8861-Fulkerson, Zachary

Zachary Fulkerson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

MD

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ZK 171
PULM
IN
Indianapolis, IN
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Bio

Dr. Fulkerson is a native of Western Kentucky and grew up in a small town.  After high school, he attended college at the University of Kentucky where he pursued degrees in chemistry and biology.  After college, he enrolled in medical school at the University of Kentucky in the MD-PhD program.  His graduate work largely centered around lysophosphatidic acid metabolism and platelet signaling.

After completing his PhD and MD, Dr. Fulkerson moved to Indianapolis with his wife and did residency training in internal medicine and subsequent fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care.

Dr. Fulkerson sepcializes in pulmonary hypertension and exercise physiology.  He has published on the manifestations of metabolic myopathies on exercise testing.  He has spoken nationally about exercise testing in the general pulmonary patient and patients with pulmonary hypertension.

Please visit Dr. Fulkerson's YouTube page to access his medical education videos including his video outlining waveform capnography, winner of the 2018 best video in the "Best of ATS Video Lecture Series."

Key Publications

Altherr C, Sietsema KE, Fulkerson Z. When the Powerhouse Is the Problem. Ann Am Thorac Soc. March 2024

Cochard E, Fulkerson Z, Carlos WG. Implementation of a point-of-care ultrasound skills practicum for hospitalists. Ultrasound. July 2018

Kutkut I, Vater L, Goldman M, Czader M, Swenberg J, Fulkerson Z, Mehta R. Thrombocytopenia and disseminated histoplasmosis in immunocompetent adults. Clin case reports. 2017;5(12):1954-1960.

Fulkerson Z, Wu T, Sunkara M, Kooi CV, Morris AJ, Smyth SS. Binding of autotaxin to integrins localizes lysophosphatidic acid production to platelets and mammalian cells. J Biol Chem. 2011;286(40).

Hausmann J, Kamtekar S, Christodoulou E, Day JE, Wu T, Fulkerson Z, et al. Structural basis of substrate. discrimination and integrin binding by autotaxin. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2011;18(2)

Morris AJ, Panchatcharam M, Cheng HY, Fulkerson Z, et al. Regulation of blood and vascular cell function by bioactive lysophospholipids. J Thromb Haemost. 2009;7(SUPPL. 1).

Pamuklar Z, Federico L, Liu S, Umezu-Goto M, Dong A, Panchatcharam M, Fulkerson Z, et al. Autotaxin/lysopholipase D and lysophosphatidic acid regulate murine hemostasis and thrombosis. J Biol Chem. 2009;284(11):7385-7394.

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