Brigham and Women’s Hospital Board Review

Prepare for ABIM board exams, enhance your knowledge and improve patient care with our allergy and immunology board review.

Stay Current in this Rapidly Changing Specialty

This CME program focuses on the key topics in allergy and immunology and helps you stay updated. The Brigham Board Review in Allergy and Immunology includes case-based lectures on topics like ocular allergies, food allergy, anaphylaxis, hereditary angioedema, immunotherapy, environmental allergens, etc. It will help you to:

• Prepare for certification and recertification examinations
• Refresh your knowledge on the various allergic and immunologic diseases
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Assess the latest therapeutic strategies along with their risks and benefits

QUICK FACTS

Provider: Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Course Director:
Mariana Castells, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Allergy and
Clinical Immunology Training Program
Division of Rheumatology
Immunology and Allergy
Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Course Director:
The Brigham Board Review
Distance Learning Series
Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MBA
Senior Associate Dean for Global and
Continuing Education
Director, Master in Medical Sciences in
Clinical Investigation (MMSCI) Program
Harvard Medical School
Director, Office of
Postgraduate Medical Education
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

• T Cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells – Patrick Brennan, MD, PhD

• B Cells and Antibody Formation – Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

• Lipid Mediators in Allergic Disease – K. Frank Austen, MD

• Regulatory T Cells – Talal Chatila, MD

• Dendritic Cells – Nora A. Barrett, MD

• Mucosal Immunity and the Microbiome – Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD

• Chemokines – Andrew Luster, MD, PhD

• Neutrophil Biology – Peter Newburger, MD

• Complement and Cryoproteins – Mandakolathur Murali, MD, MBBS

• Diagnosis and Management of Asthma – Christopher H. Fanta, MD

• Pathophysiology of Asthma and PFTs/Cases – Nora A. Barrett, MD

• Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease – Katherine N. Cahill, MD

• The Pharmacogenetics of Asthma – Kelan Tantisira, MD, MPH

• Atopic Dermatitis – Lynda Schneider, MD

• Contact Dermatitis and Patch Testing – Pamela L. Scheinman, MD

• Basophils – Caroline L. Sokol, MD, PhD

• Mast Cell Biology – Lora Bankova, MD

• Eosinophil Biology and Hypereosinophilia – Peter F. Weller, MD

• Primary Immunodeficiencies – T Cells – Francisco Bonilla, MD

• Primary Immunodeficiencies – B Cells – Rima Rachid, MD

• Genomic Diagnostics and Discovery for Immunodeficiency – Janet Chou, MD

• CVID and Autoimmunity in PID – Jolan Walter, PhD, MD

• Introduction to Biostatistics – Margee Louisias, MD

• Food Allergy – Jessica Savage, MD

• Eosinophilic GI Disorders – Wayne G. Shreffler, MD, PhD

• Treatment of Asthma in Children – T. Bernard Kinane, MD, MBBCH, BAO

• Ocular Allergies – C. Stephen Foster, MD

• Anaphylaxis – Mariana Castells, MD, PhD

• Approach to Angioedema – Aleena Banerji, MD

• Hereditary Angioedema – Aleena Banerji, MD

• Mastocytosis and MCAS – Cem Akin, MD, PhD

• Medication Therapy of Asthma and Allergic Diseases – Lakiea Wright, MD

• Immunotherapy – David I. Hong, MD

• IgE: Structure and Function – Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD

• Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Therapy – Sung-Yun Pai, MD

• Urticaria – Karen Hsu Blatman, MD

• Practical Approach to ß-Lactam Allergy – Sarita U. Patil, MD

• In Vivo and In Vitro Testing for Hypersensitivity – Morris F. Ling, MD

• Drug Allergy Classification and Evaluation – Ana Dioun Broyles, MD

• Drug Allergy – Other Common Drugs – Sarita U. Patil, MD

• Desensitizations for Drug HSR – Mariana C. Castells, MD, PhD

• Rhinitis and Sinusitis – Daniel Hamilos, MD

• Common Immune-Mediated Rashes? – Arash Mostaghimi, MD

• Environmental Allergens – Joyce T. Hsu, MD

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Summarize and demonstrate increased overall knowledge of allergy and immunologic diseases
• Identify and improve knowledge and clinical competence-based practice gaps in allergy and immunology
• Compare pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies and their risks and benefits
• Apply the knowledge and strategies gained through participation in this activity to the board exam and daily practice

Intended Audience

Fellows/trainees and practicing allergists/immunologists and other professional affiliates (internists with an interest in allergy/immunology) who are preparing to take ABIM Board Review or recertification examinations or who seek CME in attempt to improve patient care.