Allergic and Immunologic Diseases

<p>Section A: Background<br>1. A history of allergy and immunology<br>2. The development of clinical laboratory methods in the diagnosis of human disease<br>3. Discoveries with significant impact in how we diagnosis and treat diseases<br>4. Taking an allergy and immunology history and physical<br>5. Basic genetics and epigenetics for the immunologist and allergist<br>6. Immunological studies – utility and limitations<br>7. Future developments and how they will impact the practice of medicine</p> <p>Section B: Diagnosis of allergic diseases<br>8. Epicutaneous and intradermal skin testing<br>9. The interpretation of epicutaneous and intradermal skin testing for foods<br>10. The use of in vitro methods to evaluate allergy<br>11. Food challenges<br>12. Testing for the physical urticarias<br>13. Techniques to evaluate asthma<br>14. Drug allergy testing<br>15. Sinus diseases and rhinolaryngoscopy<br>16. Approach to the rash from an allergy/immunology perspective<br>17. Patch testing and the evaluation of contact allergy<br>18. Skin biopsies and their utility<br>19. The evaluation of mast cell related disorders<br>20. The evaluation of a patient with urticaria and angioedema<br>21. Evaluating the patient with eosinophilia or eosinophilic disease<br>22. Unproven and controversial testing methods in allergy and immunology</p> <p>Section C: Evaluation of immune function<br>23. Testing for primary immunodeficiency<br>24. Testing the innate immune system<br>25. Testing the adaptive immune system<br>26. Periodic fever syndromes and autoinflammatory diseases<br>27. Immunological dysfunction disorders<br>28. The AIDS workup<br>29. Basic workup for autoimmune diseases<br>30. Neuroimmunology<br>31. Genetic testing</p> <p>Section D: Treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases<br>32. Immunotherapy to environmental allergens<br>33. Drug allergy desensitization methods<br>34. Oral, sublingual and dermatologic immunotherapy to food allergens<br>35. Conventional medications for the treatment of allergic diseases<br>36. The new biologicals in allergy<br>37. Action plans and quality of life evaluations<br>38. The treatment of atopic dermatitis<br>39. The recognition and treatment of anaphylaxis<br>40. Treatment of venom and other insect allergies<br>41. Drugs and treatment modalities for itch and hives<br>42. Integrative medicine in allergy and immunology</p> <p>Section E: Treatment of immunological disorders<br>43. Treatment of the patient with PIDD<br>44. Management of autoinflammatory syndromes and periodic fevers<br>45. Immunomodulatory pharmaceuticals for the treatment of immune dysfunction<br>46. Bone marrow transplant for the patient with monogenic PIDD<br>47. The immunological management of the solid-organ transplant patient<br>48. Apheresis<br>49. Pharmaceuticals for AIDS<br>50. Gene therapy</p>