Dr. Peter W. Heymann M.D.
Allergist and Immunologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Allergy/Immunology
Uva Primary Care Ctr Lee Street Charlottesville VA, 22908Rating
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About
Dr. Peter Heymann practices Pediatric Allergy Medicine in Charlottesville, VA. A pediatric allergist/immunologist finds and treats allergies and immune system problems that child patients suffer from. Dr. Heymann treats the reactions caused by pet dander, pollen, dust, mold spores, insect stings, food, and medications; those reactions include asthma, hay fever, hives, eczema, or a very severe and unusual reaction called anaphylaxis.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD- 1979
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus in wheezing children requiring emergency care. IgE and eosinophil analyses.
- The relevance of allergen exposure to the development of asthma in childhood.
- Salivary cotinine levels in children presenting with wheezing to an emergency department.
- Specific and nonspecific obstructive lung disease in childhood: causes of changes in the prevalence of asthma.
- Detection of IgA and IgG but not IgE antibody to respiratory syncytial virus in nasal washes and sera from infants with wheezing.
- Experimental rhinovirus challenges in adults with mild asthma: response to infection in relation to IgE.
- Environmental factors influencing allergy and asthma.
- Role of viral infections, atopy and antiviral immunity in the etiology of wheezing exacerbations among children and young adults.
- Conformational stability of B cell epitopes on group I and group II Dermatophagoides spp. allergens. Effect of thermal and chemical denaturation on the binding of murine IgG and human IgE antibodies.
- Benzyl benzoate moist powder: investigation of acaricidal [correction of acarical] activity in cultures and reduction of dust mite allergens in carpets.
- Airborne dust mite allergens: comparison of group II allergens with group I mite allergen and cat-allergen Fel d I.
- Epidemiology of the relationship between exposure to indoor allergens and asthma.
- Pro: The evidence for a causal role of dust mites in asthma.
- Risk of childhood asthma in relation to the timing of early child care exposures.
- Recent progress in mite allergen immunochemistry.
Awards
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1976 Alpha Omega Alpha
- 1998 The Best Doctors in America
Fellowships
- Allergy/Asthma/Clinical Immunology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA 1987
- Ambulatory Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston Pediatric
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