum RF, Monteiro J, Kern M, Criswell LA, Albani S, Nelson JL, Clegg DO, Pope R, Schroeder HW, Bridges SL, Pisetsky DS, Ward R, Kastner D, Wilder RL, Pincus T, Callahan LF, Flemming D, Wener MH, Gregersen PK for NARAC. Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: a replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families. Arthritis Rheum 48;906-16, 2003
Buchwald D, Wener MH, Pearlman T, Kith P. Markers of inflammation and immune activation in chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. J Rheumatol 24;372-6, 1997
Mannik M, Wener MH. Deposition of antibodies to the collagen-like region of C1q in renal glomeruli of patients with proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis. Arthritis-Rheum 40;1504-11, 1997
Gentile TC, Wener MH, Starkebaum G, Loughran TP Jr. Humoral immune abnormalities in T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia. Leuk-Lymphoma 23;365-70, 1996
Wener MH, Johnson RJ, Sasso EH, Gretch DR. Hepatitis C virus and rheumatic disease (editorial). J Rheumatol 23;953-9,1996