Robert F. Lemanske, Jr., MD
Head, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Professor of Pediatrics Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Robert F. Lemanske, Jr., MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, where he is Head of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology. He received his degree in medicine from the University of Wisconsin Medical School (1975) and his pediatric residency training at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals (1975-78).  His allergy and immunology training was performed both at the University of Wisconsin (1978-80) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland (1980-83). He is Board certified in both Pediatrics and Allergy and Immunology. He served as the director of the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital from 1990-2002.

Dr. Lemanske has published his research in the Journal of Immunology, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatric Research, Journal of Pediatrics, American Review of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Immunology.  In addition, he has co-edited  two  textbooks and contributed over 50 chapters to various textbooks.  Dr. Lemanske has been a national and international speaker on numerous occasions and has received honorary lectureships including the John M. Sheldon, MD (AAAAI) and Richard Talamo, MD (Johns Hopkins University) memorial lectureships, and the Sheldon Siegel, MD lectureship (AAAAI) twice (1992, 2003).  He has served on the editorial Boards of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, and was a director (1994-2000) and Chair (2000) of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology. He is a past Chair of the Dermatology Interest Section of the AAAAI, and elected and served on the Board of Directors of the AAAAI from 2001-2004. He also served on the expert panel for the development of guidelines for the treatment of childhood asthma in Canada and the United States (National Asthma Education and Prevention Program) (NAEPP). He was recently chosen to serve on the newly formed NAEPP panel to reevaluate the current version of the NHLBI guidelines for asthma, and was appointed to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s Advisory Council for decisions regarding extramural funding of basic and clinical research.

While a Fellow of both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Lemanske is also a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American Association of Immunologists, and the Society for Pediatric Research.  Honors Dr. Lemanske has received include the NIAID Allergic Disease Academic Award, membership in the Society for Pediatric Research, one of nine current principal investigators of the Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN) (sponsored by  the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute), and one of six current principal investigators of the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network (also sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute).  He has also been listed as one of the best 100 doctors in America by American Health Magazine and selected as one of the Best Doctors in America numerous times.  His research interests have focused primarily on the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma including mechanisms underlying pulmonary late phase reactions, virus-induced airway dysfunction, and asthma inception in infants and young children.