A founder and
continuing force
behind the Asthma
and Allergy
Foundation of
America, and
the St. Louis
Chapter, he
has devoted
considerable
time to teaching
the public about
these diseases.
He is often
sought out by
the media to
explain the
causes, symptoms
and treatments
for allergies.
Director of
the allergy
and immunology
division of
Saint Louis
University School
of Medicine
since 1965,
he established
the divisions
training program
in 1968 and
remained as
its director
until 1997.
Dr. Slavin
is a masterful
teacher and
perennial favorite
among students
and physicians
alike, says
Joseph R. Anderson,
M.D., a former
student. He
is literally
in demand throughout
the world for
his entertaining,
insightful and
eloquent lectures
and is widely
considered by
the most respected
allergists and
immunologists
throughout the
world as the
most gifted
clinician in
the field.
Dr. Slavins
outreach is
based on a distinguished
career of laboratory
research. He
was the first
in the western
hemisphere to
recognize adults
with allergic
bronchopulmonary
aspergillosis
and the first
to describe
this disease
in a child.
His clinical
and laboratory
research has
supported these
findings, and
he has added
significantly
to the body
of scientific
knowledge of
sinusitis, asthma,
rhinitis, the
relationship
of the upper
and lower airways,
fungal sinusitis,
hypersentitivity
lung disease
and uremia.
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