Objectives: The key objectives of this study are to better understand and track the trends and dynamics affecting the supply, demand, distribution, and training of allergy and immunology physicians in the United States.

Program Dates: September 1998 - Present

Staff: Gaetano Forte (Program Manager), Paul Wing*, Edward Salsberg*, Mark Beaulieu*, Bonnie Quickenton*, Karilyn Puccio*, Simon Balint*, Vicki Myers*, Michael Ayers*

Components: Since 1998, the Center has tracked the evolution of the allergy and immunology physician workforce via:

Analyses of historical data from the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

A survey of 6,200 physicians providing allergy and immunology services in 1999

Annual surveys of allergy and immunology fellowship program directors and fellows completing training, 1999-2002

A survey of random sample of second year internal medicine and pediatrics residents, 2001

An online panel survey of a random sample of physicians providing allergy and immunology services, 2001-2003

A survey of approximately 5,000 physicians providing allergy and immunology services in the summer of 2004

Development and maintenance of a model to forecast the supply of and demand for allergy and immunology physicians

A survey of all allergy and immunology fellowship program directors on the allergy and immunology academic workforce in 2007/2008

Reports/Presentations:

Forte GJ. Forecasting Allergy and Immunology Physician Supply and Demand through 2024. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. June 2006.

Forte GJ. Physicians Providing Allergy and Immunology Services 2004. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. August 2005.

Forte GJ and Salsberg ES. Use of Nonphysician Providers and the Allergy/Immunology Physician Marketplace: A Summary of Responses to an IBIS Panel Survey. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 2004.

Beaulieu M, Forte G, and Salsberg ES. Volunteerism and the Allergist/Immunologist Physician Marketplace: A Summary of Responses to an IBIS Panel Survey. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 2003.

Beaulieu M, Forte GJ, and Salsberg ES. Allergy and Immunology GME Surveys 2002. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. January 2003.

Puccio K, Forte GJ, Beaulieu M, Ayers M, and Salsberg ES. Specialty Choices Among Second Year Medicine and Pediatric Residents. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 2002.

Forte GJ, Puccio K, Beaulieu M, and Salsberg ES. Allergy and Immunology GME Surveys 2001. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 2002.

Forte GJ and Salsberg ES. Managed Care and Allergy and Immunology Practice. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. February 2001.

Forte GJ and Salsberg ES. Allergy and Immunology GME Surveys 2000. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. January 2001.

Forte GJ, Salsberg ES, Wing P, Beaulieu M, and Myers V. The Allergy and Immunology Physician Workforce 2000. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. June 2000.

Forte GJ, Salsberg ES, Beaulieu M, and Wing P. Physicians Providing Allergy and Immunology Services in the United States: The Results of the Survey of Physicians Providing Allergy and Immunology Services in the United States in 1999. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. March 2000.

Forte GJ, Salsberg ES, Beaulieu M, Wing P. The Supply, Demand and Distribution of Allergists and Immunologists in the United States: A Descriptive Analysis. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany. May 1999.

Sponsor: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Milwaukee, WI

* Not currently on CHWS staff