Allergy and Asthma

Allergy is a unique area of medicine that is not taught as a single subject in medical or allied health schools. Therefore learning the fundamentals of this distinctive area of medicine requires gathering information from various disciplines. This is because the allergic diseases affect various organ systems and the practice of a wide range of physicians such as Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialists, pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, dermatologists, and ophthalmologists, among others; all encounter patients with such problems.  As knowledge in this area of medicine grows, clinicians and trainees need a resource to learn the basics as well as intermediate and advanced concepts and strategies.   This title is intended to serve as a single comprehensive reference covering all needed knowledge of allergic diseases. 

The authors of this work will be comprised of some of the foremost experts in the field, coming primarily from the United States.  They will cover their topics using a structured, consistent format from chapter to chapter to provide continuity and uniformity to the work.  This reference will not only provide basic knowledge on diagnosing and treating allergies, but will go beyond the basics and also emphasize using a systematic approach to working up and treating a patient.  Ample numbers of tables and illustrations for better visualization of the complicated areas will be provided in each chapter.  Discussion about trends, current research, and future research directions for each disorder will be incorporated as warranted.  Summary sections will be used.  Following initial publication, new information to the existing chapters, or entirely new chapters, will be added as necessary via continuous updating. 

The audience for this reference work includes physicians and residents in allergy and immunology, pulmonology, ENT, gastroenterology, dermatology, ophthalmology and other specialties; physician assistants, nursing professionals, allergy fellows (in-training), primary care providers, and allied health personnel are also part of the audience.  Medical students will also find the work of value, as will researchers in a range of areas especially immunology and food science.  

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 American Osteopathic College of Allergy and Immunology and faculty members 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 newspaper and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has spoken locally and nationally on Allergy and Immunology and has appeared on local televisions and the Fox News. Dr. Mahmoudi is currently the Editor-in Chief of the peer reviewed journal “SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine”, a Nature-Springer publisher.