Robert A. Wood, MD

• Director of Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
• Chief, Eudowood Division of Allergy and Immunology

Professor of Pediatrics

Johns Hopkins Children's Center

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns-hopkins-childrens-center/_documents/_cvs/robert-wood-cv.pdf

• Dirty Baby, Health Baby? Early Filth May Reduce Allergies, NBC News (June 6, 2014)

Allergens, Asthma, Food allergy, Food hypersensitivity, Milk allergy, Peanut allergy

Dr. Wood and his team of experts have extensive experience in conducting clinical and laboratory research in asthma and allergy, including in the development of novel allergy treatments.

He is currently serving as principle investigator for more than 20 research studies, all aimed at addressing the critical challenges of asthma and food allergies.

Learn more about Dr. Wood’s many research activities and accomplishments.

• Altman AM, Camargo CA Jr, Simons FE, Lieberman P, Sampson HA, Schwartz LB, Zitt FM, Collins C, Tringale M, Wilkinson M, Wood RA. “Anaphylaxis in America: A national physician survey.” J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Mar;135(3):830-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.10.049. Epub 2015 Jan 7. No abstract available.

• Burks AW, Wood RA, Jones SM, Sicherer SH, Fleischer DM, Scurlock AM, Vickery BP, Liu AH, Henning AK, Lindblad R, Dawson P, Plaut M, Sampson HA; for the Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR). “Sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy: Long-term follow-up of a randomized multicenter trial.” J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Feb 3. pii: S0091-6749(14)03745-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.12.1917. [Epub ahead of print]

• Gorelik M, Narisety SD, Guerrerio AL, Chichester KL, Keet CA, Bieneman AP, Hamilton RG, Wood RA, Schroeder JT, Frischmeyer-Guerrerio PA. “Suppression of the immunologic response to peanut during immunotherapy is often transient.”J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Dec 24. pii: S0091-6749(14)01646-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.11.010. [Epub ahead of print]

• Hong X, Hao K, Ladd-Acosta C, Hansen KD, Tsai HJ, Liu X, Xu X, Thornton TA, Caruso D, Keet CA, Sun Y, Wang G, Luo W, Kumar R, Fuleihan R, Singh AM, Kim JS, Story RE, Gupta RS, Gao P, Chen Z, Walker SO, Bartell TR, Beaty TH, Fallin MD, Schleimer R, Holt PG, Nadeau KC, Wood RA, Pongracic JA, Weeks DE, Wang X. “Genome-wide association study identifies peanut allergy-specific loci and evidence of epigenetic mediation in US children.” Nat Commun. 2015 Feb 24;6:6304. doi: 10.1038/ncomms7304.

• Narisety SD, Frischmeyer-Guerrerio PA, Keet CA, Gorelik M, Schroeder J, Hamilton RG, Wood RA. “A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study of sublingual versus oral immunotherapy for the treatment of peanut allergy.” J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Dec 18. pii: S0091-6749(14)01600-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.11.005. [Epub ahead of print]

• Bret Ratner Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Research Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1/1/12
• Founder's Award, The Food Allergy Network, 1/1/98
• Young Investigator Award, American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, 1/1/98
• Thomas Van Metre Award, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, 1/1/97
• Harriet Lane Fellowship Award, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 1/1/97
• Geigy Award, American College of Allergy and Immunology, 1/1/87

• The American Academy of Allergy and Immunology
• American College of Allergy and Immunology
• The American Academy of Pediatrics

• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Secretary/Treasurer, 1/1/16
• Pediatric Allergy, Editor, 1/1/00
• Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Deputy editor, 1/1/98
• Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Editorial board, 1/1/86
• The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Editorial board, 1/1/12