Associate Professor of Pediatrics

• Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine
• Patient Oriented Research

Dr Bloomberg is a member of the Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the the Univerisity of Illinois and resident training in pediatrics at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He entered private pediatric practice in 1963 and was called to military service in 1966 during the Viet Nam war. After serving at Madigan General Hospital at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington for two years he returned to general pediatric private practice. In 2002, Dr Bloomberg left private practice to join the full time faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in the department of Pediatrics. He is board certified by American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He is a fellow of the Amercian Academy of Pediatrics, and a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. During his time in general pediatrics, Dr Bloomberg served on several committees for St Louis Children’s Hospital and was elected as President of the Medical Staff. He was also awarded the Alumni/Faculty Award in 1999 from the School of Medicine for services to the Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital.

Dr Bloomberg’s clinical research focuses on childhood asthma, allergic disorders, and antibiotic allergic reactions. He is a co-investigator in the Childhood Asthma Management Program, and co-investigator in the Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network, all multicenter network, NIH funded, studies of childhood asthma. Currently, Dr Bloomberg is the principal investigator in the Inner City Asthma Consortium and is conducting a birth cohort study, Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma, (URECA), of the antecedents of asthma in children of low income families living in central urban areas.

Selected Publications

1. Bloomberg GR, Strunk, RC: Crisis in asthma care. Pediatric Clinics of North America 1992; 39(6):1225-1241.

2. The Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group (Co-Investigator) Bloomberg GR: Long-term effects of budesonide or nedocromil in children with asthma. N Engl J Med 2000; 343:1054-63.

3. Castro M, Schechtman KB, Halstead J, Bloomberg GR: Risk Factors for Asthma Morbidity and Mortality in a Large Metropolitan City. Journal of Asthma 2001; 38(8):625-635.

4. Bloomberg GR, Strunk RC: Prevalence of Asthma: Is the answer in our differences? Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Editorial 2002; 89:348.

5. Chen E, Bloomberg GR, Fisher EB, Jr., Strunk RC: Predictors of Repeat Hospitalization in Children with Asthma: The Role of Psychosocial and Socio-Environmental Factors. Health Psychology, 2003; 22:12.

6. Bloomberg GR, Musick J. Trinkaus K, Fischer EB Jr, Strunk RC: Hospital Readmissions for Childhood Asthma: A Ten Year Metropolitan Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2003; 167:1068-1076.

7. Bloomberg GR. MD, Chen E. PhD: The relationship of psychologic stress with childhood asthma. Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America 2005; Volume 25, Issue 1:83-105.

8. Strunk, RC, Bloomberg GR: Omalizumab for Asthma. New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 354:24.

9. Jost B, Wedner HK, Bloomberg GR: Penicillin skin testing in the pediatric outpatient setting. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, Immunology 2006; 97:807-812.