ABAI Welcomes Class of '17 Directors
2012 ABAI Board of Directors met in Baltimore, MD, in April for their Interim Spring Meeting. At the meeting, the ABAI welcomed four new directors to serve on their BOD through 2017.
From left: William K. Dolen, MD, David I. Bernstein, MD, Joshua A. Boyce, MD, Calman Prussin, MD.
(Photo by Will Thompson)
David I. Bernstein, MD
David Bernstein, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology Division in the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, OH, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Allergy Fellowship Training Program. He earned his BA and MD degrees at the University of Cincinnati and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Hospitals and his Allergy-Immunology Fellowship at Northwestern University. At UC, Dr. Bernstein's roles include Principal Investigator - T32 Allergy Immunology Training Grant and Director of the Diagnostic Allergy Laboratory. His interests and expertise are focused on occupational lung disease, epidemiology of allergic disease in childhood, contact dermatitis, asthma pharmacology, allergen immunotherapy, and drug allergy.
Joshua A. Boyce, MD
Joshua A. Boyce, MD, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is the Director of the Inflammation and Allergic Disease Research Section and the Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, and Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine in Allergic Disease at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Boyce is a member of the Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). In 2012 he received the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) Special Recognition Award for his role as the Chairman of the NIH-sponsored Expert Panel that developed the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy. Dr. Boyce is widely published in the area of pulmonary disorders and offers this expertise along with specific interests in mast cells, lipid mediators, asthma, and pediatrics to ABAI’s secure exams.
William K. Dolen, MD
William K. Dolen, MD, is professor of pediatrics and medicine at Georgia Regents University (GHSU), Augusta, GA, and director of the allergy-immunology fellowship program. He is a graduate of Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, and the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences; he completed his residency training in Pediatrics at Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco, California, and fellowship in allergy-immunology at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado. He has conducted research in the areas of diagnostic allergy testing, allergen characterization and chronic sinusitis, and teaches basic immunology to second-year medical students at GHSU. Dr. Dolen also brings expertise and interests in upper airway anatomy and disorders and asthma to his post at ABAI.
Calman Prussin, MD
Calman Prussin, MD, is Chief of the Lymphocyte Biology Unit within the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID), Bethesda, MD. He earned his MD degree from the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Prussin completed his internal medicine residency at Los Angeles County—USC Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology at NIAID. He finished his Allergy and Immunology clinical fellowship at NIH. He is a member of the International Eosinophil Society and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association. Dr. Prussin offers vast research and knowledge in the areas of anaphylaxis, drug allergy, eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease, T cell immunology, and the mechanisms of allergy to his directorship at ABAI.
The ABAI Board of Directors met in Baltimore, MD, in April 2012 for their Interim Spring Meeting. Front row, from left: Linda Cox, Calman Prussin, Scott H. Sicherer, Stokes Peebles, Joshua A. Boyce, Mary Beth Fasano (ABAI Chair), John M. James, David I. Bernstein, Gurjit K. Hershey. Standing: Anne-Marie A. Irani (ABMS Director at Large), David Huston (ABIM Director Representative), Stephen F. Kemp, T. Prescott Atkinson, Stephen C. Dreskin, Stephen I. Wasserman (ABAI President), Michael R. Nelson, John Oppenheimer, Robert A. Wood (ABP Director Representative), Stuart L. Abramson, William K. Dolen.
(Photo by Will Thompson)
