Dr. Robert Schleimer, Ph.D has been the Roy and Elaine Patterson endowed Professor of Medicine and Chief of Division of Allergy & Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois since 2004. Dr. Schleimer is consulting, among others, with Millenium Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, GSK, and Aventis. He serves as Chairman of the Lung Cell and Molecular Immunology Study Section and the Severe Asthma Research Program Study Section