Department of Internal Medicine

Allergy-Immunology Faculty

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Hal B. Richerson, M.D.
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Richerson's clinical interests include the evaluation and treatment of hypersensitivity, immune-mediated and immunodeficiency diseases, and a continuing interest in general internal medicine. Diseases of special interest include bronchial asthma, dysproteinemias, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, syndromes associated with eosinophilia, and common variable immunodeficiency and related states. Research activities are directed primarily toward studies of pathogenetic mechanisms in immunologic lung diseases and immunologic/tolerogenic responses to inhaled and ingested antigens in animal models and in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma in man.

Honors, Awards, and Organizations

• Alpha Omega Alpha
• American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, Fellow
• American Association of Immunologists
• Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine and Board of Allergy and Immunology
• ACGME Residence Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology, 1980-85 Vice Chairman, 1984-85
• American College of Physicians, Fellow
• American Thoracic Society, Board of Directors, 1981-82 Nominating Committee, 1988-90
• Association for the Advancement of Science
• Central Society for Clinical Research, Councilor, 1982-84
• Diplomate, Diagnostic Laboratory immunology
• Editorial Board: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1976-81
• NHLBI, NIH Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee, 1983-87
• NIH General Clinical Research Centers Committee, 1989-1993
• Veterans Administration Merit Review Board in Respiration Member, 1981-84
• Recipient, Distinguished Clinician Award of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Representative Publications

1. Muller, B.A., Leick C.A., Smith, R.M., Suelzer, M.T., and Richerson, H.B.: Comparisons of Specific and Nonspecific Bronchoprovocation in Subjects with Asthma, Rhinitis, and Healthy Subjects. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., 91:758-772, 1993.
2. Chan-Yeung, M., Harber, P., Bailey, W., Balmes, J., Barnhart, S., Hargreave, F.E., Malo, J.L., Reed, C., and Richerson, H.: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Impairment Disability in Patients with Asthma. Am. Rev. Respir. Dis., 147:1056-61, 1993.
3. Muller, B.A., Leick C.A., Suelzer, M.T., Piyamahunt, A., and Richerson, H.B.: Prognostic Value of Methacholine Challenge in Patients with Respiratory Symptoms. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., 94:77-87, 1994.
4. Richerson, H.B., Coon, J.D., and Lubaroff, D.: Adoptive Transfer of Experimental Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis in the LEW Rat. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., 151:1205-10, 1995.
5. Creticos, P.S., Reed, C.E., Norman, P.S., Khoury, J., Adkinson, N.F., Buncher, C.R., Busse, W.W., Bush, R.K., Gadde, J., Li, J.T., Richerson, H.B., Rosenthal, R.R., Solomon, W.R., Steinberg, P., and Yunginger, J.W.: Ragweed Immunotherapy in Adult Asthma. N. Engl. J. Med., 334:501-506, 1996.

Books and/or Chapters

1. Richerson, H.: Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis. In: Organic Dusts: Exposure. Effects, and Prevention, R. Rylander and R.R. Jacobs (Eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1994, pp. 139-160.
2. Hunninghake, G.W., and Richerson, H.B.: Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Eosinophilic Pneumonias. In: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed., A.S. Fauci, E. Braunwald, K.J. Isselbacher, J.D. Wilson, J.B. Martin, D.L. Kasper, S.L. Hauser, D.L. Longo (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, New York 1998, pp. 1426-1429.
3. Fieselmann, J.F., and Richerson H.B.: Respiratory Diseases. In: Medical Immunology, 10th ea., F.P. Stites, A.I. Terr, T.G. Parslow (Eds.), Appleton & Lange, Stamford, CT, 2001, pp. 535-547.

Links of Interest

• Community of Science Profile

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