Fred D. Finkelman, M.D. is the McDonald Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Queens College in New York City and his M.D. from Yale University. This was followed by Internal Medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, immunology research training with William Paul in the Laboratory of Immunology at NIAID and a Rheumatology fellowship with Morris Ziff at the University of Texas, Dallas-Southwestern Medical School. He served on the faculty of the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD for 18 years, where he rose to the level of Professor and Director of the Division of Immunology, then moved 19 years ago to the University of Cincinnati, where he directed the Division of Immunology for 11 years. He served as a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Immunology for 5 years, chaired the Clinical Immunology Study Section for the Arthritis Foundation for 2 years, served as a member of the NIH HAI Study Section for 4 years, served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and as Treasurer of that organization for 2 years. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the 2009 Jerry Dolovich Memorial Lectureship from the AAAAI and the 2011 Middleton Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Finkelman has published 339 research papers and 86 reviews and been awarded 3 U.S. patents. He has been recognized as one of the 100 most-cited immunologists, with over 32,000 lifetime citations, an i10 index of 329 and an h-index of 95. He and his collaborators have used mouse models to demonstrate that IL-4 is required to induce IgE antibody responses, that IL-4, IL-13 and Stat6 are required to protect against intestinal worm parasites, that inflammatory stimuli determine whether antigen presentation by dendritic cells induces immune activation or tolerance, that IgG antibodies can both block IgE-mediated anaphylaxis and mediate anaphylaxis through a macrophage-dependent mechanism, that airway hyperresponsiveness can be induced by direct effects of IL-4 and IL-13 on smooth muscle cells and that IgE-mediated allergy can be quickly and safely suppressed in mice by rapid desensitization with anti-FceRIa monoclonal antibody. In addition, his in vivo cytokine capture assay is being increasingly used to determine evaluate in vivo cytokine production. Dr. Finkelman is particularly proud of his wife Anita, an expert in nursing education and evidence-based practice and his daughters Shoshannah and Deborah, who live in Israel where they teach and study medicine, respectively.