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Lillian C. Chow

Lillian C. Chow

HS Associate Clinical Professor, Step 2, UC Irvine Medical Center

Biography

Lillian C. Chow, M.D., is HS Associate Clinical Professor, Step 2, at UC Irvine Medical Center. She received her Doctor of Medicine from UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2008 and completed her Internal Medicine residency, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine fellowship, and Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Her clinical and research focus centers on critical care medicine, sepsis, and pulmonary disease, with particular attention to underserved populations.

Dr. Chow served as Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at SUNY Downstate Medical Center from 2016 to 2022, where she worked with hospital leadership on disaster and surge planning during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed protocols for peripheral vasopressor administration and protocolized DKA treatment. Her research has examined inflammation and biomarkers in sepsis, COVID-19 outcomes in Afro-Caribbean populations, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She has served as co-principal investigator on studies investigating red blood cell S-nitrosylation in severe sepsis and ICU outcomes in COVID-19.

Dr. Chow has published peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter on animal models of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She has delivered invited lectures internationally, including presentations on cardiogenic shock and neurogenic shock at the INDUSEM World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine in Sri Lanka, and maintains an active role in medical education for internal medicine residents and pulmonary/critical care fellows.

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Education

  • MD, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2008
  • BS in Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - School of Engineering, 2004
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Areas of Expertise

  • Sepsis Biomarkers
  • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  • Mechanical Ventilation Management
  • COVID-19 Outcomes

Recent Publications

  • Grinceri J, Lee S, Murag S, Chow L, “Triple Threat: A Case of Coinfection with Disseminated Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Disseminated Shingles, and Pneumocystis Jirovecii in an HIV-Negative Patient”, Chest, vol. 166, no. 4, pp. A1448 - A1449, 2024. Presented at American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting.
  • Shin H, James A, Feng T, Chow L, Foronjy R, “Comparing the demographics and laboratory biomarkers of the COVID-19 Omicron wave and the Alpha wave in a predominantly Afro-Caribbean patient population in New York City”, Pneumonia (Nathan), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 8, 2022.
  • Garcia-Arcos I, Park S, Mai M, Alverez-Buve R, Chow L, Cai H, Baumlin-Schmid N, Agudelo CW, Martinez J, Kim MD, Dabo AJ, Salathe M, Goldberg I, Foronjy R, “LRP1 loss in airway epithelium exacerbates smoke-induced oxidative damage and airway remodeling”, J Lipid Res, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 100185, 2022.
  • Feng T, James A, Doumlele K, White S, Twardzik W, Zahid K, Sattar Z, Ukponmwan O, Nakeshbandi M, Chow L, Foronjy R, “Procalcitonin Levels in COVID-19 Patients are Strongly Associated with Mortality and ICU Acceptance in an Underserved, Inner City Population”, Medicina (Kaunas), vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 1070, 2021.
  • Chow L, Valesky W, “Subcutaneous rapid-acting insulin analogs for diabetic ketoacidosis”, Acad Emerg Med, vol. 28, pp. 700-702, 2021.
  • Borhanjoo P, Singh N, Nath S, Chowdhury MS, Swanson C, Kaiser R, Geraghty P, Foronjy R, Chow L, “Systemic inflammation and protease profile of Afro-Caribbean patients with sepsis”, SAGE Open Medicine, vol. 9, pp. 20503121211012521, 2021.
  • Damania D, Chow L, Betancourt B, Mahoney J, Haseeb MA, Jabbar A, Gupta R, Sidhu G, “Three metachronous primary lung cancers in a chronic smoker: A case report and review of the literature”, Medicine (Baltimore), vol. 99, no. 51, pp. e22559, 2020.
  • Boruk M, Railwah C, Lora A, Nath S, Wu D, Chow L, Borhanjoo P, Dabo AJ, Chowdhury S, Kaiser R, Foronjy R, Rosenfeld R, Geraghty P, “Elevated S100A9 expression in chronic rhinosinusitis coincides with elevated MMP production and proliferation in vitro”, Sci Rep, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 16350, 2020.
  • Valesky W, Chow L, “Prone Positioning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Adults”, Acad Emerg Med, vol. 27, pp. 520-522, 2020.
  • Reyes F, Singh N, Anjuman-Khurram N, Lee J, Chow L, “Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome causing fatal meningitis and septicemia by Citrobacter koseri”, IDCases, vol. 10, pp. 102-104, 2017.
  • Lillian Chow, David Smith, Khushboo Chokshi, Wendy Ezegbunam, Prangthip Charoenpong, Kimberly Foley, Adrian Cargill, Patrick Geraghty, “Animal Models of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” (opens in new tab), COPD - An Update in Pathogenesis and Clinical Management, IntechOpen, 2017.
  • Chow L, Gorga J, Zein J, “Development of New Pulmonary Infiltrates in a Patient Treated with Daptomycin” (opens in new tab), Chest, vol. 140, no. 4_MeetingAbstracts, pp. 157A, 2011. Presented at American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting.
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Contact Information

Email: chowl2@hs.uci.edu

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Last updated on 5/25/2026.