Description
Contributors
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Timothy J. Craig
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Distinguished Educator
Chief, Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Program Director
Director of Clinical Allergy and Respiratory Research
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA -
Michael M. Frank, MD
Samuel L. Katz Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Immunology
Duke University School of Medicine
Michael M. Frank, MD is the Samuel L. Katz Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology in the Duke University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital. He has held prior positions at Duke University including Chairman, Department of Pediatrics and Medicine and Chief of Staff, Duke Hospital. While at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIAID, NIH), Dr. Frank held several positions including Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI); Clinical Director, NIAID and Head, Clinical Immunology Section LCI, NIAID. He has also been a member of the AIDS Research Advisory Council, Office of AIDS Research at NIH and the NIAM S Advisory Council of NIH. Dr. Frank’s clinical interests include defects in host defenses (complement), allergic and immunologic diseases, autoimmune diseases and hereditary angioedema. Research in his laboratory revolves around effector mechanisms of immune damage. He is interested in understanding how antibody and complement contribute to the damage of tissues and micro-organisms. Overlapping areas of interest include the role of mediators in inflammation and the functions of antibody and complement in the production of autoimmune disease.
Currently, Dr. Frank is a member of the Editorial Boards of Current Opinions in Pediatrics and Medicine and a Reviewing Editor of the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. In past years Dr. Frank has been a Deputy Editor and Associate Editor for The Journal of Immunology and member of the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Blood and The Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is the former Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Frank is the recipient of the Honorary Fellow Award from the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology in 1996; the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1994; NIAD, Jerome Glaser Lecturer, American Academy of Allergy and Immunology in 1990; E.E.O’s Special Achievement Award in 1989; McLaughlin Medical, University of Texas, Galveston in 1983; the Distinguished Service Medal, US Pubic Health Service in 1982 and Meritorious Service Medal in 1975. -
Marco Cicardi
Department Scienze Cliniche Luigi Sacco
Universita di Milano
Ospedale L.Sacco
Milano, Italy -
Aleena Banerji
Clinical Immunology/Allergy Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
