Katrina Steiling, MD, MSc

Faculty and Fellows

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Internship: Boston University Medical Center
Residency: Boston University Medical Center
Fellowship: Boston University Medical Center
Master’s/PhD programs: Masters of Science in Bioinformatics, College of Engineering, Boston University

Board Certifications:

Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
Critical Care Medicine

Special Interests:

Research:

Airway gene expression
Bioinformatics
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Lung Cancer

Clinical:

Thoracic Oncology
Pulmonary Medicine
Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Steiling is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. She sees patients in the multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic and attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Steiling’s research focuses on applying high-throughput genomic tools and emerging computational methods to develop improved diagnostics, prognostics, and risk stratification tools for phenotypically complex lung diseases such as COPD and lung cancer. Dr. Steiling’s primary research involves gene expression profiling of the airway epithelium from individuals with COPD in order to understand the molecular mechanisms of this disease and its relationship to lung cancer. She has also worked to apply airway gene expression profiling to the diagnosis of lung cancer, to understand the relationship between smoking-induced changes in gene expression in the bronchial airway and the upper airway, and to elucidate the relationship between smoking-induced changes in airway gene and protein expression.

Selected Publications:

Gower AC, Steiling K, Brothers JF, Lenburg ME, Spira A. “Transcriptomic
studies of the airway ‘field of injury’ associated with smoking-related lung
disease.” Proc Am Thorac Soc, 2011; 8(2):173-179.
Brody JS, Steiling K. “Interaction of cigarette exposure and airway epithelial
cell gene expression” Annu Rev Physiol. 2011; 73:437-456.
Spira A, Steiling K. Topics in genetics and genomics: Gene Expression.
In: UpToDate, Basow DS (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA, 2010.
Steiling K, Lenberg ME, Spira A. “Airway Gene Expression in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.” Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2009;6:697-700.
Steiling K, Kadar AY, Bergerate A, Flanigon J, Sridhar S, Shah V, Ahmad QR, Brody JS, Lenburg ME, Steffen M, Spira A. “Comparison of proteomic and transcriptomic profiles in the bronchial airway epithelium of current and never smokers.” PLoS ONE. 2009;4(4):e5043.
Steiling K, Ryan J, Brody JS*, Spira A*. “The field of tissue injury in the lung and airway.” Cancer Prevention Research, 2008; 1(6):396-403. *contributed equally as senior author
Schembri F*, Sridhar S*, Zeskind J, Shah V, Gustafson A, Steiling K, Liu G, Dumas YM, Zhang X, Brody JS, Lenburg ME, Spira A. “Smoking-induced gene expression changes in the bronchial airway are reflected in nasal and buccal epithelium.” BMC Genomics, 2008; 9:259. * contributed equally
Beane J, Sebastiani P, Whitfield TH, Steiling K, Dumas YM, Lenburg ME, Spira A. “A prediction model for lung cancer diagnosis that integrates genomic and clinical features.” Cancer Prevention Research, 2008; 1:56-64.
Spira A, Beane JE, Shah V, Steiling K, Liu G, Schembri F, Gilman S, Dumas YM, Calner P, Sebastiani P, Sridhar S, Beamis J, Lamb C, Anderson T, Gerry N, Keane J, Lenburg ME, Brody JS. “Airway epithelial gene expression in the diagnostic evaluation of smokers with suspect lung cancer.” Nature Medicine, 2007; 13(3):361-6.

Clinic Sites:

Dr. Steiling sees patients in the Thoracic Oncology Center at Boston Medical Center.