MARIANNE FRIERI, MD, PHD, TO ATTEND AND PRESENT AT THE FEDERATION OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES MEETING AS ELECTED CHAIR OF ALLERGY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
Victor F. Politi, MD, FACP, FACEP
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June 17, 2014
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MARIANNE FRIERI, MD, PHD, TO ATTEND AND PRESENT AT THE FEDERATION OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES MEETING AS ELECTED CHAIR OF ALLERGY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
East Meadow, NY……..Marianne Frieri, MD, PhD, division chief of allergy and immunology, Department of Medicine at the Nassau University Medical Center, will again attend the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) meeting this year, as elected chair of the allergy community of practice leadership committee of FOCIS. Dr. Frieri’s symposium on “Mast cell Activation Syndrome and Anaphylaxis” was selected to be presented on June 25th with Aidan Long, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, vice chair for FOCIS and Paul Greenberger, M.D professor of medicine in the division of allergy-immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who is also past president of the AAAAI.
Dr. Frieri will also present two posters on “Human Primary Bronchial Epithelial Cells With Allergen Stimulation Differentially Express Cytokines in the Presence of a Steroid and LABA or their Combination” with listed SUNY staff and Chenhsing Lin, M.D, one of NUMC’s medicine residents on “New Discovery of Pharmacological and Pathophysiological Associations Related to Various Neurologic and Endocrine Disorders.”
“I am delighted to have been invited to present a symposium and 2 posters at the FOCIS conference, along with world renowned speakers in a forum for education, collaboration and networking for physicians, researchers, fellows, post doctoral, trainees and industry partners in the broad field of clinical and translational immunology,” said Dr. Frieri prior to leaving for the FOCIS meeting.
FOCIS’s mission is to improve human health by fostering interdisciplinary approaches to both understand and treat immune-based diseases. FOCIS has grown to 53 Member Societies that collectively represent over 65,000 basic and clinician scientists. The FOCIS meeting brings together these researchers and clinicians working in more than 30 clinical specialties and provides them with a forum to gather and share the latest findings, breakthroughs and therapies related to human disease. The FOCIS concept posits that interrelationships between fields sharing clinical immunology expertise will build a better and faster pathway to improve knowledge that leads to new therapies for inflammatory and immunologic diseases.
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