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Clinical Office Address:

Columbia Presbyterian/Eastside

16 East 60^th Street

New York, NY 10022

Phone: 212-326-8410

Fax: 212-326-5516

Second Clinical Office:

Parkview Plaza, East Wing

1200 East Ridgewood Avenue

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Phone: 201-670-8100

Fax: 201-670-4615

ms53@columbia.edu

Marjorie Lee Slankard, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Clinical and Research Interests: Asthma, Urticaria, and Angioedema

Education:

B.A., University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri,1967
M.D., University of Missouri Medical School, Columbia, Missouri, 1971
Intern, University of Missouri
Residency, The New York Hospital - Cornell University Medical College
Fellowship, The Rockefeller University, Immunology (Lab of Dr. Henry Kunkel)
Fellowship, Cornell University Medical College, Allergy and Immunology

Honors:

President, NY Allergy and Asthma Society, 2004-2005

Listed in New York Magazine’s “The Best Doctors in New York,” 1998 -

American Board of Internal Medicine Diplomate, 1974

American Board of Allergy and Immunology, Diplomate, 1977

Fellow, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Fellow, American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Executive Committee, New York Allergy and Asthma Society

Pi Mu Epsilon

Alpha Omega Alpha

Insect Sting Committee, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, 2005-2007

Listed in Guide to Top Doctors’ “America’s Top-Rated Physicians,” 1999

Selected for publication in “America’s Top Doctors,” The Nation’s

Leading Medical Specialists, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Guide, 2001-2005

Selected for publication in “Top Doctors,” New York Metro Area, A

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Guide, 1997 - 2005

Selected Publications:

1. Kumar, R., Wagner, M., Slankard, M.L., and Abelman, W.A.,: Left and right ventricular pressures in mice. J. Applied Phys., 30:424, 1971.
2. Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., and Siskind, G.W.,: Studies on the control of antibody synthesis. XIII. Preferential depletion of precursors of high affinity antibody secreting cells by specific immunoadsorbents. Immunology, 38:145, 1979.
3. Sun, A.S., Holland, J.F., Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., and Ohnuma, T.,: 5’-Nucleotidase activity in permanent human lymphoid cell lines: implication for cell proliferation and aging in vitro. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 714:530, 1982.
4. Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Holland, J.F., Gordon, R.E., Becker, J., and Ohnuma, T.,: Cytotoxic effect of an autologous long term T cell line in a patient with malignant melanoma: adoptive autoimmunotherapy. Cancer, 53 (No. 5): 1066, 1984.

INVITED ARTICLES:

1.      Slankard, M.L.: Feeling the burn. Treating GERD becomes more prominent in respiratory care. Advance for Managers of Respiratory Care. 15 (3):44,2006.

REVIEWER:

1.      Contact Dermatitis, A Practice Parameter, from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. In process, 2006.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

1. Slankard, M.L.: Baker’s asthma. In: Claude Frazier, ed., Occupational asthma. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., publisher, 1980.

ABSTRACTS:

1. Slankard, M.L., and Siskind, G.W.: Recovery of immune reactivity after depletion of specific antigen reactive cells. Fed. Proceedings, 35:351, 1976.

2. Slankard, M.L., Siskind, G.W., and Dworetzky, M.: Flunisolide nasal spray in perennial rhinitis: Effectiveness and nasal fungal growth. J.Allergy Clin. Immunol., 57:242, 1976.

3. Sun, A.S., Holland, J.F., Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., and Ohnuma, T.,: 5’-Nucleotidase levels in permanent human lymphoid cell lines and its implication for cell proliferation. Clinical Research, 26:633A, 1978.

4. Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Ohnuma, T., and Holland, J.F.,: Cytotoxic effect of normal human T-lymphocytes in culture on human melanoma cells in vitro. Cancer Research, 26:633A, 1978.

5. Valinsky, J., Reich, E., Haghbin, M., Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Ohnuma, T., and Holland, J.F.,: Merocyanine 540 staining of peripheral leukocytes from leukemic remission patients. Blood, 52:294, 1978.

6. Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Holland, J.F., Gordon, R.E., Becker, J., and Ohnuma, T.: Cytotoxic effect of an autologous long term T-cell line (LTTC) in a patient with malignant melanoma: Adoptive immunotherapy. Proceedings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 21:374, 1980.

7. Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Holland, J.F., Ohnuma, T., and Gordon, R.E., : Human long-term T-cell line (LTTC) cytotoxic for human melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo. Abstracts of the 4th International Congress of Immunology, 1980. Abst. #9-8-16.

8. Lo, R.J., Ohnuma, T., Jodidio, A., Slankard-Chahinian, M.L., Cheung, T., Holland, J.F., and Wasserman, L.R.,: Effect of Interferon (IF),Methanol-extraction residue of BCG (MER), Corynebacterium parvum (Cp), and autologous lymphocytes (ly) on monocyte-mediated cytolysis of human melanoma cells (t). Proceedings of the American Association for

Cancer Research, 22:289, 1981.

9. Slankard, M.L. Anaphylaxis secondary to bacitracin zinc ointment.  Submitted to American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, August 1999. Presented to American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, November 1999.

MONOGRAPH:

60th Anniversary Monograph of the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society of Greater New York. Slankard, M.L., ed. 10/24/97.