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Alexandra Pietraszkiewicz

Alexandra Pietraszkiewicz, MD

Languages spoken: English, Polish, Spanish

Clinical Locations

Midvalley Health Center

Murray
801-585-3937
  • Specialties

    Board Certification

    National Board of Medical Examiners
  • Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences -Primary
    Board Certification
    National Board of Medical Examiners

    Education history

    Residency Ophthalmology - Sinai Hospital Resident
    Internal Medicine - Sinai Hospital Preliminary Resident
    Professional Medical Medicine - University of Connecticut School of Medicine M.D.
    Human Science - Georgetown University B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Pietraszkiewicz AA, Payne D, Abraham M, Garced A, Devarasetty KC, Wall M, Menezes SM, Ugarte S, Pirsl F, Goklemez S, Ferris FL, Barrett J, Battiwalla M, Childs RW, Pavletic SZ, Bishop RJ (2021). Ocular surface indicators and biomarkers in chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease: a prospective cohort study. Bone Marrow Transplant, 56(8), 1850-1858. (Read full article)
    2. Ratnapriya R, Sosina OA, Starostik MR, Kwicklis M, Kapphahn RJ, Fritsche LG, Walton A, Arvanitis M, Gieser L, Pietraszkiewicz A, Montezuma SR, Chew EY, Battle A, Abecasis GR, Ferrington DA, Chatterjee N, Swaroop A (2019). Retinal transcriptome and eQTL analyses identify genes associated with age-related macular degeneration. Nat Genet, 51(4), 606-610. (Read full article)
    3. Pietraszkiewicz A, Hampton C, Caplash S, Lei L, Capetanaki Y, Tadvalkar G, Pal-Ghosh S, Stepp MA, Bargagna-Mohan P, Mohan R (2018). Desmin deficiency is not sufficient to prevent corneal fibrosis. Exp Eye Res, 180, 155-163. (Read full article)
    4. Rohrer B, Frazer-Abel A, Leonard A, Ratnapriya R, Ward T, Pietraszkiewicz A, OQuinn E, Adams K, Swaroop A, Wolf BJ (2019). Association of age-related macular degeneration with complement activation products, smoking, and single nucleotide polymorphisms in South Carolinians of European and African descent. Mol Vis, 25, 79-92. (Read full article)
    5. Pietraszkiewicz A, van Asten F, Kwong A, Ratnapriya R, Abecasis G, Swaroop A, Chew EY (2017). Association of Rare Predicted Loss-of-Function Variants in Cellular Pathways with Sub-Phenotypes in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmology, 125(3), 398-406. (Read full article)
    6. Shabbeer S, Omer D, Berneman D, Weitzman O, Alpaugh A, Pietraszkiewicz A, Metsuyanim S, Shainskaya A, Papa MZ, Yarden RI (2012). BRCA1 targets G2/M cell cycle proteins for ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Oncogene, 32(42), 5005-16. (Read full article)
    7. Bajaj R, Xu F, Xiang B, Wilcox K, Diadamo AJ, Kumar R, Pietraszkiewicz A, Halene S, Li P (2011). Evidence-based genomic diagnosis characterized chromosomal and cryptic imbalances in 30 elderly patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. Mol Cytogenet, 4, 3. (Read full article)
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