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	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Floyd J. Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D. Vice Provost for Health Affairs, Howard University Hospital, and Dean, Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Floyd J. Malveaux, is a nationally recognized expert on asthma and allergic diseases and fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, and has published and lectured extensively in these areas. Dr. Malveaux?s research has been supported by grants in excess of $1 million annually from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Hasbro Children?s Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Aetna Foundation, among others. Telephone Number: 202-865-7470 E-mail: FMalveaux@howard.edu Education: MD, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC. Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing. MS, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana BS, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska Clinical practice interests: Asthma and allergic diseases. Research interests: Genetics, Epidemiology, and Pathophysiology of Asthma and Allergic Diseases. Role of Eosinophils and Lymphocytes in Inflammatory Responses. Characterization of IgE Receptors on Human Basophils and Lung Mast Cells. Health Care Delivery and Utilization in Urban Communities. Publications/Presentations: Malveaux FJ. Fletcher-Vincent S.: Environmental Risk Factors of Childhood Asthma in Urban Centers. Environ Health Perspect 1995; 103:59-62. Malveaux, FJ. The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Asthma: A genome-wide Search for Asthma Susceptibility Loci in Ethnically Diverse Populations. Nature Genetics 1997; 15:389-392. Rosenstreich D, Eggleston P, Kattan M, Baker D, Slavin R, Gergen P, Nithcell H, McNiff-Mortimer K, Lynn H, Ownby D, Malveaux, FJ. The Role of Cockroach Allergy and Exposure to Cockroach Allergen in Causing Morbidity amongst Inner-City Children with Asthma. New England J Med 1997 May 8; 336 (19): 1356-1363. Eggleston PA, Malveaux FJ, Butz AM, Huss K, Thompson L, Kolodner K, Rand CS. Medications used by children with asthma living in the inner city. Pediatrics. 1998 Mar;101(3 Pt 1):349-54.
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