Allergy/Immunology Fellowship

Emory ranks among the nation’s top pediatrics programs on the U.S. News & World Report list of “Best Medical School Specialty Rankings,” while Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta ranks among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report list of “Best Children’s Hospitals.” As one of the largest pediatric care providers in the country, Children’s serves as the primary pediatric teaching site for Emory University School of Medicine. Together, with more than 500 physicians holding titles at both institutions, Children’s and Emory combine their clinical and academic strengths to train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists while also facilitating leading-edge pediatric research.

The primary pediatric allergy/immunology clinic is at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Center for Advanced Pediatrics.

• Fellows have their own pediatric continuity clinic where they evaluate and follow a variety of new patients while developing a patient panel they will follow during the first and second years. Fellows have their own schedule and are the primary provider, with the attending available for supervision and feedback.
• Adult Outpatient Experiences take place at the Emory Clinic and the Grady Asthma and Allergy Clinic. Fellows also receive a dedicated community allergy/immunology experience to learn the private practice aspects of our specialty. Fellows receive training under the mentorship of Dr. Stan Fineman, MD, MBA. Dr. Fineman is an adjunct associate professor at Emory University with forty years of experience and has received national honors such as the ACAAI Gold Headed Cane Award and the AAAAI Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award.
• Pediatric Inpatient Experiences: Inpatient Service Fellows will spend time on the Pulmonology and Infectious Disease consult services, the Bone Marrow Transplant unit, as well as perform inpatients consults for Allergy/Immunology. They will perform inpatient rounds, complete consultations, communicate the care plan to the resident and attendings, provide teaching for residents, and ensure all patient care plans are carried out. In addition, fellows are encouraged to follow patients in their outpatient clinics after discharge.
• Adult inpatient consultations are performed at Emory University Hospital, located on the same campus as Egleston Hospital. Adult inpatient consultations are also performed at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Fellows solidify clinical and team leadership skills. Fellows develop research skills through conducting a project in either basic/translational laboratory investigation or clinical investigation. Each fellow develops a hypothesis-driven research project culminating in publication of a manuscript or grant proposal.

• Outpatient Clinic: During two half days continuity clinic each week the fellow monitors patient panel collected during year one.
• Inpatient Service: Fellows take progressively more responsibility for patient care for inpatient consults; with supervision and teaching of the residents and first year fellow, in consultation with the attending physician.
• Scholarly Project: The fellow identifies a mentor and laboratory, and works during the first year to develop a research plan to be implemented in the second year.

Fellows also rotate through adjacent subspecialties in both the adult and pediatric populations including dermatology, rheumatology, pulmonology, otolaryngology, and Immune Dysregulation/Bone Marrow Transplantation.