Director, Medical Affairs Merck and Co. Inc.
Allergy & Immunology
Dr. Michael Blaiss, MD
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Michael Blaiss practices Allergy & Immunology. He attended University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He received awards:"Fellow (FAAAAI)" and "Top MD". Michael Blaiss is a published physician. He has 97 publications published. The most current publication "Anaphylaxis in children." Michael Blaiss is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Consumer attitudes on cough and cold: US (ACHOO) survey results.
- Current Allergic Rhinitis Experiences Survey (CARES): Health-care practitioners' awareness, attitudes and practices.
- Ocular and nasal allergy symptom burden in America: The Allergies, Immunotherapy, and RhinoconjunctivitiS (AIRS) surveys.
- The Allergies, Immunotherapy, and RhinoconjunctivitiS (AIRS) survey: Patients' experience with allergen immunotherapy.
- Diagnosis and treatment of nasal and ocular allergies: the Allergies, Immunotherapy, and RhinoconjunctivitiS (AIRS) surveys.
- Intranasal corticosteroids topical characteristics: Side effects, formulation, and volume.
- Over-the-counter intranasal corticosteroids: why the time is now. Pro.
- Efficacy and safety of the SQ-standardized grass allergy immunotherapy tablet in mono- and polysensitized subjects.
- Current standards and future directions in immunotherapy: perspectives on challenges and opportunities for the allergist.
- Safety update regarding intranasal corticosteroids for the treatment of allergic rhinitis.
- Is there a role for aerosol nasal sprays in the treatment of allergic rhinitis: a white paper.
- Efficacy and safety of timothy grass allergy immunotherapy tablets in North American children and adolescents.
- Allergic rhinitis: Direct and indirect costs.
- The Childhood Asthma Control Test: retrospective determination and clinical validation of a cut point to identify children with very poorly controlled asthma.
- Quality of care of asthma during pregnancy.
- Randomized trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of combination budesonide and formoterol and new FDA mandate regarding LABAs.
- Evaluating approved medications to treat allergic rhinitis in the United States: an evidence-based review of efficacy for nasal symptoms by class.
- Should clinicians routinely determine rhinitis subtype on initial diagnosis and evaluation? A debate among experts.
- Burden of allergic rhinitis: results from the Pediatric Allergies in America survey.
- Mastocytic enterocolitis: a newly described mast cell entity.
- Evolving paradigm in the management of allergic rhinitis-associated ocular symptoms: role of intranasal corticosteroids.
- Patient and healthcare-provider perspectives on the burden of allergic rhinitis.
- Pediatric allergic rhinitis: physical and mental complications.
- Pay for performance for the allergist-immunologist: potential promise and problems.
- Part II: Inhaler technique and adherence to therapy.
- Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: burden of Disease.
- Safety considerations of intranasal corticosteroids for the treatment of allergic rhinitis.
- Selecting the optimal oral antihistamine for patients with allergic rhinitis.
- Expanding choices in intranasal steroid therapy: summary of a roundtable meeting.
- Diphenhydramine vs desloratadine comparisons must consider risk-benefit ratio.
- Concerns about intranasal corticosteroids for over-the-counter use: position statement of the Joint Task Force for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunolo...
- Epidemiology and pathophysiology of immunoglobulin E-mediated asthma.
- What are the best estimates of pediatric asthma control?
- Allergic fungal sinusitis in children.
- Expanding the evidence base for the medical treatment of nasal polyposis.
- Asthma Disease management: a critical analysis.
- Outcomes in pediatric asthma.
- Antihistamines: treatment selection criteria for pediatric seasonal allergic rhinitis.
- Rhinitis-asthma connection: epidemiologic and pathophysiologic basis.
- Allergic rhinitis and impairment issues in schoolchildren: a consensus report.
- Development of questionnaires to measure patient preferences for intranasal corticosteroids in patients with allergic rhinitis.
- Current concepts and therapeutic strategies for allergic rhinitis in school-age children.
- Are inhaled corticosteroids safe in pregnancy?
- The utility of the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) asthma measure to predict asthma-related outcomes.
- Managing asthma during pregnancy. The whys and hows of aggressive control.
- What can we do NOW?
