Clinical Services
The Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology includes a team whose focus is allergic and immunologic diseases, and immune deficiency diseases. Members are board certified in Internal Medicine and in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Specialized diagnostic and clinical care is provided for allergy, clinical immunology, and immunodeficiencies. Examples include urticaria and angioedema, drug and food allergies, vasculitis, and autoimmune diseases. The newly established Yale Allergy and Sinus Center provides multidisciplinary care in conjunction with the Section of Otolaryngology. Management of complicated cases is discussed during weekly conferences.
Among special services offered by this section are the following:
- Guidance with medications for the allergic reactive nose
- Allergy desensitization shots for allergic rhinitis, asthma, and hymenoptera stinging insect hypersensitivity
- Intravenous immunoglobulin (gamma globulin) therapy
- Immunosuppressive therapy including immuran, cytoxan, cyclosporin, and corticosteroids
- Optimal immunopharmicotherapy for asthma
Clinical Faculty
Philip W. Askenase, MD
Special interests: allergic rhinitis and asthma; urticaria and angioedema; systemic anaphylaxis
F. Ida Hsu, MD
Special interests: allergic rhinitis and asthma; urticaria and angioedema; food allergy; drug allergy; systemic anaphylaxis
Fred S. Kantor, MD
Special interests: vasculitis; immunodeficiency; allergic rhinitis and asthma; systemic anaphylaxis
Anita Kohli-Pamnani, MD
Special interests: allergy and immunology
Christina Price, MD
Special interests: immunodeficiency including common variable immune deficiency (CVID), selective antibody deficiency and secondary immune deficiency; urticaria (hives); food allergy; drug allergy
Contact information
(203) 785-4143 - Office (New Patient Appointments)
(203) 785-4138 - Clinic (Returning Patient Appointments)
Location
Yale Allergy & Immunology
Temple Medical Center
40 Temple St
1st Floor, Suite 1A
New Haven CT 06510
