Professor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania
Allergy & Immunology
Dr. Andrea J. Apter, MD
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Andrea J. Apter, MD practices Allergy & Immunology. He attended Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He over the years received 4 awards: "Philadelphia Magazine", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FAAAAI)". Andrea Apter is a published physician as well. He has 100 publications published. The latest was: The child suicide potential scale: inter-rater reliability and validity in Israeli in-patient adolescents. He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Exome Sequencing of Filaggrin and Related genes in African-American Children with Atopic Dermatitis.
- Thymic stromal lymphopoietin variation, filaggrin loss of function, and the persistence of atopic dermatitis.
- Can Patient Portals Reduce Health Disparities? A Perspective from Asthma.
- "No Other Choice": Reasons for Emergency Department Utilization Among Urban Adults With Acute Asthma.
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment in 2013.
- Filaggrin-2 variation is associated with more persistent atopic dermatitis in African American subjects.
- Racial comparison of filaggrin null mutations in Asthmatic patients with atopic dermatitis in a US population.
- The association of health literacy with adherence and outcomes in moderate-severe Asthma.
- Asthma and frequency of wheeze: risk factors for the persistence of atopic dermatitis in children.
- Allergen immunotherapy: Much more than a shot in the dark.
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment in 2012: potential therapeutics and gene-environment interactions.
- Reliability and validity of genotyping filaggrin null mutations.
- An Analysis of Contextual Information Relevant to Medical Care Unexpectedly Volunteered to Researchers by Asthma Patients.
- Safety of saxagliptin: rationale for and design of a series of postmarketing observational studies.
- Early exposure to allergen: is this the cat's meow, or are we barking up the wrong tree?
- Qualitative research-enhanced understanding of patients' beliefs: results of focus groups with low-income, urban, African American adults with Asthma.
- Modifiable barriers to adherence to inhaled steroids among adults with Asthma: it's not just black and white.
- A 65-year-old woman with intractable nasal congestion.
- Advances in adult and pediatric Asthma.
- Is there cross-reactivity between penicillins and cephalosporins?
- Validation of a beta-agonist long-term Asthma control scale derived from computerized pharmacy data.
- The controller-to-total Asthma medication ratio is associated with patient-centered as well as utilization outcomes.
- Development and validation of a medication intensity scale derived from computerized pharmacy data that predicts emergency hospital utilization for persistent Asthma.
- Reacting to antibiotic allergies.
- Asthma numeracy skill and health literacy.
- Unconventional risk factors: another pathway to understanding health disparities.
- Advances in adult Asthma 2006: its risk factors, course, and management.
- Patients with Asthma who do not fill their inhaled corticosteroids: a study of primary nonadherence.
- Advances in the care of adults with Asthma and allergy in 2007.
- Clinical and genetic risk factors of self-reported penicillin allergy.
- Mind the widening gap: have improvements in Asthma care increased Asthma disparities?
- Numeracy and communication with patients: they are counting on us.
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment and health outcomes, education, delivery, and quality in 2008.
- Linking numeracy and Asthma-related quality of life.
- Adolescents and Asthma: why bother with our meds?
- Eliminating health disparities: what have we done and what do we do next?
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment in 2009.
- Absence of cross-reactivity between sulfonamide antibiotics and sulfonamide nonantibiotics.
- Represcription of penicillin after Allergic-like events.
- Gaining insight into patients' beliefs using qualitative research methodologies.
- Adherence logger for a dry powder inhaler: a new device for medical adherence research.
- Stratifying medical and pharmaceutical administrative claims as a method to identify pediatric Asthma patients in a Medicaid managed care organization.
- Clinical advances in adult Asthma.
- Improving pediatric Asthma control among minority children participating in medicaid: providing practice redesign support to deliver a chronic care model.
- Exposure to community violence is associated with Asthma hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
- Clearing clinical barriers: enhancing social support using a patient navigator for Asthma care.
- A call for action: Comparative effectiveness research in Asthma.
- Communities and health: the case of inner-city violence and Asthma.
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment and HEDQ in 2010.
- Obtaining DNA in the mail from a national sample of children with a Chronic non-fatal illness.
- Problem solving to improve adherence and Asthma outcomes in urban adults with moderate or severe Asthma: a randomized controlled trial.
- Advances in adult Asthma diagnosis and treatment and health outcomes, education, delivery, and quality in 2011: what goes around comes around.