- Important aspects in management of allergic rhinitis: compliance, cost, and quality of life.
- Management of rhinitis and asthma in pregnancy.
- First do no harm: managing antihistamine impairment in patients with allergic rhinitis.
- Pediatric asthma Disease management programs--do they work?
- Inhaled steroids and asthma.
- Medical and economic dimensions linking allergic rhinitis and asthma.
- Cost-effectiveness of H1-antihistamines.
- Immunotherapy for asthma.
- The efficacy and safety of the Timothy grass allergy sublingual immunotherapy tablet in Canadian adults and children.
- Current status of sublingual immunotherapy in the United States.
- ICON: Chronic rhinosinusitis.
- Nasal allergies in the Asian-Pacific population: results from the Allergies in Asia-Pacific Survey.
- Asthma management and control in the United States: Results of the 2009 Asthma Insight and Management survey.
- Asthma burden in the United States: Results of the 2009 Asthma Insight and Management survey.
- Patient and physician asthma deterioration terminology: Results from the 2009 Asthma Insight and Management survey.
- Comparison of the Asthma in America and Asthma Insight and Management surveys: Did asthma burden and care improve in the United States between 1998 and 2009?
- The CHOICE survey: high rates of persistent and uncontrolled asthma in the United States.
- Comprehensive report of olopatadine 0.6% nasal spray as treatment for children with seasonal allergic rhinitis.
- Management of rhinitis: allergic and non-allergic.
- Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008 update (in collaboration with the World Health Organization, GA(2)LEN and AllerGen).
- Development and implementation of guidelines in allergic rhinitis – an ARIA-GA2LEN paper.
- Unmet needs in asthma: Global Asthma Physician and Patient (GAPP) Survey: global adult findings.
- Pharmacologic therapy for the treatment of asthma in children.
- The role of outcome studies in allergy and clinical immunology.
- Airway fluoroscopic diagnosis of vocal cord dysfunction syndrome.
- Outcomes analysis in asthma.
- Aerosols and delivery devices in asthma management.
- Anaphylaxis in children.
- Quality of life in allergic rhinitis.
- Cognitive, social, and economic costs of allergic rhinitis.
- Toward optimal health: the experts respond to allergies. Interviews conducted by Jodi Godfrey Meisler.
- Impact of changes in asthma severity on health-related quality of life in pediatric and adult asthma patients: results from the asthma outcomes monitoring system.
- Quality-of-life outcomes measures of asthma and allergic rhinitis.
- A new tool for monitoring asthma outcomes: the ITG Asthma Short Form.
- Complementary/alternative medicine in the treatment of asthma.
- Measuring outcomes in pediatric asthma.
- Efficacy, safety, and patient preference of inhaled nasal corticosteroids: a review of pertinent published data.
- Role of immunoglobulin subclasses and specific antibody determinations in the evaluation of recurrent infection in children.
- Prevalence of latex sensitivity in children evaluated for inhalant allergy.
- Food allergy in childhood.
- Proving penicillin allergy.
- Anaphylaxis to cabbage: detection of allergens.
- Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol: hematologic and immunologic effects.
- How helpful is the radioallergosorbent test in the diagnosis of allergic Disease?
- Occipital headache as a manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
- Cell-mediated immune status of children with recurrent infection.
- Exercise-induced asthma and the athlete.
- Why outcomes?
- A seven-year-old boy with sinusitis, otitis media, and asthma.
- New pharmacologic agents in the treatment of asthma.
Schools
University Of Tennessee Health Science Center College Of Medicine
University Tenn
Ochsner Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Allergy Skin Testing
Conditions Treated
- Bronchitis
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
- Allergy
- Immunology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Network S
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health Care
- Coventry Health Care of Tennessee PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Qualchoice PPO
- Simplifi
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Fellow (FAAAAI)
- Top MD
Education
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Ochsner Clinic Foundation -
University of Tennessee -
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Tennessee Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1891720108 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BLAISS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | MICHAEL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 381381746 | |
| NPPES Provider State | TN | |
| Specialty Description | Allergy/Immunology | |
| Total Claim Count | 336.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1891720108 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BLAISS |
| First Name Of The Provider | MICHAEL |
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