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The Division of Allergy and Immunology at Albany Medical College offers a two-year accredited fellowship in adult and pediatric Allergy and Immunology. Upon successful completion of the program, trainees will be eligible to sit for the board certification examination in Allergy and Immunology.
Our program is open to qualified board certified or board eligible internal medicine, general pediatrics or Medicine-Pediatrics graduates. Our goal is to provide trainees with expertise in the clinical management and conduction of clinical and translational research in allergic and immunologic diseases. The program consists of rotations in a busy academic allergy and immunology practice, a large private allergy practice, and in-hospital consult services at Albany Medical Center, the only academic health sciences center in northeastern New York. Electives are available in pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases including HIV medicine, in both adults and children. Trainees are required to spend a continuous six-month rotation in clinical or translational laboratory research in food allergy, asthma, role of nitric oxide and exhaled breath condensate in respiratory diseases, and the molecular biology of cells involved in allergic inflammation such as mast cells, basophils and eosinophils.
Trainees are required to complete a research project before graduation suitable to be presented at a national meeting and/or published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Those who are seriously considering an academic career may elect to spend a third year of training dedicated mainly to research leading to a junior faculty training or developing investigator grant.
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Research Initiatives
2024
Saba Farooq, MBBS, Hira Haq, MD , Maciej Gracz , MD , Jocelyn Celestin, MD , Muhammad Asghar Pasha, MD. Allergic Contact Dermatitis from Lidocaine in Pain Relief Cream: A Case Report. ACAAI 2024; Boston, MA; October 24-28, 2024.
Hira Haq, MD, Chrstine Jacob, Rawaa Alnabulsi, MD, Nazia Habib, MD, Muhammad Pasha, MD. Marked Eosinophilia In A Patient With Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease. ACAAI 2024; Boston, MA; October 24-28, 2024.
Hira Haq, MD. What’s New in Atopic Dermatitis? Medicine Grand Rounds, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York; August 8, 2024.
Hira Haq, MD. Update on Pediatric and Adult Atopic Dermatitis. 27th Annual of the Asthma, Allergy & Immunology Update, Saratoga Springs, New York. July 11, 2024.
Taliercio MJ, Alnabulsi RK, Uppal PA, Shaw IM, Semenza KM, Pasha MA. Metal implant allergy: A retrospective cohort analysis at a university allergy practice. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2024 May 1;45(3):186-194. doi: 10.2500/aap.2024.45.240005. PMID: 38755777.
Keskin S, Pak Y, Celestin J. What lessons are learned?: Our changing practice during 30 years of hereditary angioedema treatment. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2024 Jun;132(6):774-776. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2024.02.009. Epub 2024 Feb 23. PMID:38403158.
2023
R. Alnabulsi, Y. Pak, MA Pasha. “Lentils, An Uncommon Food Causing Food Dependent Exercise Induced Anaphylaxis.” 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting: ACAAI Meeting, Anaheim, CA. November 9-13, 2023.
R. Alnabulsi, S. Martin, J. Celestin. “Chronic Granulomatous Disease: A Tale of Two Brothers.” 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting: ACAAI Meeting, Anaheim, CA. November 9-13, 2023.
H. Haq, R. Alnabulsi, MA Pasha. “Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome: An Unusual Presentation of Orofacial Edema.” 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting: ACAAI Meeting, Anaheim, CA. November 9-13, 2023.
Jennifer Pier, Theresa Bingemann, Jasdeep Badwal, Daniel Rosloff, M. Asghar Pasha, Hongyue Wang, Kirsi Jarvinen, and Jeanne Lomas; Food Protein-Induced Enterolcolitis Syndrome: Healthcare Utilization and Referral Patterns Among a Pediatric Cohort. Frontiers in Allergy; Feb 2023. (Front. Allergy 4:1102410. doi: 10.3389/falgy.2023.1102410).
Ian Shaw, DO, Rawaa K Alnabulsi, MBBS, M Asghar Pasha, MD. Adult Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome to Shrimp. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Conference, San Antonio, TX; Feb 2023.
2022
2-Octyl cyanoacrylate, a hidden allergen, a common cause of postsurgical allergic contact dermatitis
Peggy E. Salazar, MD, Nazia Habib, MD, and Muhammad A. Pasha, MD Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, Volume 43, Number 6, 1 November 2022, pp. 529-532(4).
Alnabulsi, Rawaa. Efficacy Of Concurrent Treatment with Omalizumab in A Patient with Anaphylaxis to Venom Immunotherapy. ACAAI Meeting, Louisville, KY. 11/10-11/14/2022.
Sevdenur Keskin, Ashgar M. Pasha Novel Heterozygous Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in STAT-3 Gene in Patient with Suspected Hyper IgE Syndrome Poster presented at the ACAAI Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. 11/10-11/14/2022.