- Self-management programmes for COPD: moving forward.
- Relationship of validated psychometric tools to subsequent medical utilization for Asthma.
- Influences of earlier adherence and symptoms on current symptoms: a marginal structural models analysis.
- Relationships among quality of life, severity, and control measures in Asthma: an evaluation using factor analysis.
- Steroid phobia and adherence--problems, solutions, impact on benefit/risk profile.
- Improved Asthma outcomes from allergy specialist care: a population-based cross-sectional analysis.
- The influence of health disparities on individual patient outcomes: what is the link between genes and environment?
- Direct clinician-to-patient feedback discussion of inhaled steroid use: its effect on adherence.
- Advances in pediatric and adult Asthma.
- Test of an interactive voice response intervention to improve adherence to controller medications in adults with Asthma.
- Adherence intervention research: what have we learned and what do we do next?
- The effect of inhaled albuterol in moderate to severe Asthma.
- Demographic predictors of Asthma treatment site: outpatient, inpatient, or emergency department.
- The influence of demographic and socioeconomic factors on health-related quality of life in Asthma.
- Common measures of Asthma severity lack association for describing its clinical course.
- Treating Asthma by the guidelines: developing a medication management information system for use in primary care.
- Testing the reliability of old and new features of a new electronic monitor for metered dose inhalers.
- Adherence with twice-daily dosing of inhaled steroids. Socioeconomic and health-belief differences.
- Assessing the quality of Asthma care provided to Medicaid patients enrolled in managed care organizations in Connecticut.
- Perception of airway obstruction in Asthma: sequential daily analyses of symptoms, peak expiratory flow rate, and mood.
- Mood states associated with transitory changes in Asthma symptoms and peak expiratory flow.
- Validity of psychiatric diagnoses in patients with substance use disorders: is the interview more important than the interviewer?
- Referred for management of mastocytosis.
- Outcomes of pregnancy in adolescents with severe Asthma.
- Olfactory loss and Allergic rhinitis.
- An approach to immunologic reactions associated with plasma exchange.
- Epidemiology of the sick building syndrome.
- Problems encountered in improving care for inner-city children with Asthma.
- Osteoporosis in the corticosteroid-treated patient with Asthma.
- Fluctuations of serum IgA and its subclasses in Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
- Allergic rhinitis and olfactory loss.
- Fluctuating olfactory sensitivity and distorted odor perception in Allergic rhinitis.
- How do you diagnose latex allergy?
- How is anaphylaxis recognized?
- Allergy consultation in the management of atopic dermatitis.
- Personality disorders and associated features in cocaine-dependent inpatients.
- Case control and family-based studies of tryptophan hydroxylase gene A218C polymorphism and suicidality in adolescents.
- Child and adolescent psychiatry in Israel--towards the millennium.
- Defense mechanisms in risk of suicide and risk of violence.
- Asthma in the elderly: a brief report.
- Hyperacusis in Williams syndrome: characteristics and associated neuroaudiologic abnormalities.
- Correlation of suicidal and violent behavior in different diagnostic categories in hospitalized adolescent patients.
- Fears of death in suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents.
- The child suicide potential scale: inter-rater reliability and validity in Israeli in-patient adolescents.
- Psychometric properties of the K-SADS-PL in an Israeli adolescent clinical population.
- Suicidal adolescents and ego defense mechanisms.
- The sociocultural theory in the development of anorexia nervosa.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
Northwestern University
Procedures Preformed
- Allergy Shots
- Allergy Skin Testing
Conditions Treated
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Angioedema
- Asthma
- Chronic Sinusitis
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Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Allergy
- Immunology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Personal Choice PPO
- Regional Pref Network EPO
- Regional Pref Network HMO
- Regional Pref Network HMO+
- Regional Pref Network POS+
- Regional Pref Network PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Delaware PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthPartners
- Community Blue PPO
- Direct Access
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Keystone Health Plan East HMO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- Freedom Plan
- QualCare HMO
- QualCare PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- Oxford Liberty
- United Healthcare
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- Philadelphia Magazine
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FAAAAI)
Education
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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1164454419 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | APTER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ANDREA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 191044206 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Allergy/Immunology | |
| Total Claim Count | 222.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1164454419 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | APTER |
| First Name Of The Provider | ANDREA |
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