Overview
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati offer an accredited Allergy / Immunology Fellowship. Its purpose is to prepare physicians for academic and research careers in the field of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Established in 1962, the fellowship is a combined program with an adult and pediatric track which features strong clinical and research training.
Goals
- Graduate physician scientists who will be leaders and generate innovation in the field of allergy and immunology
- Graduate physicians who will pursue an academic career
Objectives
- Learn the basis of the clinical practice of allergy and immunology
- Be competent in delivering clinical care and performing procedures in all areas of allergy and immunology
- Acquire competence in conducting research in allergy and immunology; research may be clinical, basic or translational
- Write competitive grants and compete for funding
- Execute research protocols and publish results in excellent peer reviewed journals
- Learn the basis for collaborative work with other researchers in related fields
Training and Electives
Clinical training in both inpatient and outpatient settings extensively covers allergy, asthma, food allergy, occupational lung disease and primary immunodeficiencies.
Electives are offered in:
Cross training in pediatric and adult allergy is in both inpatient and outpatient settings and extends over the length of the training. Download our 2007 Fellowship brochure (2053 k) in portable document format (.pdf) to learn more.
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Research
Active and innovative basic and clinical research is conducted in:
- Mechanisms of inflammatory disease
- New therapies of asthma and allergic diseases
- Mechanisms of occupational lung disease
- Food hypersensitivity
- Reproductive immunology
- Eosinophil biology
- Eosinophil associated disorders
- Genetics of asthma
- Experimental murine models of allergic disease
- Chemokines and the role of cytokines in regulation of immune responses; molecular biology
- Transgenic and gene targeting analysis on mice
- Immune deficiency
Program Duration
The fellowship program requires three years to complete.
Contact Us
If you need any additional information about the Allergy / Immunology Division, please contact:
Kathy Henderson, Coordinator
Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, Division Director
Division of Allergy and Immunology
3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 2000
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Phone: 513-636-7210
Email: kathy.evans@cchmc.org or marc.rothenberg@cchmc.org
If you need further help from the pediatric track, please direct your inquiry to:
Amal Assa'ad, MD, Fellowship Co-Director
Attn: Miss Kathy Henderson
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Division of Allergy and Immunology
MLC 2000
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Phone: 513-636-6771
Fax: 513-636-4615
Email: kathy.evans@cchmc.org
If you need further help from the internal medicine track, please direct your inquiry to:
David Bernstein, MD, Fellowship Co-Director
Attn: Miss Shakeith Graber
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Division of Immunology
231 Albert Sabin Way
ML 0563
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0563
Phone: 513-558-4701
Fax: 513-558-3799
Email: grabers@usmail.uc.edu
