Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology was launched in 2001. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of allergy and clinical immunology are divided into 12 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editors and the Section Editors for this issue.
Editors
Mark Ballow, MD
Dr. Mark Ballow received his MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. After a Pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, he completed an Immunology Fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He was the Chief of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and he was then appointed as Chief of the Division of Clinical Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut from 1975 to 1988. Dr. Ballow is presently the Chief of the Division of Allergy/Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology, and Program Director of the Allergy/Immunology Fellowship program at The Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Ballow is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Allergy & Immunology, and in Clinical Laboratory Immunology. He was on the Board of Directors of the ABAI from 1992-1998. He has served on four Editorial boards including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1984-89; 1995-2000), and is an Ad Hoc reviewer for a number of pediatric, allergy and immunology journals.
Dr. Ballow has served as an Ad Hoc member of several NIH study sections, and was a member of the committee that published the first Allergy and Immunology Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MK-SAP), and served on the committee for the new 3rd edition of the AI-MK-SAP. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and is a member of the Clinical Immunology Society (Secretary/Treasurer), the Buffalo Allergy Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the American Pediatric Society.
Dr. Ballow has been very active in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology over the past 14 years serving as program director for the Immunology Course and has participated in numerous Academy seminars and workshops. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (1996-1999), and Chairs of the A/I Training Program Directors, BCI Interest Section, and the Post-graduate Education Program.
Dr. Ballow's major clinical interests include inner city asthma, chronic sinusitis, clinical immunology, and the uses and mechanisms of action of IVIG. His research interests include the immunology of the newborn infant and the immunoregulatory effects of Vitamin A and retinoic acid.
Giorgio Walter Canonica
Professor Canonica was born in Savona, Italy in 1947. He has been at the University of Genoa since 1969 and has also trained at the University of Nancy INSERM, the University of Uppsala, and the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Professor Canonica became Professor of Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Diseases at the Genoa Medical University in 1995. In 1997 he was made Director of the Specialty School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of the Department of Internal Medicine at Genoa University. Since 1998 he has been the University's Chairman of the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Clinic and in 2001 he became Director of the Specialty School of Pulmonary Diseases.
Professor Canonica is Secretary General of the World Allergy Organisation (WAO) and President of the Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine (SIMeR). He is a member of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), chairman of the CME committee, a Fellow of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology( AAAAI) as well as being a member of The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), The American Association of Immunologists (AAI), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). He is also the Executive Secretary of Italian Council for Accreditation in Pneumology - Continuing Medical Education (ICAP-CME).
Professor Canonica's main topics of research include: molecular events and interactions between immunocompetent cells, inflammatory cells, epithelial cells fibroblasts in allergic inflammation and tissue remodelling. T Iymphocytes: investigation of different subsets and their functional role in basic and clinical research (allergy, organ specific autoimmunity, CNS degenerative diseases and cancer). New antiallergic drugs and new strategies in the allergic disease treatment. Clinical and immunopharmacological activities of biological response modifiers such as IFNs, specific immunotherapy and steroids. And the quality of life of allergic patients.
Professor Canonica has published over 300 international full papers and is also Editor-in-Chief of Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Today and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Internationa. He acts as a referee for several allergy and pulmonology journals.
Section Editors
J. Andrew Grant, MD, FACP, FAAAAI
Dr. Grant is a native of Florida and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in biochemical sciences. After attending Duke Medical School, he did a residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He did a fellowship in immunology with Leroy Hood at the National Institutes of Health and an allergy-immunology clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins University with Phillip Norman and Lawrence Lichtenstein. In 1973, he established the first basic and clinical research program in allergy in Texas at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Presently he is Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology at that institution. He has served as president of the Texas Allergy Asthma and Immunology Society and a director of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. Currently he is on the Residency Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Grant's research interests have included mechanisms of cellular activation especially the role of chemokines and novel therapies for allergic disorders.
