Program Directors
The Allergy / Immunology Fellowship Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is directed by Amal Assa'ad, MD, who also directs the pediatric track of the fellowship. David Bernstein, MD, is co-director of the fellowship and director of the internal medicine track.
 | Amal Assa'ad, MD has been program director since 1995. Dr. Assa'ad is a medicine / pediatrics residency graduate with board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, and allergy / immunology, and she is a full-time Professor of Pediatrics. She provides the clinical training for the fellows through bedside teaching in the outpatient clinics, the inpatient allergy / immunology consult service, and through teaching conferences. She has a large following of patients with a wide spectrum of allergic and immunologic disorders and is particularly known in the area of food allergy and eosinophilic disorders. She has established and directs a multidisciplinary food allergy clinic where patients are seen from around the world. Dr. Assa'ad provides the broad goals and objectives for the fellowship, and makes sure that the structure and details of the fellowship training are leading towards these goals. Dr. Assa'ad has a prominent role on the national leadership scene of fellowship education, as the chair-elect of the executive committee of Program Directors Assembly. |
 | David I. Bernstein, MD has been a director of allergy / immunology training since 1982. Dr. Bernstein is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic and allergy / immunology training at Northwestern University. Dr. Bernstein is board certified in internal medicine, allergy / immunology, and diagnostic laboratory immunology. He is a Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Bernstein is a national figure in fellowship education, having directed the fellowship for 23 years, in research, being NIH funded, and in clinical work. He has brought great visibility and national recognition to the program and raised the academic level by leading the fellowship program in 2004 to obtain an NIH T32 grant for the training of allergy / immunology fellows. |
