Adam Spanier, MD, MPH
Appointment
Research Instructor
Email
adam.spanier@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-3170
Fax
513-636-4402
Bio
Adam Spanier, MD, MPH, attended Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge where he earned his Bachelors degree. He then continued his education at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans where he earned an MD and MPH. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, OH. He is completed a combined General Pediatric Research Fellowship and Pediatric Environmental Health Fellowship in the division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's. He is currently a faculty member in the division of General and Community Pediatrics, where he is caring for patient in the Lead Clinic and on the Generalist Inpatient Service and is pursuing research. His research goals are to understand how environmental and genetic risk factors interplay in asthma severity and to integrate this knowledge into the improved care for pediatric asthma and prevention of pediatric asthma.
Credentials
MD: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, 2000.
Residency: Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital/ Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Certification: Pediatrics, 2003.
Awards and Honors
- William Cooper Procter Scholar, 2006
- PAS Young Investigator's Travel Award, 2005
Research
Environmental health; asthma; allergy; lead poisoning
Research Grants and Contracts
US Department of Housing and Urban Development, "Allergen Loading versus Allergen Concentration for Predicting Sensitization and Asthma Severity," November 1, 2003-Feburary 28, 2004, PI
HRSA Bureau of Health Professions, DHHS
National Research Service Award in Primary Care, "Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)," July 1, 2003-June 30, 2008, Trainee.
Children's Hospital Research Foundation
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, "William Cooper Procter Scholar Research Award," July 1, 2006-June 30, 2008, PI.
HUD, "Development of a Standardized Home Assessment for Asthma: A Multi-Site Study," November 1, 2005 – June 30, 2007, Co-Investigator.
NIH, Exploratory/ Developmental Research Grant Award (R21), "Environmental Exposures, NOS Genes, and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pediatric Asthma," July 1, 2006-June 30, 2008, PI.
Publications, Most Recent
Spanier, AJ and Lanphear, B. Current Best Evidence: Follow-up testing among children with elevated screening blood lead levels.The Journal of Pediatrics, 147(5):708-709, 2005.
Presentations, Most Recent
Spanier, AJ, Hornung, R, Lierl M, and Lanphear, BP. Predictors of Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma. Poster Presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, May 2005, Washington DC.
Spanier, AJ, Hornung, R, Lierl M, and Lanphear, BP. Environmental Exposures, NOS genes, and Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pediatric Asthma. Oral Presentation at the third annual pediatric environmental health scholars meeting, March 2005, Reston, VA.
Spanier, AJ, Hornung, R, and Lanphear, BP. Allergen Loading versus Allergen Concentration for Predicting Sensitization and Asthma Severity. Oral Presentation at the second annual pediatric environmental health scholars meeting, March 2004, Reston, VA.
Spanier, AJ, O'Riordan MA, and Heneghan, A. Lead Screening Attitudes and Practices Among Greater Cleveland Pediatric Practitioners. Oral presentation at the Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital Pediatric Research Day, June 2003, Cleveland, OH.
Editorial Positions
- Public Health Reports, Contributing editor, Oct. 2004-Present
Professional Organization Memberships
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Ambulatory Pediatric Association
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Special Interests
Lead poisoning; asthma
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