Dr. Frank Lichtenberger MD, PhD – Is a practicing Allergist/Immunology in Iredell county North Carolina, shareholder of the large multispecialty group Piedmont Healthcare, and is a Trustee of the County health System and chairs several committees there. He is a graduate of the Ohio State College of Medicine and Public Heath Medical Scientist program, during which time he studied the pathways of chronic inflammation in the lung leading to his PhD. After Medical School, he completed Residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern. Finally completing his advanced training in Allergy/Immunology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland where he studied in the Laboratory of Mast Cell biology. (New Paragraph) He has an active involvement in the local Hospital Community and follows his patient during any inpatient phase. With a large contingent of Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiency patient, he also has a dedicated half day each week to difficult cases including systemic mast cytosis, and Ehlers-Danlos with secondary symptoms of mast cell activation. (New Paragraph) Active research interests include development of serologic tests for improved diagnostics of mast cell related disease as well as active treatment of allergic contact dermatitis in chronic wound healing.