In My Opinion—Interview with the Expert

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A NDREW H. Liu, M.D., is the Training Program Director and an Associate Professor in Pediatric Allergy & Immunology at the National Jewish Medical & Research Center and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center inDenver. He serves as the Pediatric Asthma & Allergy Consultant to the Health & Hospitals System for the City & County of Denver. In addition, he runs teaching clinics at National Jewish, Denver Health, and The Children's Hospital of Denver. Dr. Liu researches the immune development underlying asthma and allergies in young children, seeking early intervention strategies for therapy and prevention. He is an investigator for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in several research programs in this field. These include a recent NIH Career Development Award on "Endotoxin and Asthma Prevention in Young Children," and several NIH-funded intervention studies for childhood asthma: Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP); Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS); and Prevention of Early Asthma in Kids study (PEAK). Dr. Liu has written articles for such peer-reviewed journals as The Lancet, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the American Association of Immunologists. Dr. Liu received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his Internship and Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He completed his Fellowships in Allergy & Immunology and in Clinical & Laboratory Immunology at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.