Rajesh Kumar, MD

Attending Physician, Allergy

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Appointments & Referrals

1.800.543.7362 (1.800.KIDS DOC)

About Me

Clinical Interests: Asthma, food allergy, wheezing in eary childhood

Specialties, Programs & Conditions

Specialties:

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology >

Education & Training

Education: University of Alberta, Canada, 1992

Postgraduate Training: MSCI, Northwestern University, 2010; Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, Canada, 1999

Board Certifications: Allergy and Immunology

Professional Organizations: American Academy of Allergy; Asthma and Immunology; American College of Asthma; Allergy and Immunology; American Thoracic Society

Research

Research Interests: Asthma; lung function; early life environment

Publications

Most recent publications

Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks Nat Genet50 (1): 42-53
Breastfeeding associated with higher lung function in African American youths with asthma J Asthma0
A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome Nat Commun712522
Maternal Obesity in Pregnancy, Gestational Weight Gain, and Risk of Childhood Asthma Pediatrics134 (2): e535-e546
Dissecting childhood asthma with nasal transcriptomics distinguishes subphenotypes of disease J Allergy Clin Immunol133 (3): 670-678.e12
Genetic ancestry and its association with asthma exacerbations among African American subjects with asthma J Allergy Clin Immunol130 (6): 1302-6
Early Life Eczema, Food Introduction, and Risk of Food Allergy in Children Pediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol23 (3): 175-182
Gestational diabetes, atopic dermatitis, and allergen sensitization in early childhood J Allergy Clin Immunol124 (5): 1031-8 e1-4
Differential enzymatic activity of common haplotypic versions of the human acidic Mammalian chitinase protein J Biol Chem284 (29): 19650-8
Further replication studies of the EVE Consortium meta-analysis identifies 2 asthma risk loci in European Americans J Allergy Clin Immunol130 (6): 1294-301

Rajesh Kumar, MD

Rajesh Kumar, MD

Attending Physician, Allergy

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Appointments & Referrals

1.800.543.7362 (1.800.KIDS DOC)

About Me

Specialties, Programs & Conditions

Education & Training

Research

Publications

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