MARIANNE FRIERI, MD, PHD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, CHIEF OF ALLERGY IMMUNOLOGY AT NUMC, TO SPEAK AT ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE’S 17TH ANNUAL ASTHMA, ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY UPDATE

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June 24, 2011

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MARIANNE FRIERI, MD, PHD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, CHIEF OF ALLERGY IMMUNOLOGY AT NUMC, TO SPEAK AT ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE’S 17TH ANNUAL ASTHMA, ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY UPDATE

East Meadow, NY… Marianne Frieri, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, chief of allergy and immunology at the Nassau University Medical Center, has been invited to speak at the Albany Medical College’s 17th Annual Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Update, titled “Ask the Professors” and “Approach to the Difficult to Manage Food Allergic and Intolerant Patients.” The conference will be held on July 21-22, 2011 at the Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, New York.

“I am honored to participate and to share my insights on food and skin allergies at this year’s conference. For the past 17 years Albany Medical College’s annual conferences have allowed doctors and nurses to further their knowledge regarding allergy, asthma and immunology. The conference serves as an educational tool and is extremely important due to the recent increase in patients with symptoms of these conditions.”

Albany Medical College’s Annual Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Update is in its 17th year. This is a conference that has attracted over the years, primary care providers, allergists/immunologists, otolaryngologists, pulmonologists and dermatologists from the Northeast, and continental United States. The faculty include professors at Albany Medical College and invited guests from other prestigious universities. This year, as customary, Dr. Celestin will kick off the conference with a review of the allergy/immunology literature for the year 2010-2011. Then, Dr. Pasha will discuss the management of the difficult to control asthmatic. Dr. Bonilla, the featured speaker from Children’s Hospital, Boston, will present two lectures. One dealing with the latest developments in the clinical assessment and treatment of patients with innate immunodeficiency. The other will discuss the newest agents in the treatment of hereditary and acquired angioedema. Dr. Tepper will be back discussing the clinical approach to the allergic patient and the criteria for referral to an allergy subspecialist. Drs. Frieri and Kemp will talk about food and skin allergies, respectively. A lecture on the medical management of sinusitis will be followed by another one dealing with its surgical management which will be presented by Dr. Parnes, our chief ENT surgeon. Finally, the two “Ask the Professors” sessions will give attendees ample time and opportunity to ask questions and present difficult and interesting cases from their practices.

Dr. Frieri completed her post-graduate residency training in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital an affiliate of Northwestern University Medical Center in 1980 and completed a fellowship in Allergy Immunology in the NIAID at the National Institute of Health in 1983, prior to becoming the director of clinical immunology and allergy immunology training at the Nassau University Medical Center.  She is triple board certified in internal medicine, allergy immunology and diagnostic laboratory immunology and professor of medicine and pathology at SUNY Stony Brook and on the teaching faculty for New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at NUMC.

She served on the ACAAI Board of Regents from 1994 until 1997, and on the JCAAI Board of Directors from 2001 until 2005.  She previously served on the international food allergy symposium, and currently serves on the ACAAI committees for allergy/immunology training director’s planning, basic and clinical immunology, membership recruitment, pregnancy, women in allergy and women’s health.  She was selected by ACAAI and American Medical Association for the ACGME RRC, for Allergy Immunology, 2006-2012, and by ACAAI for the US Gloria Advisory Board in 2008-2009.  She was honored with the ACAAI 2006, distinguished fellow award and 2008 distinguished service award, and received the ACAAI women in allergy award in 2002 and from the AAAAI in 2003. Dr. Frieri is past president of the Long Island Allergy and Asthma Society, 1995-97 and currently serves on the board of directors and CME committee. Her many other tributes included the CSEA women in local government recognition award and certificate of special congressional recognition over 85 publications and 2  NYS ECRIP awards for physicians from 2009-2012.

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