Michael A. Kaliner, MD

Management Team: Strategic Pharmaceutical Advisors

Christos S. Efessiou, PhD - Michael A. Kaliner, MD - William W. Storms, MD

Michael A. Kaliner, MD


Telephone: 202.965.2288
Email: mkaliner@SRxA.com

Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)

Michael Kaliner is Medical Director of the Institute for Asthma and Allergy in Chevy Chase and Wheaton, MD. Among his achievements, Dr. Kaliner has been Head of Allergic Diseases and the Training Program Director of Allergy and Immunology at the National Institutes of Health; President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; Chairman of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology; a member of the Executive Committee of the Joint Council of Allergy and Immunology, President of the Allergy and Immunology Section of the American Thoracic Society; and President of the World Allergy Organization. In 2004, he co-founded Strategic Pharmaceutical Advisors, a professional pharmaceutical consulting company.

An avid teacher and researcher, Dr. Kaliner has published more than 475 articles, reviews, and books relating to allergies, sinusitis, and asthma. He has edited magazines for patients, such as Breathe Well, which he created, and for physicians, such as The Current Report on Asthma and Allergy, which he also created. He has been Editor or on the Editorial Boards of many allergy and asthma journals, including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, E-medicine, and the Journal of the World Allergy Organization.

Among his favorite activities is meeting and talking with fellow allergists. He is well on his way toward achieving his life time ambition of meeting every allergist in the USA. Dr. Kaliner was Head of the Allergy and Asthma Program at the National Institutes of Health for 18 years before founding the Institute for Asthma and Allergy, which is a state-of-the-art research and clinical program designed for difficult-to-manage patients in the mid-Atlantic area of the United States .

Dr. Kaliner is recognized on the “Best Doctor” lists of The Best Doctors in America, American Health Magazine, Clinical Guide to Top Doctors, America’s Top Doctors, and The Washingtonian Magazine. In 1995, he received the Gold Key Award from the University of Maryland Medical School as their outstanding alumnus.

In 2006 he will be honored as the recipient of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s Distinguished Clinician Award. Dr. Kaliner earned his MD from the University of Maryland and did his post-graduate training at the Hospital of the University of Maryland, the University of California in San Francisco, and Harvard University School of Medicine.

He is married to Jean Andrews Kaliner and has three children: Aaron, Matthew and Leslie.