Thomas Drake, M.D.

Work Email Address:
tdrake@mednet.ucla.edu

Work Address:
Office
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Work Phone Number:
310-825-6975

Department / Division Affiliations:

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry

Associate Director, Clinical Laboratory

Member, ACCESS Program: Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Pathology

ACCESS Affinity Group:

ACCESS Affinity - Molecular Basis of Disease

Bio:

Dr. Drake received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, and completed residency and fellowship/research training in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCSF in 1984. He has been at UCLA since then in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and is currently Professor and Vice-chair. Outside of his research activities, he is Co-chair of the "Foundations of Medicine I" course for 1st year students in the School of Medicine, and oversees outpatient laboratory services and information services for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Publications:

Drake TA Schadt EE Lusis AJ Integrating genetic and gene expression data: application to cardiovascular and metabolic traits in mice. Mammalian Genome. 2006; 17(6): 466-79.

Ghazalpour, A Doss, S Sheth, SS Ingram-Drake, LA Schadt, EE Lusis, AJ Drake, TA Genomic analysis of metabolic pathway gene expression in mice.. Genome biology . 2005; 6(7): R59.

Schadt, EE Lamb, J Yang, X Zhu, J Edwards, S Guhathakurta, D Sieberts, SK Monks, S Reitman, M Zhang, C Lum, PY Leonardson, A Thieringer, R Metzger, JM Yang, L Castle, J Zhu, H Kash, SF Drake, TA Sachs, A Lusis, AJ An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease.. Nature genetics. . 2005; 37(7): 710-7.

Doss, S Schadt, EE Drake, TA Lusis, AJ Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice.. Genome research. . 2005; 15(5): 681-91.

Ghazalpour, A Doss, S Yang, X Aten, J Toomey, EM Van Nas, A Wang, S Drake, TA Lusis, AJ Thematic review series: The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Toward a biological network for atherosclerosis.. Journal of lipid research. . 2004; 45(10): 1793-805.

Schadt, EE Monks, SA Drake, TA Lusis, AJ Che, N Colinayo, V Ruff, TG Milligan, SB Lamb, JR Cavet, G Linsley, PS Mao, M Stoughton, RB Friend, SH Genetics of gene expression surveyed in maize, mouse and man.. Nature. . 2003; 422(6929): 297-302.