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Dr. Philip Askenase Joins the Medical Advisory Board

Dr. P AskenaseThe Board of Directors of The Mastocytosis Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Philip Askenase has accepted our invitation to join our Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Askenase is Chief, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Director of the Dana Allergy Clinic at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Askenase has expressed an interest in getting more involved in work with patients with mast cell disorders, and we are delighted to have him volunteer to serve on our board.

Dr. Askenase graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude, as an undergrad, and Yale Medical School, cum laude. He did his internship and residency in Boston, at Harvard Medical School, Thorndike Labs, and Boston City Hospital. He did post doctoral work at NIH, at London Hospital, and at Yale. He founded the Yale HIV and AIDS clinic in 1982, and the Yale Allergy and Sinus ENT Clinic in 1996. He is well published, with numerous recognitions and citations. He is a Fellow of the AAAAI.

Currently, Dr. Askenase is responsible for the training of fellows in the field of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for both adults and children. We are so fortunate to have him join the TMS Medical Advisory Board!

Respectfully submitted,
Valerie M. Slee, Vice-Chair


Medical Advisory Board


The Mastocytosis Society would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the following doctors and pharmacists for donating their time to serve on our Medical Advisory Board:


Dr. Cem Akin
Dept. of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Dr. Philip Askenase
Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Frank AustenHonorary member
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Dr. Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein Allergy Group, Cincinnati, OH

Dr. Joseph Butterfield
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Dr. Mariana Castells
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Dr. Luis Escribano
Hospital Virgen del Valle, Toledo, Spain

Dr. Norton J. Greenberger
Brigham & Womens Hospital, Boston, MA

Dr. Richard Horan
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Dr. Philip Miner
University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK

Dr. Larry Schwartz
Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Dr. Theoharis Theoharides
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Dr. Peter Valent
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Srdan Verstovsek
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Page last updated: September 12, 2008

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