Dr. Antoine Azar is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include allergy and immunology, asthma, immunotherapy,...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
Dr. Corinne Happel is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is allergy immunology. Dr. Happel earned her M.D. from the...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
Eric Oliver, M.D. joined the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology as an instructor of medicine in July 2015. Dr. Oliver was born and raised in South Carolina and graduated from Duke University...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
Dr. Dispenza evaluates and treats adults at the Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center located on the Bayview campus. Her clinical interests include mastocytosis and anaphylaxis. She is an active...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
Dr. Adkinson has pursued an academic career at Johns Hopkins since 1973. His research has contributed to more than 300 published papers and has been supported by numerous NIH and other grants. He...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
Dr. Saini joined faculty of the Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology immediately following his fellowship in 1997. He has served as the principal investigator and co-investigator for basic...
Baltimore (MD) - - Phone: (410) 550-2300
An 'allergist' in Baltimore is a doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases. Allergy develops after repeated exposure to the causative allergen. In Baltimore allergists need to have plenty of time available for consultation and a keen interest in allergy because it needs patience for complete treatment. There are a large number of allergists in Maryland who dedicatedly treat allergic patients and help them in quick recovery.
Allergy tests should only be done to confirm the suspected allergy detected from the history of the patient. So tests should not be used as blind searches for an allergic component to the patient's symptoms. If a patient understands the nature and causes of allergy then it will make future allergy control by the patient much more successful thus making the allergists work simple, that is to treat the patient. A person who is prone to allergies is termed as atopic. Studies have indicated that individuals who have atopy seem to have a greater risk for becoming asthmatic.
The main principle of an allergist is the therapeutic principle underlying allergy vaccination to administer controlled doses of protein substances i.e. allergens, to which the patient is allergic in order to rebuild the immune response tolerance. In this way, the allergic reaction can be reduced and potentially eliminated altogether. The immune system can resist any type of allergy thus resulting in ultimate recovery.
