Meetings

School in Hypersensitivity & Allergic Diseases

Co-Organized by:

Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Presentations

Friday, September 7, 2007
8:15 – 8:45 am	Naureen Alim, MD Baylor College of Medicine Rapid Oral Desensitization to Furosemide in a Patient with Sulfonamide Allergy
8:45 – 9:15 am	Andrew Bird, MD Texas Children’s Hospital Lymphocyte Proliferation Response in Soy Allergy
9:15 – 9:45 am	Rachel Story, MD MPH Northwestern University Overweight Children with Asthma: A Multi-disciplinary Clinic-based Approach to Improving Asthma Symptoms
10:15 – 10:45 am	Todd Wilson, DO NIH / NIAID / LAD Exploring the Molecular Genetics of Aggressive Systemic Mastocytosis
10:45 – 11:15 am	Wesley Burks, MD Duke University Medical Center Peanut Allergy: Desensitization and Tolerance
12:30 – 1:00 pm	Soheil Chegini, MD Penn State University Mechanism of Asthma Chronopharmacotherapy with Inhaled Corticosteroids
1:00 – 1:30 pm	Autumn Ford, MD University of Virginia Asthma, Breathlessness, and Obesity in School Age Children
1:30 – 2:00 pm	Alkis Togias, MD DAIT / NIAID / NIH Airway Hyperresponsiveness: Dissecting the Mechanisms
2:15 – 2:45 pm	Marc Riedl, MD UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Interventions for Particulate Induced Respiratory Oxidative Stress
2:45 – 3:15 pm	Melinda Butsch Kovacic, PhD MPH Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Effects of Diesel Exhaust Exposure & Glutathione S-Transferase Polymorphisms on Allergic Disease
3:45 – 4:15 pm	Yasuhiro Tabata MD PhD Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Allergy-driven Alternative Splicing of Interleukin-13 Receptor a2 Yields Distinct Membrane and Soluble Forms
4:15 – 4:45 pm	Lanny Rosenwasser, MD Children’s Mercy Hospital & Clinics Pharmacogenetics in Asthma Treatment
Saturday, September 8, 2007
8:00 – 8:30 am	Wayne Shreffler, MD PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine Immune Sensitization, Regulation and Reactivity to Dietary Antigens
8:30 – 9:00 am	Adam Williams, MD Scripps Clinic MicroRNA and Gene Expression Profiles of Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Activation in Human Kidney Transplantation
9:00 – 9:30 am	Angela Dolganiuc, MD PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School Type III IFN (IFN-l) Promotes Expansion of CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T cells in a Myeloid Dendritic Cell Dependent Manner
10:00 – 10:30 am	Carol Cady, MD PhD National Jewish Medical & Research Center IgG Interaction with FcgRII Influences Basophil Reactivity
10:30 – 11:00 am	Danna Chung, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center Omega-5 Gliadin IgE Testing for Wheat Allergy
11:00 – 11:30 am	Matthew Fenton, PhD FAAAAI DAIT/NIAID/NIH Use of Cell-Permeable Peptides to Dissect TLR Signaling
2:00 – 2:30 pm	Anne Behnecke, MD University of California at Los Angeles Allergen Gene Vaccination: Approach for Allergen Specific Immunotherapy in Severe Food Allergy
2:30 – 3:00 pm	Scott Commins, MD PhD University of Virginia Anaphylactic and Urticarial Reactions in Patients with IgE Antibodies Specific for the Xenoantigen Alpha 1-3 Galactose
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, MD PhD Children’s Hospital Medical Center Genetics of Atopic Disorders: Epithelial Genes in Allergic Inflammation
Sunday, September 9, 2007
8:00 – 8:30 am	Alison Hofmann, MD Duke University Novel Nasal Vaccine for Pertussis
8:30 – 9:00 am	Cecilia Mikita, MD MPH Walter Reed Army Medical Center The Observed Structured Clinical Examination: An Assessment Tool in the Allergy-Immunology Fellowship
9:00 – 9:30 am	Thomas Platts-Mills, MD PhD University of Virginia Medical Center Martha Stewart, Karl Landsteiner, and the Enigmatic Regional Prevalence of Anaphylactic Reactions during Treatment with Cetuximab
10:00 – 10:30 am	Elif Dokmeci, MD Yale University EBI3 Protein in Experimental Models of Airway Inflammation
10:30 – 11:00 am	Barbara Martinez, MD NIH/NIAID/LAD Characterization of Attachment Fimbriae of ETEC Strains from an Endemic Region in Mexico, 1998-2005
11:00 – 11:30 am	Sameer Mathur, MD PhD University of Wisconsin An Eosinophil Immunoregulatory Activity
2:30 – 3:00 pm	Manoj Warrier, MD Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center IL-13Ra2 in Atopic Dermatitis
3:00 – 3:30 pm	Katherine Bloom, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center Recognition of Clinical Tolerance to Baked Milk Products in Milk-Allergic Children
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Joshua Boyce, MD FAAAAI Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cysteinyl Leukotrienes and their Receptors as Regulators of Mast Cell Development and Function
4:30 – 5:00 pm	Manav Segal, MD Creighton University Medical Center The Role of Estrogen, Tamoxifen, and Faslodex in Preventing AHR in a Mouse Model of Asthma
5:00 – 5:30 pm	David Huston, MD Baylor College of Medicine Sleuthing the Roles of Cytokines in Allergy and Immunology