The Allergy/Immunology Division, based at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus, provides clinical care, offers training, and conducts research on disorders of the immune system in children and adults, whether those of exaggerated or misdirected immune responses (egs., anaphylaxis, asthma) or of insufficient immune function (eg, common variable immunodeficiency).
The Allergy/Immunology Practice provides outpatient consultative and continuous care, and inpatient consultative care, for the full range of allergic diseases, including asthma, allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, and dermatitis, for food allergies, urticaria, and anaphylaxis, and also for non-HIV disorders of immunodeficiency (common variable immunodeficiency, hypgammaglobulinemia, etc). The combined Ches/Allergy outpatient practice offers a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for allergic diseases, including skin testing, desensitization programs, nasopharyngoscopy, spirometry, and measurement of exhaled nitric oxide.
Training opportunities are available to medical students and residents seeking elective rotations, and to post-graduate fellows seeking specialty training in Allergy/Immunology.
The faculty are engaged in a range of clinical and basic research activities, from clinical studies of new therapeutic interventions (egs, omalizumab treatment of allergic sinusitis; efficacy of prolonged macrolide antibiotic treatment of poorly controlled asthma), to clinical studies of mechanisms of disease (eg, application of new methods for microbial detection to study of bronchial biopsies from asthmatic and healthy subjects), to basic research on mechanisms of neural modulation of immune function in animal models.
In its clinical, educational, and research missions, the Allergy/immunology Division works in close collaboration with other Divisions and Departments at UCSF, including Pediatrics (Pulmonary and General Pediatrics), Pulmonary and Occupational&Environmental Medicine, Dermatology, Otolaryngology, Anesthesiology, Microbiology, Biophysics, and others.
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