Stephen T. Holgate
Applying basic science to the clinical interface in allergy and asthma has been the guiding principle of Stephen Holgate's career. This has involved him in environmental and genetic epidemiology, physiology, cell and molecular biology of disease processes as they occur in humans. An AAAAI member since 1986 and Fellow from 2001, Professor Holgate has been active in the field of allergy and immunology both in the United Kingdom and overseas as well as contributing to the Academy. He was President of the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) from 1990-1993 and the Robert Cooks Memorial Lecturer in 1995 and 2000. He has been an active contributor to the CIA since 1990.
Professor Holgate is a member of the Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division in the School of Medicine, University of Southampton at Southampton General Hospital, UK and since 1987 has held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Professorship. He received his undergraduate medical training at Charing Cross Hospital, London and specialised in respiratory medicine and allergy. He holds Fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Pathologists, Institute of Biology and Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and has been a censor of the Royal College of Physicians. He has served on a number of Government Committees including the Sub-committee for Efficacy and Adverse Drug Reactions of the CSM (SEAR), MRC Project Grant Committee, Systems Board and Cross Board Group. He has been Chairman of the UK Department of health Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutions and has been appointed as Chairman of the UK Government (DEFA) Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards.
Professor Holgate is co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He has edited several textbooks on allergy including Asthma and Rhinitis and Allergy, with release of 2nd editions in 2000 and is one of the co-editors of Allergy: Principles and Practice. He has published over 800 papers in peer reviewed journals. Between 1990 and 2000 he was ranked 8th in the UK for citations in the Biomedical Sciences. His work has been recognised with a Scientific Achievement Award of the IAACI in 1994, the Rhône-Poulenc Rorer World Health Award in 1995, the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine in 1999 and Doctorates Hon Causa at University of Ferrara, Italy and Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
Ruby Pawankar, MD, Ph.D
Professor Dr. Ruby Pawankar did her medical education from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune, India and her specialization in ENT from the B J Medical College in Pune, India. She was invited to Japan on an International Fellowship of the Japanese Association of University Women, where she did her doctorate in ENT and Allergology & Immunology. She is now an Associate Professor at the Department of ENT, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. She also serves as a Guest Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan and the Department of Otolaryngology, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Dr. Pawankar is a Member of the Board of Directors of the World Allergy Organization (WAO), an Executive Committee Member of the WHO Rhinitis Guidelines Initiative (ARIA) and Chairperson of its Asia-Pacific Affiliate. She is the Vice-Chair of the Rhinitis Committee of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and is a Committee Member of several Consensus documents on Rhinosinusitis and Allergic Rhinitis. She is the Founding President of the International Symposium on Allergic Rhinitis (ISBAAR) and is a Committee Member/Faculty of several Internaional/National Congresses in the field of Rhinology, Allergy and Asthma.
Dr. Pawankar is a member of several prestigious academic organizations like the 'Collegium International Allergolicum' has received several prestigious academic awards and grants, has published more than 65 book chapters, more than 300 original papers and reviews and more than 6 books. She is an Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of several prestigious national/ international journals like Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, WAO Journal, Int Archives Allergy and Immunology, Clinical Experimental Allergy, and Am J Rhinology.
David P. Skoner, MD
Dr. Skoner completed his MD degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served his residency in general pediatrics at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he completed his fellowship in allergy/immunology at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has served as the Chief of the Section of Allergy/Immunology and Director of the Allergy and Immunology Training Program at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Currently he is the Director of the Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and Vice Chairman of Clinical Research in the Department of Pediatrics of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. His current research interests include the relationships between respiratory viruses, asthma, immunity, and stress; the relationship between viral and allergen-induced nasal inflammation and middle ear disease; and the efficacy and safety (HPA axis function and growth in children) of inhaled and intranasal steroids. Dr. Skoner has written over 100 articles and given over 200 presentations on respiratory disease. His articles and abstracts have been published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pediatric Research, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, JAMA, and American Review of Respiratory Disease. He is on the editorial board of American Journal of Rhinology and is a reviewer for Annals of Allergy, Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, and Journal of Infectious Diseases, among others. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Society of Pediatric Research, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. Dr. Skoner has been recognized as one of America's Top Doctors (Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.) for three consecutive years (2001-2003).
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