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Gordon R. Bloomberg, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics

Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine
Patient Oriented Research

Dr Bloomberg is a member of the Division of Allergy, Immunology 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 was for several years, 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 St Louis for 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, 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
  2. Bloomberg G, Chen E. The relationship of psychologic stress with childhood asthma, In: Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America. 2005; 83;83-105
  3. Strunk RC, Bloomberg GR. Omalizumab for asthma. New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 354:24.
  4. Jost B, Wedner HK, Bloomberg GR. Penicillin skin testing in the pediatric outpatient setting. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology 2006; 97:807-812.
  5. Bloomberg GR, Banister, C., Sterkel, R., Epstein, J., Bruns, J., Swerczek, L., Wells, S., Yan, Yan., Garbutt, JM. Socioeconomic, Family, and Pediatric Practice Factors Affecting the Level of Asthma Control, Pediatrics 2009; 123:829-835.
  6. Gold DR, Bloomberg GR, Cruikshank W, Visness CM, Schwarz J, Kattan M, O’Connor GT, Wood RA, Burger MS, Wright RJ, Witter RJ, Lee-Paritz A, Sperling R, Sadovsky Y, Togias A, Gern JE. Parental Characteristics Somatic Fetal Growth, and Season of Birth Influence Innate and Adaptive Cord Blood Cytokine Responses. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2009; 124:1078-87.
  7. Bloomberg GR. Recurrent wheezing illness in preschool-aged children: assessment and management in primary care practice. Postgraduate Medicine 2009; 121(5):48-55.
  8.  Kattan M, Kumar R, Bloomberg GR, Mitchell HE, Calatroni A, Gergen PJ, Kercsmar CM, Visness CM, Matsui EC, Steinbach SF, Szefler SJ, Sorkness CA, Morgan WJ, Teach SJ, Gan VN. Asthma control, adiposity, and adipokines among inner-city adolescents. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2010; 125:584-92.
  9. Bloomberg GR. The exacerbation component of impairment and risk in pediatric asthma. Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2010; 10:155-60.
  10. Wright RJ, Visness CM, Calatroni A, Grayson M, Gold DR, Sandel M, Lee-Parritz A, Wood R, Kattan M, Bloomberg GR, Burger M, Togias A, Witter F, Sperling R, Sadovsky Y, Gern J. Prenatal maternal stress and cord blood innate and adaptive cytokine responses: The Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma Study (URECA). American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2010;182:25-33.
  11. Wood RA, Bloomberg GR, Kattan M, Conroy K, Sandel MT, Dresen A, Gergen PJ, Gold DR, Schwarz JC, Visness CM, Gern JE. Relationships among environmental exposures, cord blood cytokine responses, allergy, and wheeze at 1 year of age in an inner-city birth cohort (Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma study). J Allergy Clin Immunol 2011;127:913-9.
  12. Bloomberg GR.  The influence of environment, as represented by diet and air opllution, upon incidence and prevalence of wheezing illnesses in young children. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2011;11:144.
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