The Allergy Authority - helping you treat your allergies

Beth Corn, MD graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. She received her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York.

Dr. Corn is a distinguished faculty member and active physician. She currently is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Chief of the Asthma-Allergy Clinic, Co-Director of the Asthma Center, and Secretary of the New of York Allergy and Asthma Society.

Dr. Corn is a member of several professional organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the American College of Allergy (ACP) and the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI). She is a faculty member of the committee that promotes the best practices in allergy and asthma, a task force of the AAAAI.

Dr. Corn is dedicated to her patients and the clinical research. Her interests include: asthma, allergic rhinitis, and the treatment of women with allergic rhinitis and asthma.

Eli O. Meltzer, MD
University of California, San Diego

Dr. Meltzer was born and raised in Philadelphia. He earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and his fellowship training in allergy and clinical immunology at National Jewish Medical and Research Center.

For the last 30 years, Dr. Meltzer has been Co-Director of Allergy & Asthma Medical Group and Research Center in San Diego. During this time he has participated in nearly 500 research studies focused on various aspects of respiratory disease. He has lectured extensively and authored more than 300 scientific publications.

Dr. Meltzer is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, and past Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Children's Hospital in San Diego. In addition, he is on the faculty of the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.

Dr. Meltzer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (Distinguished Clinician Award), the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (Distinguished Fellow Award) and the American Academy of Pediatrics where he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Allergy/Immunology Section. He formerly served on the Pulmonary/Allergy Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and as president of the San Diego Allergy Society, the California Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and more recently, the Joint Council of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. He is included in the physician's directory, The Best Doctors in America.

Gillian M. Shepherd, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Gillian M. Shepherd, MD is a specialist in Allergy and Immunology. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and is an Attending at New York Presbyterian Hospital as well as a Consultant in Clinical Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. After graduating from New York Medical College, she completed a residency in Allergy and Immunology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. For the next fourteen years, she was on the full-time faculty at Cornell, directing the Allergy-Immunology Clinical Service. In 1995 she moved her clinical practice to a private office but continues to teach actively at Cornell and nationally. She has received four national teaching awards from the American College of Physicians and she is listed in America's Top Doctors (less than 1% of US M.D.'s) and in every edition of New York Magazine's Best Doctors.

Dr. Shepherd has been very involved with the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, the main international organization for her specialty. She is on the Board of Directors and chairs several committees, including oversight of all educational activities of the organization, the annual meeting and redesign of the web site. She was first elected chair of the Education and Research Trust, which awards grants to support her specialty. She is also past President of the New York Allergy Society.

Marjorie L. Slankard, MD
New York Presbyterian-Columbia

Marjorie L. Slankard, MD is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, associate attending physician and co-director of the Allergy Clinic at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Medical Center, and subspecialty Director of Allergy and Immunology at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Dr. Slankard received her B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, her M.D. from the University of Missouri Medical School, and residency at the New York Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York.

She has completed a fellowship in Immunology (lab of Dr. Henry Kunkel) at The Rockefeller University in New York, New York. She then continued her research training as a fellow at the Department of Medicine Division of Allergy and Immunology under the division director Dr. Gregory Siskind and fellowship director Dr. Murray Dworetzky at Cornell University Medical College, and then in the Department of Neoplastic Diseases at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Slankard is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and has been listed in New York Magazine's The Best Doctors in New York the last 5 years in a row.

Dr. Slankard is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and serves on the executive committee for the New York Allergy and Asthma Society. She sees patients in her allergy office in Manhattan and in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Marion Richman, MD
New York Presbyterian-Columbia

Marion Richman, MD received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She works in Washington Heights in New York City treats patients of all ages.

Dr. Richman's interests include primary care, women's medicine and maternal/child medicine.