NUMC’S MARIANNE FRIERI, MD, PHD, TO ATTEND AND PRESENT AT THE FEDERATION OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES MEETING

Victor F. Politi, MD, FACP, FACEP                                                                   Michael B. Mirotznik

President/CEO                                                                                                       Chairman, Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 15, 2016

PRESS CONTACT:

Shelley Lotenberg

shelley@numc.edu

516-572-6055

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 chair of the allergy community of practice leadership committee of FOCIS. Dr. Frieri will present a Symposium on June 22, 2016 on “Adult and Pediatric Immune Deficiency and Risk of Malignancy” and will also present four posters with four NUMC department of medicine residents on “The Role of Biologic Therapy in SLE: Current and Future Trends”; “Chronic Myelogeous Leukemia Treatment. A Review” ;” A Case Report of Thyroid Cancer with Lung Metastasis’; A Rare Case of Stiff Person Syndrome Manifesting in a Patient with CVID; “Worsening Asthma in a Patient with a History of Sarcoidosis”

Victor F. Politi, MD, FACP, FACEP, NUMC’s President/CEO, indicated: Congratulations to Dr. Frieri and the four medicine residents upon being invited to present at the FOCIS conference. It is a unique educational opportunity that will serve our residents well in the coming years.”

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.

“I am delighted to have been invited to present a symposium and 4 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.

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