Greenberger Receives Two Honors

CHICAGO --- Paul Greenberger, M.D., professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

Greenberger received the award in recognition of his service to the academy as a leader of the Education and Research Trust since 1995, as a Program Director and as a member of the Residency Review Committee.

He also was elected secretary-treasurer of the academy and will be its president in 2009.

Greenberger is a noted researcher in the areas of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, drug allergies, idiopathic anaphylaxis and severe asthma.

He has been a faculty member in the division of allergy/immunology at Feinberg since 1977, and is director of the medical school's Allergy/Immunology Fellowship Program.

Greenberger has published more than 230 manuscripts and 80 book chapters. He is co-editor of “Patterson's Allergic Diseases” and “Drug Allergy & Protocols for Management of Drug Allergies.” He also is a reviewer for several journals and was co-editor-in-chief of the journal Allergy and Asthma Proceedings for 12 years.

Greenberger is a past president of the Illinois Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians.

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