The Harold S. Nelson Lectureship Harold S. Nelson, MD, was born in New Britain, Connecticut and received his undergraduate degree in Economics at Harvard College. He earned his Doctor of Medicine at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He then completed an internal medicine residency at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, CA and fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, MI. He served honorably in the United States Army Medical Corps for 30 years, where he held positions including Chief of the AllergyImmunology Service and Director of the Allergy-Immunology training program at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, CO from 1971-1986. Nelson served as Consultant to The Surgeon General in Allergy and Immunology from 1981-1986. In 1986, he joined the Department of Medicine at National Jewish Medical and Research Center as Professor of Medicine there and at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. As a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Nelson has served on the Board of Directors, Editorial Board, as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Chair of the Asthma, Rhinitis and other Respiratory Diseases (ARRD) Interest Section. He is a fellow and has served on the Board of Regents of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. In addition, Nelson has served twice each on the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He has also served on the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs and Allergenic Products Advisory Committees of the Food and Drug Administration, chaired the Pulmonary/Allergy Advisory Panel of the United States Pharmacopoeia, and served on all three Expert Panels on the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma for the NHLBI and NIH. In addition, Dr Nelson has been the director of numerous CME courses, honored with several awards including the Distinguished Clinician and Distinguished Service Awards of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology as well as the James J. Waring Award of the American Lung Association of Colorado. He has authored over 165 peer-reviewed articles, some 58 reviews, 31 book chapters and delivered over 200 invited presentations. His key interests have been asthma, beta agonists, allergen immunotherapy and skin testing. 2014 marks the 14th year of the Harold Nelson Lectureship. It will be presented in Plenary Session 2101: Immunotherapy: Mechanism, Outcomes and Markers on Saturday, March 1, 2014: 08:15 AM - 09:45 AM. The Harold S. Nelson Lectureship - Linda Cox, MD FAAAAI Linda Cox, MD FAAAAI, is an allergist in solo private practice in Fort Lauderdale, a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Nova Southeastern University and an Affiliate Associate Professor of Clinical Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Board of Directors, and began her term as AAAAI President on February 25, 2013. After attending medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago, Dr. Cox received her allergy and immunology fellowship training at National Jewish Center in Colorado. Dr. Harold Nelson was her clinic faculty attending physician. Dr. Cox is past chair of many AAAAI committees, including the Immunotherapy, Allergen Standardization and Allergy Diagnostics Committee and the Immunotherapy, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Ocular diseases and Cough Interest Section. She has chaired several AAAAI/ACAAI joint task forces including the Sublingual Immunotherapy Joint Task Force, Specific-IgE test Task Force (SETTaF), and the Omalizumab Joint Task Force. Since 2006, Dr. Cox has been a member of the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters (JTFPP), and was one of the chief editors of the second and third updates of Allergen Immunotherapy: A Practice Parameter. She has promoted standardization of allergy skin testing and allergen immunotherapy practice through the work of the JTFPP and the AAAAI Immunotherapy, Allergen Standardization and Allergy Diagnostics Committee. These efforts resulted in the development of standardized allergy immunotherapy and skin test instruction and consent forms, which can be downloaded and customized from www.aaaai.org. Through the World Allergy Organization (WAO), Dr. Cox assisted in the development of a uniform grading system for subcutaneous immunotherapy systemic reactions and sublingual immunotherapy local reactions. She is current co-chair of the WAO Immunotherapy and Immunomodulator Committee and one of the editors of the WAO Sublingual Immunotherapy Position Paper update. She was a member of the FDA Allergenic Products Advisory Committee and currently serves as a consultant to this committee. Dr. Cox is a member of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology Board of Directors, and has served on several of its committees including the Maintenance of Certification and Conjoint Standards Committees. She is a past president of the Broward County Medical Association (BCMA) and the Florida Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Society. She was also a member of the Florida Medical Association Board of Governors. She has been a member of the BCMA Board of Directors since 1995 and has served as a BCMA delegate almost every year since joining the BCMA. She is also immediate past chair of the South Florida Caucus Advisory Council. Awards/Honors Dr. Cox has been honored nationally with many awards including: the 2012 AAAAI Women’s Involvement Special Recognition Award; the AAAAI President’s Award for Outstanding Leadership (as Chair of the Immunotherapy and Allergy Diagnostics Committee); the ACAAI Distinguished Service Award; and the ACAAI Woman in Allergy Award. Regionally, she received the 2010 Physician Recognition Award from the Florida Academy of Physician Assistants. Personal Dr. Cox lives in West Palm Beach with her husband of 23 years, Bob Wolfgram, and their two children, 21-year-old Elizabeth and 16-year-old Christopher. Bob also is her practice administrator and has shared the one hour commute to her Fort Lauderdale office for the past 19 years.