Christine Tucker, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Attending Physician, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Division of General Pediatrics
34th & Civic Center Blvd., 12NW
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Division of General Pediatrics
34th & Civic Center Blvd., 12NW
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S. (Biology)
Bucknell University, 1999.
M.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2009.
Permanent linkB.S. (Biology)
Bucknell University, 1999.
M.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2009.
Selected Publications
Bhatia D, Dickinson B, Tucker C, Etra B, Ferguson I, Grahe J, Altman A, McDonald M, McGregor R.: Impact of a quality improvement project on second-hand smoke exposure for visitors to a tertiary care center. Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2012. December 2012.Berrozpe G, Agosti V, Tucker C, Blanpain C, Manova K, Besmer P.: A distant upstream locus control region is critical for expression of the Kit receptor gene in mast cells. Molecular Cell Biology 26(15): 5850-60, August 2006.
Agosti V, Corbacioglu S, Ehlers I, Waskow C, Sommer G, Berrozpe G, Kissel H, Tucker CM, Manova K, Moore MA, Rodewald HR, Besmer P.: Critical role for Kit-mediated Src kinase but not PI 3-kinase signaling in pro T and pro B cell development. The Journal of Experimental Medicine 199(6): 867-78, March 2004.