Education

Division of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology
EDUCATION

• Fellow Profile: Alice Hoyt, MD

The division, board-certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, offers a two-year combined medicine and pediatric fellowship program. The division’s five clinical and two research faculty work directly with the fellows, each for a period of four months, giving the fellows exposure to a variety of attending management styles and patient disorders. Fellows also have opportunities to work with ongoing research programs within the division.

For the academic year 2014-2015, the division’s fellows were:

Second Year

• Carolyn Word, MD
• Erin Klaffky, MD

First Year

• Alice Williamson Hoyt, MD
• Thamiris Palacios, MD

Second-Year Fellows’ Activities

Erin Klaffky:

Posters

• Transient peanut allergy following solid organ transplant. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Houston, Texas: February 2015.
• Laminin as part of the inflammatory response in the skin. UVA Pediatric Research Day. Charlottesville, Virginia; May 2015.
• Exploring a role for laminin proteins in the pathogensis of atopic dermatitis. Aspen Allergy Conference. Aspen, Colorado: 2015.

Oral presentations

• “Laminin as part of the inflammatory response in the skin.” UVA Division of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology Swineford Conference. Charlottesville: April 2015.
• “Laminin as part of the inflammatory response in the skin.” UVA Department of Medicine Thorner-Marshall-Carey Research & Scholars Day. Charlottesville: May 2015.

Carolyn Word:

Oral Abstract

Word CR, Soto-Quiros M, Avila L, Jorge PP, Carper HT, Steinke JW, Kennedy JL, Murphy DD, Platts-Mills TAE, Heymann PW. Production of CCR4-binding chemokines in response to rhinovirus infections in asthmatic children. Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology [Special Issue: Program and Abstracts Presented at Scientific Sessions of 2015 AAAAI Annual Meeting]. 2015 (Feb);135(2Suppl):AB144. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2014.12.1409