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The Section on Allergy and Immunology was one selected for review. Final selection of the articles to of the first sections formed (1948) within the Amer- be included was made by the Editor. ican Academy of Pediatrics. It now has approxi- The 1997 to 1998 journals chosen for review were: mately 600 members whose objective is to improve Allergy, American Journal of Asthma and Allergy for the care of children with asthma, , and im- Pediatricians, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Med- munologic disorders. icine, American Journal of , American Journal of The Section aims to serve as a major informational Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Annals of Al- and educational resource for the members of the lergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Annals of Internal Med- American Academy of Pediatrics. The section spon- icine, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Archives of In- sors a 2-day scientific program and symposium at ternal Medicine, British Medical Journal, Cell, Chest, each annual meeting of the American Academy of Clinical and Experimental Allergy, Clinical Pharmacol- Pediatrics, as well as the annual “Synopsis Book.” ogy and Therapeutics, Critical Care Medicine, European Other educational activities of the Section include Respiratory Journal, Immunology, Journal of Allergy and position papers for the American Academy of Pedi- Clinical Immunology, Journal of the American Medical atrics, informational pamphlets for patients, and vis- Association, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of iting professorships for training programs that do Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, not have a division of pediatric allergy and immu- Journal of Immunology, Journal of Infectious Diseases, nology. In addition, in 1999 the Section sponsored a Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of Pharmacology and Exper- continuing education course for pediatricians on al- imental Therapeutics, Lancet, Nature, New England Jour- lergy, asthma, and immunology. nal of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Immu- The membership of the Section on Allergy and nology, Pediatric Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Immunology consists of Fellows of the American Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Pediatric Pulmonol- Academy of Pediatrics who have been certified by ogy, and Science. the American Board of Pediatrics and by the Amer- The reviewers were: Allen Adinoff, MD, Aurora, ican Board of Allergy and Immunology. Any and all CO; James R. Banks, MD, Arnold, MD; Mary E. qualified American Academy of Pediatrics Fellows Bollinger, DO, Baltimore, MD; Bradley E. Chipps, are invited to apply for membership to the Section. If MD, Sacramento, CA; Joseph A. Church, MD, Los interested, please write to: Angeles, CA; Stanley P. Galant, MD, Orange, CA; Duane M. Gels, MD, Arnold, MD; James E. Gern, Director, Division of Sections MD, Madison, WI; Leon Greos, MD, Aurora, CO; American Academy of Pediatrics Russell Hopp, DO, Omaha, NE; John M. James, MD, 141 Northwest Point Boulevard PO Box 927 Fort Collins, CO; Stacie M. Jones, MD, Little Rock, Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927 AR; Thad H. Joos, MD, Detroit, MI; Alan Kamada, PharmD, Research Triangle Park, NC; Michael S. The reviews contained in the 1999 synopsis were Kaplan, MD, Los Angeles, CA; John M. Kelso, MD, written by Fellows of the American Academy of San Diego, CA; Roger Kobayashi, MD, Omaha, NE; Pediatrics Section on Allergy and Immunology, Frederick E. Leikly, MD, Indianapolis, IN; Robert guest reviewers, and fellows in allergy and immu- Lemanske, MD, Madison, WI; Andrew Liu, MD, nology training programs who contributed reviews Denver, CO; Christopher Randolph, Waterbury, CT; with their mentors. Martin I. Sachs, PhD, DO, Rochester, MN; Hugh A. The Editor selected the journals to be reviewed Sampson, MD, New York, NY; Scott Sicherer, MD, based on the likelihood that they would contain ar- New York, NY; Kathleen Sullivan, MD, PhD, Phila- ticles on allergy and immunology that would be of delphia, PA; Stanley J. Szefler, MD, Denver, CO; and value and interest to the pediatrician. Each journal Robert A. Wood, MD, Baltimore, MD. was assigned to a voluntary reviewer who was re- The Editorial Committee would like to express sponsible for selecting articles and writing reviews of thanks to the Schering Corporation for their contin- their articles. Only articles of original research were ued support of this important educational program.

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Pediatrics is the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. A monthly publication, it has been published continuously since 1948. Pediatrics is owned, published, and trademarked by the American Academy of Pediatrics, 345 Park Avenue, Itasca, Illinois, 60143. Copyright © 1999 by the American Academy of Pediatrics. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 1073-0397.

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