Current Fellows
Our current fellows in the Allergy / Immunology Fellowship Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center come from a broad range of backgrounds that encompass various academic and research interests:
Pediatric | Adult
Pediatric
1st Year Fellow
Li Zuo, MD, attended Zunyi Medical College, China, and completed his pediatric training at the Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH. He has an extensive research background. During the first year of fellowship, Li already has one publication and he is currently working on several research projects: the role of infant feeding in childhood allergy with Amal Assa'ad, MD and Ardythe Morrow, MD, anti-IL5 clinical trial for eosinophilic esophagitis patients and effect of IL-13 on eosinophilic esophagitis patients, along with Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD. (Li.Zuo@cchmc.org)
2nd Year Fellows
Ann Collier, MD, attended Rice University, University of Wisconsin Medical School / Northwestern University Medical School, and completed her pediatric training at the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital at Loyola University Medical Center, and her first year of fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is studying the role of arginase in lung inflammation in the laboratory of Nives Zimmermann, MD. (Ann.Collier@cchmc.org)
Luqman Seidu, MD, attended Youngstown State University, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, and completed his pediatric training at Tod Children's Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio, and his first year of fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Luqman already has one publication, during his fellowship, concerning resistin like molecule (RELM) beta and RELM alpha resulting from his research work in the laboratory of Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD and Simon Hogan, PhD. (Luqman.Seidu@cchmc.org)
3rd Year Fellow
Jennifer Bullock, MD, attended Princeton University, Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, and completed her pediatric training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and her first two years of fellowship at Cincinnati Children's. Jennifer already has one publication resulting from the study of immunologic phenotyping of children with eosinophilic esophagitis in the laboratory of Simon Hogan, PhD. (Jennifer.Bullock@cchmc.org)
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Internal Medicine (Adult)
1st Year Fellow
Maziar Rezvani, MD, attended University of Louisville, Ross University Medical School, and completed his internal medicine training at Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently working on several research projects: assessment of women with and without asthma exposed to cleaning agents in the home, and clinical trials involving hereditary angioedema treatment including Behring, Jerini, Lev, and Dyax, with his mentor, Jonathan Bernstein, MD. (mrezvani@hotmail.com)
2nd Year Fellows
Hetal Amin, MD, attended University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School, and completed her internal medicine training at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and her first year of fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. Hetal has one publication and she is studying the following: (1) evaluation of IgE-mediated allergenicity to purified Hev b proteins in health care workers sensitized to natural rubber latex, (2) effects of household cleaning agents in asthmatic and non-asthmatic women, a prospective cohort study, (3) effects and clinical outcomes of the use of anti-bradykinin antagonists in the treatment of acute exacerbation in patients with hereditary angioedema, along with David I. Bernstein, MD and Jonathan Bernstein, MD. (dochetal2001@yahoo.com)
Andrew Smith, MD, attended Princeton University, Northwestern University Medical School, and completed his internal medicine training at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his first year of fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. Andrew is also in the Molecular Epidemiology Master's Program at the University of Cincinnati. He has two publications and is studying diisocyanate exposure and the development of occupational asthma with Dr. David Bernstein, and IL4/IL13 gene polymorphisms and traffic-related air pollution interaction in the development of childhood asthma with David I. Bernstein, MD, Grace Lemasters, PhD, and Gurjit Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD. (sa6@email.uc.edu)
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