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Leonard B. Bacharier, MD

Specialty Areas
Pediatric Allergy
Pediatric Pulmonary Disease
Cystic Fibrosis

Areas of Clinical Interest
Asthma in children, allergy and lung disease in children, immunology

Patients must be referred by a physician.

Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Honors and Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2005 - 2008 (Best Doctors, Inc)

2005 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Selected Publications

Panettieri RA, Covar R, Grant E, Hillyer EV, Bacharier L. Natural history of asthma: persistence versus progression - does the beginning predict the end? J Allergy Clin Immunol 2008; 122:607-13

Bacharier LB. Pharmacologic management of asthma in preschool children with inhaled corticosteroids and leukotriene receptor antagonists. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2008; 8:158-62

Bacharier LB, Boner A, Carlsen K-H, Eigenmann PA, Frischer T, Gotz M, Helms PJ, Hunt J, Liu A, Papadopoulos N, Platts-Mills T, Pohunek P, Simons FER, Valvorita E, Wahn U, Wildhaber, The European Pediatric Asthma Group. Diagnosis and treatment of asthma in childhood: a PRACTALL census report. Allergy 2008; 63:5-34

Elizur A, Bacharier LB, Strunk RC. Pediatric asthma admissions: chronic severity and acute exacerbations. J Asthma 2007; 44:285-9

Bacharier LB, Phillips BR, Bloomberg GR, Zeiger RS, Paul IM, Krawiec M, Guilbert T, Chinchilli VM, and Strunk RC, for the Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Severe intermittent wheezing in preschool children: a distinct phenotype. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007; 119:604-10

Horner CC, Bacharier LB. Management approaches to intermittent wheezing in young children. Curr Opinion Allergy Immunol 2007; 7:180-4

Moore W, Bleecker ER, Curran-Everett D, Erzurum SC, Ameredes BT, Bacharier L, Calhoun WJ, Castro M, Chung KF, Clark MP, Dweik RA, Fitzpatrick AM, Gaston B, Hew M, Hussain I, Jarjour NN, Israel E, Levy BD, Murphy JR, Peters SP, Teague WG, Meyers DA, Busse WW, and Wenzel SE, for the National Heart Lung Blood Institute’s Severe Asthma Research Program. Characterization of the Severe Asthma Phenotype by the NHLBI Severe Asthma Research Program. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007; 119:405-13

Sorkness CA, Lemanske RF, Mauger DT, Boehmer SJ, Chinchilli VM, Martinez FD, Strunk RC, Szefler SH, Zeiger RS, Bacharier LB, Bloomberg GR, Covar RA, Guilbert TW, Heldt G, Larsen G, Mellon MH, Morgan WJ, Moss MH, Spahn JD, Taussig LM.  Long-Term Comparison of Three Controller Regimens for Mild-Moderate Persistent Childhood Asthma:  The Pediatric Asthma Controller Trial (PACT).  J Allergy Clin Immunol 2007; 119: 64-72

Guilbert TW, Morgan WJ, Zeiger RS, Mauger DT, Boehmer SJ, Szefler SJ, Bacharier LB, Lemanske RF, Strunk RC, Allen DB, Bloomberg GR, Heldt G, Karwiec M, Larsen G, Liu AH, Chinchilli VM, Sorkness CA, Taussig LM, Martinez FD.  Two Year Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment on Subsequent Asthma in High-Risk Toddlers.  New Engl J Med 2006;354:1985-97

Leonard B. Bacharier, MD