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.

Chapter 1. Innate and Adaptive Immunity.- Chapter 2. Immune cells and Functions.- Chapter 3. Allergic Eye Disease.- Chapter 4. Rhinitis.- Chapter 5. Otitis.- Chapter 6. Asthma.- Chapter 7. Occupational Asthma.- Chapter 8. Exercise-induced Asthma.- Chapter 9. Cough and Allergic Diseases.- Chapter 10. Cystic Fibrosis.- Chapter 11. Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.- Chapter 12. Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis.- Chapter 13. Food Allergy.- Chapter 14. Eosinphilic Esophagitis.- Chapter 15. Urticaria & Angioedema.- Chapter 16. Atopic Dermatitis.- Chapter 17. Mastocytosis.- Chapter 18. Insect Allergy.- Chapter 19. Latex Allergy.- Chapter 20. Facial Mask Allergy.- Chapter 21. Drug Allergy.- Chapter 22. Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Chapter 23. Reiter Syndrome and Reactive Arthritis.- Chapter 24. Lyme Disease.- Chapter 25. Vasculitis.- Chapter 26. B-cell Deficiency.- Chapter 27. T-cell Deficiency.- Chapter 28. Combined Immunodeficiency Disease.- Chapter 29. HIV Infection.- Chapter 30. Anaphylaxis.- Chapter 31. Antihistmines and corticosteroids.- Chapter 32. Bronchodialators.- Chapter 33. New asthma therapeutics.- Chapter 34. Subcutaneous Immunotherapy.- Chapter 35. Sublingual Immunotherapy.