Elena Resnick
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130 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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Huh, this patient told me they were allergic to penicillin.
Oh, it's that your mom told you when you were a kid.
Well, what happened?
Oh, you don't even know what happened?
Elena Resnick.
I'm an allergist and immunologist.
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor.
My dad's a doctor, and there was never any doubt about that.
I was lucky to have a lot of great mentors along the way.
My mentor in college, Jerry Groopman, who's up at Harvard, was very instrumental in my choices.
I worked in his lab for four years.
Applied to medical school, thought I wanted to be a hematologist oncologist like him, explored that field.
And later into my residency, I explored allergy immunology, which has fascinating medicine and amazing potential to make people feel better.
The immune system in particular is fascinating because we know so little about it.
It's so important, right?
We need our immune system to protect us from disease and to fight things off.
When it goes haywire, we can end up with autoimmune disease, which is where our own antibodies attack us.
Or we can end up with allergic disease, which is when different types of antibodies, IgE antibodies, react against substances that are harmless.
But if we make antibodies against them, we can run into big trouble.
Define IgE for me.
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