Healio Allergy/Asthma announces creation of its esteemed Peer Perspective Board
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Leading specialists in allergy, asthma and immunology have formed Healio Allergy/Asthma’s Peer Perspective Board to help guide coverage and provide their expert take on the latest advances in the field.
Members of the board have years of experience treating patients with asthma, food and drug allergies, allergic rhinitis and nasal polyps, chronic urticaria and eczema, eosinophilic esophagitis, primary immunodeficiency and more. Their knowledge and expertise will help inform our coverage and support Healio’s ongoing mission to select and tailor news and education for the practicing physician.
Healio Allergy/Asthma is pleased to unveil members of its Board, including:
Aikaterini (Katherine) Anagnostou, MD (Hons), MSc, PhD
Anagnostou is a professor of pediatrics in the division of immunology, allergy and retrovirology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She also is the director of the Food Immunotherapy Program and Food Challenge Program, codirector of the Food Allergy Program and lead for Adolescent Transition for Allergy at Texas Children’s Hospital. She is the vice chair of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Food Allergy Committee as well.
Priya Bansal, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI
Bansal is an allergist and immunologist at Asthma and Allergy Wellness Center in St. Charles, Illinois, and a member of the faculty at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Practice Management Workshop and chair of its Communication Oversights Committee. She also is a member of the AAAAI COVID-19 Task Force and the AAAAI Board of Directors. In addition, she serves as a delegate for the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology House of Delegates.
Michael S. Blaiss, MD, FACAAI, FAAAAI
Blaiss is clinical professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and executive medical director of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Jennifer A. Dantzer, MD, MHS
Dantzer is an assistant professor of pediatrics, pediatric allergy, immunology and rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Jessica Grayson, MD
Grayson is assistant professor in the department of otolaryngology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine. There she also serves as co-director of rhinology and anterior skull base surgery and the physician lead for the otolaryngology clinic.
Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD
Guttman-Yassky is the Waldman Professor and System Chair at the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also is the director of the Center of Excellence in Eczema and of the Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Disease.
Douglas H. Jones, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI
Jones is cofounder of Global Food Therapy, Food Allergy Support Team and OITConnect, and the director at Rocky Mountain Allergy at Tanner Clinic.
Jay A. Lieberman, MD
Lieberman is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and chair of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Food Allergy Committee.
Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
Mahdavinia is chief of the division of allergy and immunology at Rush University Medical Center and associate professor of medicine and graduate college in the division of allergy and immunology of the department of internal medicine at Rush Medical College.
Kelly Maples, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI
Maples is associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and an allergist and immunologist at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. She just completed a 3-year term on the ACAAI Board of Regents and, in addition to serving on the ACAAI Annual Meeting Programming Committee, she serves as chair of the ACAAI Dermatology Committee and Scientific Council.
Amanda Michaud, DMSc, PA-C, AE-C
Michaud is a physician assistant with Family Allergy & Asthma Consultants and secretary of the Association of PAs in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Jennifer Namazy, MD, FAAAAI
Namazy is an allergist and immunologist at Scripps Clinic Medical Group. She serves as chair of the AAAAI Women’s Health Committee and member of the AAAAI Vaccine and Medications during Pregnancy Surveillance Systems, or VAMPSS. She also is past president of the Western Society of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the San Diego Allergy Society.
John J. Oppenheimer, MD
Oppenheimer is clinical professor of medicine at UMDNJ Rutgers University School of Medicine and an allergist at Pulmonary and Allergy Associates NJ.
Rima Rachid, MD, FAAAAI
Rachid is director of the Allergen Immunotherapy Program and co-director of the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children's Hospital, a FARE Clinical Network Discovery Center. She also serves as associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Allison Ramsey, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI
Ramsey is an allergist and clinical immunologist at Rochester Regional Health, as well as clinical assistant professor of medicine at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She also serves as chair of the AAAAI Adverse Reactions to Drugs, Biologicals and Latex Committee.
Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD
Rothenberg is director of the division of allergy and immunology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and director of the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders.
Benjamin Ungar, MD
Ungar is the director of the Rosacea & Seborrheic Dermatitis Clinic at Mount Sinai and an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.