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Kari Nadeau, MD, Allergy & Immunology, Palo Alto, CA, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

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Allergy & Immunology • Palo Alto, CA

Nadissy Foundation Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Director of the Sean Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University

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Summary

  • Dr. Kari Nadeau is the Naddisy Foundation Endowed Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics and, Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University. She's Section Chief in Asthma and Allergy in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division at Stanford. She is the Sr. Director of Clinical Research for the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Nadeau received her MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School through the NIH MSTP program. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and a clinical fellowship at Stanford & UCSF.

    For over 30 years, she's devoted herself to understanding how environmental and immune/genetic factors affect allergies, immune tolerance & asthma. She and her team are focused in areas of global climate change and health by studying air pollution and wildfire exposures, particularly in underserved areas. As one of the globe’s foremost experts in adult and pediatric allergy, immunology, and asthma, her research is laying the groundwork for a variety of potential future therapies to prevent and cure allergies and asthma. Dr. Nadeau leads a team of specialists spanning allergy, asthma, and immunology across Stanford. She has been a pioneer in the field of Translational Allergy and Immunology, both defining the mechanism of new therapies and then translating them clinically to make transformative changes for patients and their families. She has led research in oncology, transplant, infectious diseases, COVID, and autoimmune trials and is a member of the National Steering Committee for the intramural clinical research programs at the NIH Immune Tolerance Network. She and her team have been awarded many patents and have started 4 biotech companies in the Bay Area under Stanford patents and has worked in industry to shepherd two drugs through the FDA to approval. She also is an author of the Lancet Countdown in Global Climate Change 2020 and the book: The End of Food Allergy (published 2020).

    • About the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford Univer

    Our mission is to transform the lives of our patients and families through innovative science and compassionate care.

Education & Training

  • Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University
    Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Allergy and Immunology, 1995 - 1997
  • Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center
    Children's Hospital/Boston Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 1995 - 1997
  • Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 1995
  • Haverford College
    Haverford CollegeBS, Biology, 1984 - 1988

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2000 - 2026
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 1997 - 2025
  • American Board of Allergy and Immunology Allergy & Immunology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Medical Unit Consultant White House, 2016
  • Annual Innovations Lecture United Nations, 2015
  • Grand Rounds and Pierson Lectureship University of Washington, 2015
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Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • The Public Health Impact of Parent-Reported Childhood Food Allergies in the United States  
    Ruchi S Gupta, Kari C Nadeau, AAP News
  • IgE blockade during food allergen ingestion enhances the induction of inhibitory IgG antibodies  
    Stranks AJ, Minnicozzi SC, Miller SJ, Burton OT, Logsdon SL, Spergel JM, Nadeau KC, Pongracic JA, Umetsu DT, Rachid R, MacGinnitie AJ, Schneider L, Oettgen HC, Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol, 1/4/2018
  • Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of vital wheat gluten oral immunotherapy  
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 1/4/2018
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies 
    Chapter: "The Air We Breathe: How Extreme Weather Conditions Harm Us" 
    Page 293 - 310Prunicki MM, Nadeau KCEditors: Steinberg SL, Sprigg WA.Springer International Publishing, Cham2016
  • Present Pediatric Reviews 
    Chapter: "Apoptosis and Pediatric Idiopathic Neutropenia" 
    Page 321 - 328Nadeau KC and Jeng, MBentham Science Publishers2011
  • Neonatology: Clinical Practice and Procedural Atlas 
    Chapter: "T cell immunodeficiencies of the Neonate" 
    Nadeau KEditors: Ronald Cohen, Krisa Van Meurs, David Stevenson.2011
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Lectures

  • Immunophenotyping of children with AD. 
    Rockville, MD - 1/5/2018
  • Studying Immunological Mechanisms to Try to End Food Allergy. 
    New Haven, CT - 1/1/2018
  • Mechanisms of action of IT. 
    Copenhagen, Denmark - 1/1/2018
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Other

  • How Ambient Air Pollution could cause Immune Dysregulation. 
    Nadeau K, EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers Webinar
    1/13/2012

Authored Content

  • The Public Health Impact of Parent-Reported Childhood Food Allergies in the United StatesNovember 2018

Press Mentions

  • Weeks After Ohio Train Derailment, Health Concerns Mount
    Weeks After Ohio Train Derailment, Health Concerns MountMarch 9th, 2023
  • East Palestine Residents Worry Rashes, Headaches and Other Symptoms May Be Tied to Chemicals from Train Crash
    East Palestine Residents Worry Rashes, Headaches and Other Symptoms May Be Tied to Chemicals from Train CrashFebruary 17th, 2023
  • The Medicine Is a Miracle, but Only if You Can Afford It
    The Medicine Is a Miracle, but Only if You Can Afford ItFebruary 7th, 2023
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Professional Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

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