Allergy & Immunology

Penn Allergy & Immunology Faculty

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Patricia A Takach

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care)
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Section of Allergy and Immunology
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
3737 Market Street, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-2775
Fax: 215-615-5055
Education:
BA (Anthropology)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, 1991.
MD (Medicine)
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, 1999.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, 1999-2000.
Resident, Internal Medicine, MCP-Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2002.
Fellow, Allergy and Immunology, State University of New York Stony Brook Hospital, Stony Brook, NY, 2002-2004.
Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2002.
American Board of Allergy and Immunology, 2005.
American Board of Allergy and Immunology, Recertifciation, 2015.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2016.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2017.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2018.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2019.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2020.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2021.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2022.
ABAI, maintenance of certification, 2023.
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Selected Publications

Bhavya Ancha; Gregory Troutman, MD, MBE; Thomas Vazquez, MD; Timothy Buckey, MD, MBE; Patricia Takach, MD; Zsofia Szep, MD; Katharine Bar, MD: A Case of Refractory Monkeypox, Food Insecurity, and Questionable Sulfa Allergy. Abstracts from the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. J GEN INTERN MED 38 (Suppl 2), 81–799 (2023) 38(2), June 2023.

Korin Miller: The Real Reason Allergies Can Make You Feel So Tired, According to Doctors. Yahoo Life, Interview May 2022.

Kahn, Benjamin BA1; Apostolidis, Sokratis A. MD2,3; Bhatt, Vatsal MD4; Greenplate, Allison R. PhD3,5,6; Kallish, Staci DO7; LaCava, Anthony MD8; Lucas, Alfredo BA1; Meyer, Nuala J. MD, MS8; Negoianu, Dan MD9; Ogdie, Alexis R. MD, MSCE2; Shashaty, Michael G. S. MD, MSCE8; Takach, Patricia A. MD8; Zuroff, Leah MD, MS10; Wherry, E. John PhD3,5,6; Anesi, George L. MD, MSCE, MBE8 : Multisystem Inflammation and Organ Dysfunction After BNT162b2 Messenger RNA Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination. Critical Care Explorations 3(11): e0578, November 2021.

Korin Miller: Here’s why your allergies seem worse this fall. Yahoo Life, interview September 2021.

Anthony Lacava,MD, Patricia Takach, MD: Persistent Pityriasis Lichenoides Chronica following MMR Vaccination. E Poster. AAAAI Annual Scientific Meeting 2021. 2021.

Le Coz C, Bengsch B, Khanna C, Trofa M, Ohtani T, Nolan BE, Henrickson SE, Lambert MP, Kim TO, Despotovic JM, Feldman S, Fadugba OO, Takach P, Ruffner M, Jyonouchi S, Heimall J, Sullivan KE, Wherry EJ, Romberg N.: Common variable immunodeficiency-associated endotoxemia promotes early commitment to the T follicular lineage. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 144(6): 1660-1673, Dec 2019.

Romberg N, Le Coz C, Glauzy S, Schickel JN, Trofa M, Nolan BE, Paessler M, LuQing Xu M, Lambert M, Lakhani SA, Khokha MK, Jyonouchi S, Heimall J, Takach P, Maglione PJ, Catanzaro J, Hsu FI, Sullivan KE, Cunningham-Rundles C, Meffre E.: Patients with common variable immunodeficiency with autoimmune cytopenias exhibit hyperplastic yet inefficient germinal center responses. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 143(1): 258-265, January 2019.

Kathleen Y. Wang, Huang KH, Takach P, Fadugba O, Apter A, Kelsen J, Jyonouchi S, Sullivan K , MD, PhD, FAAAAI: An Adult with Enteritis and Hypogammaglobulinemia Found to Have Heterozygous STXBP2 Mutation. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology February 2017 Notes: Poster presentation.

Ganetsky A1, Takach PA2, Lynch DM3, Krause TM4, Teh JS2, Stadtmauer EA5, Castells M3, Weiss BM5.: Melphalan desensitization following immediate hypersensitivity in a patient undergoing conditioning for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2016 May-Jun;4(3):555-6. 4(3): 555-556, May-June 2016.

Monica Bhagat, MD, Joshua A. Steinberg, MD, Frank Silvestry, MD, Lea Surrey, MD, Andrea J. Apter, MD MA MSc FAAAAI, Patricia A. Takach, MD FAAAAI, Benjamin P. Soule, MD : Suspected Non-Infectious Prosthetic Valve Inflammatory Dehiscence In X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2014 Notes: Poster (5204) presented at Annual Meeting of American Academy of Allergy, Asthmaa nd Immunology, 2014; tenative publication.

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Last updated: 02/05/2024
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