Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Division of Allergy and Immunology

Patient Care

• Consultation Services (University and VA Hospitals)
  • Atopic and Other Hypersensitivity Diseases
  • Asthma
  • Angioedema
• Drug Desensitization
  • Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Immunodeficiency Evaluation and Management
  • General Allergy and Immunology

• General Allergy-Immunology Clinics (University and VA Hospitals)
• Consultations (University and VA Hospitals)
• Allergen Extract and Immunotherapy Service
• Methacholine Bronchoprovocation Laboratory
• Primary Immunodeficiency
• Cellular Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory
• Complement Laboratory
• Latex Hypersensitivity Evaluation and Management

Education

• Introduction to Clinical Medicine
• Interdisciplinary Immunology Graduate Program
• Medical Student Teaching: M1, M2, M4
• Medical Student (M4) Rotations
  • Clinical Allergy and Immunology
  • Immunopathology (with Department of Pathology)
• Resident Rotations
  • Internal Medicine
  • Family Practice
• Fellowship Training Program
• Conferences
  • Allergy-Immunology Grand Rounds
  • Allergy-Immunology Research Seminar
  • Allergy-Immunology Core Curriculum
  • Continuing Medical Education
  • Computer Based Educational Programs
  • Visiting Lectureships

Research

• Complement
• Heparin binding proteins and peptides
• Biology and function of natural killer cells
• Thymic selection
• Effect of alcohol on the immune system
• Effect of herbicides/pesticides on the immune system
• Animal models of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Clinical Research

• hereditary angioedema
• primary immunodeficiency molecular etiology
• biological response modifier therapy
• mechanisms of “irreversible” asthma

Clinical Trials

• asthma
• allergic rhinitis
• hereditary angioedema

Outreach

Faculty

• Current Faculty and Fellow List

Administration

• Zuhair K. Ballas, M.D., Professor and Interim Director
  Director of Primary Immunodeficiency Service
  Director, University of Iowa Flow Cytometry Facility
  Director, Cellular Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory
  
• John M. Weiler, Director, University of Iowa Complement Laboratory
• Barbara A. Muller, Director, University of Iowa Ambulatory Care Services

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