Absolute Allergy and Immunology Board Review

Dr. Massoud Mahmoudi is a practicing internist and allergist in Los Gatos California. He completed his Ph. D. program in Microbiology at University of North Texas and Wadley Institutes of Molecular Medicine in Texas. Subsequently he completed three different post doctoral fellowships at UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas Texas doing research on oncogenes, biology of aging, and tissue plasminogen activator. He then attended A.T. Still University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville Missouri where he completed his DO degree. Subsequently he attended an internal medicine residency program at Yale University and Rowan University. Then he completed a fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at University of California Davis. He is currently President of the American Osteopathic College of Allergy and Immunology and a faculty member at University of California San Francisco, Rowan University, and Touro University. He is the author/editor of 10 books on Allergy, Immunology, and other medical topics. He was a columnist for local newspapers and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has spoken locally and nationally on Allergy and Immunology and has appeared on local television stations and Fox News. Dr. Mahmoudi is currently the Editor-in Chief of the peer reviewed journal "SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine", a Nature-Springer publication.

Tentative chapter authors:

This is a partial list of potential contributors:

1- Marcy Bolster Harvard program director rheumatology

2-Tim Craig-Program director allergy Immunology Penn State

3-Robert Hostoffer Program directors Cleveland University Hospital

4- Satoshi Yoshida Harvard Continuing Medical Education

5-Howard Maibach Dermatology UCSF

6-Massoud Mahmoudi Editor-UCSF

7-Schuman Tam UCSF

8-Haig Tcheurekdjian Cleveland University Hospital

9-Marianne Frierri Nassa University Hospital