Andrea Apter
Andrea Apter – Penn Allergy and Immunology University City

Andrea Apter, MD is a Professor of Medicine, in the Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. She is board-certified in both internal medicine and allergy and immunology and holds a Masters Degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. At Penn she is an Associate Scholar of the Center of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and a past- Director of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.

She has served on the FDA Pulmonary Allergy Drug Advisory and Allergenic Products Advisory Committees and NIH study sections and DSMBs. Dr. Apter’s research concentrates on eliminating health disparities focusing on asthma and barriers to adherence, as well as the patient-provider relationship, and the impact of the health system and the social environment on patient health. In 2000 Dr. Apter received a Mentored Clinical Research Scientist Award (K23) from the NHLBI to study modifiable predictors of adherence. This project has resulted in several publications and led to the awarding of an R01, an intervention study, in 2005, “Individualized Interventions to Improve Asthma.” She received a second career development award on health literacy. These awards led to interventions studies including her current R18 ( A Patient Advocate to improve real-world asthma management for inner city adults and PCORI (AS-1307-05218) grant: “Using IT to improve access, communication, and asthma in African-American and Hispanic/Latino adults”. These studies have led to a focus on how healthcare providers, patient stakeholders and administrators can work together to improve health outcomes in undeserved audlts . Asthma is used a s a model of a chronic disease. Many of the patient shave comorbidities and histories of exposure to tobacco.

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Adverse Drug Reaction, Allergies, Anaphylaxis, Angioedema, Asthma, Drug Allergy, Food Allergy, Hives (Urticaria), Nasal Polyps, Rhinitis (Nasal Inflammation), Sinus Infections (Sinusitis)