The Allergy and Immunology Department provides complete allergy history and physical examination; immunotherapy vaccines; and a full range of allergy testing and asthma care training for families and caregivers. The department also offers full evaluation of patients with recurrent or unusual infections or family history of immunodeficiency disorders. The evaluation includes laboratory evaluations of complement, phagocytes, T and B cell quantitation and function, quantitation of all immunoglobulin classes and function studies.

 

Other services provided are the evaluation and management of primary immunodeficency disorders and allergic diseases – including conditions affecting the respiratory tract (asthma, bronchitis, croup, allergic rhinitis, chronic serous media); skin (urticaria, angioedema, eczema); gastrointestinal tract (vomiting, colic, diarrhea); systemic anaphylaxis; food allergies and behavior disorders suspected to be caused by foods or food additives and coloring.

Ricardo U. Sorensen, MD
Staff, Allergy/Immunology, Children's Hospital

Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center

 

Professional School:
University of Chile School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile
Specialty Training:
Pediatric Immunology
Special Interests:
Recurrent infections, primary immunodeficiency disorders,
pneumococcal vaccines

 

In Area Since: 1989

In Practice Since: 1964

 

 

 

Cleveland Moore, MD
Staff, Allergy/Immunology, Children's Hospital

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Head, Division of Allergy/Immunology, 
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

Professional School:
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Specialty Training:
Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology
Special Interests:
Management of chronic asthma, atopic dermatitis, immunology of sickle cell disease

 

In Area Since: 1992

In Practice Since: 1981

 

 

Augusto C. Ochoa, MD
Staff, Allergy/Immunology, Children's Hospital

Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy 
LSU Health Sciences Center

Professional School:
Universidad de Antioquia, Columbia
University of Minnesota
National Cancer Institute, Washington D.C.
Specialty Training:
Allergy/Immunology
Special Interests:
Allergies to food, Asthma, Immodeficiencies

 

In Area Since: 2000

In Practice Since: 1982

 

 

 

Kenneth Paris, MD, MPH
Staff, Allergy/Immunology, Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center

Professional School:
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans
Specialty Training:

Brown University/Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI - Pediatrics
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans - Allergy/Immunology fellowship
Special Interests:
Primary Immunodeficiency, asthma, atopic dermatitis

 

In Area Since: 2004

In Practice Since: 2000